Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

After several efforts, Spanish troops from Peru took advantage of the internecine strife to reconquer Chile in 1814, when they reasserted control by winning the Battle of Rancagua on October 12.

* 12 October 1813 – 12 February 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 1st time )

* 12 June 1814 – 3 October 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 2nd time ); he stayed on as " supreme dictator " 3 October 1814 – 20 September 1840 ( from 6 June 1816 styled " perpetual supreme dictator ")

Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.

Thus from October 1, 1814, to February 28, 1815, Monroe effectively held both cabinet posts.

Jean-François Millet ( October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875 ) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.

Initially known appropriately as the Achteck ( Octagon ), on 15 September 1814 it was renamed Leipziger Platz after the site of Prussia's final decisive defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Leipzig, 16 – 19 October 1813, which brought to an end the Wars of Liberation that had been going on since 1806.

* October 10 – Lorenzo Snow, Mormon leader ( born 1814 )

* October 3 – James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore ( b. 1814 )

* October 31 – Joseph Hooker, American general ( b. 1814 )

* October 11 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral and Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1814 )

The Battle of Hanau ( 30 – 31 October 1814 ), took part between Austro-Bavarian and French forces.

The flag of the Patria Vieja would wave again after Carrera's return to power 23 July 1814 until the Battle of Rancagua ( 1 – 2 October ) where the royalist victory ended the patriot government and began the Reconquista ( or Reconquest ) from 1814 to 1817, restoring the imperial standard.

Charles XIII & II also Carl, ( Stockholm, 7 October 1748 – Stockholm, 5 February 1818 ), was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIII ) from 1809 and King of Norway ( as Charles II ) from 1814 until his death.

Following the defeat of Napoleon's troops at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 and the Treaty of Kiel of January 1814, the Crown Prince of Denmark-Norway, Christian Frederik, the resident vice-roy in Norway, founded a Norwegian independence movement.

Harrisville was platted by John Wells, Thomas Gray, Store Hutchinson, and Robert Dutton on October 19, 1814.

Joseph Hooker ( November 13, 1814 – October 31, 1879 ) was a career United States Army officer, achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

* October 10-Adolf von Henselt, pianist and composer ( b. 1814 )

He had been in London for several weeks when he wrote to Shakespeare on October 25.

Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.

The rebels may try to seize what is left of the October harvest when the floods recede and the monsoon ends in November.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

In October 2009, when visiting Yerevan, the World Bank ’ s managing director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, warned that Armenia will not reach a higher level of development unless its leadership changes the " oligopolistic " structure of the national economy, bolsters the rule of law and shows " zero tolerance " towards corruption.

The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

In October 2008, the United States Department of Justice defined an Alford plea as: " when a the defendant maintains his or her innocence with respect to the charge to which he or she offers to plead guilty ".

A classic use of an abatis was found at the Battle of the Chateauguay, 26 October 1813, when approximately 1, 300 Canadian voltigeurs, under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 2, 300 men.

He remained in the hospital until October 1985 when his wife finally was allowed to travel to the United States.

In late October 1938, when he was living in a rented room in the home of a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland.

The Kingdom of Bulgaria participated in World War I on the side of the Central Powers between 15 October 1915, when the country declared war on Serbia, to 29 September 1918, when the Armistice of Thessalonica was signed.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

As a result, reports of the battle did not reach Britain until Capel arrived in Mutine on 2 October, entering the Admiralty at 11: 15 and personally delivering the news to Lord Spencer, who collapsed unconscious when he heard the report.

Another occurred in issue 2674, dated 16 October 1993, when the whole comic was now printed in full colour, along with some new strips such as The Numskulls, which had been moved from The Beezer.

" In October 2007 when Bob Jones III, as " a private citizen ," endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for president, Stephen Jones made it clear that he wished " to stay out of politics " and that neither he nor the university had endorsed anyone.

The First Balkan War broke out when the League attacked the Ottoman Empire on 8 October 1912 and was ended seven months later by the Treaty of London.

Consequently no actions could be taken when the Serbs acceded to the Austrian ultimatum of 18 October and withdrew from Albania.

The " Florida Keys for Katrina Relief " had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem.

Chaplin recalled: " I had a disquieting feeling of sinking back into a depressing commonplaceness ", and was therefore " elated " when a new tour began in October.

The rainy season occurs from May to October, when it is subject to tropical storms and hurricanes.

In October 1993, Comoros joined the League of Arab States, after having been rejected when it applied for membership initially in 1977.