1813

Year 1813 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

 * -, 's masterpiece, was published.
 * - : Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard assumes the command of the post.
 * - The Secretary of War orders Colonel R. M. Johnson to hold in readiness (reserves) a regiment of mounted volunteers who will serve from 4-6 months after being called into active service.
 * February late- General Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels at by going across  via the  in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough and the expedition returns.
 * - Col. R. M. Johnson puts out an order for raising a regiment of mounted volunteers in.

April - June
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 * - Colonel  arrives at  with 200 s.
 * - : -  troops raid, destroy, but do not hold the capital of, York (present day ).
 * - wins the
 * -, and left on an expedition to cross the
 * - - wins the
 * - : In, forces capture.
 * - : - A  force of 700 under  defeat an  force three times its size under  and ., and  succeeded in crossing the  and returned home.
 * - : — A British, Spanish, and Portuguese force of 78,000 with 96 guns under  defeats a French force of 58,000 with 153 guns under.

July - September

 * - War of 1812: Three weeks of raids on,  and  begin.
 * - Missionaries and his wife  arrive in.
 * - joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
 * - - wins the
 * - - 's troops defeated at
 * - becomes Poet Laureate of Britain
 * - : defeats a British fleet in the
 * - becomes Poet Laureate of Britain
 * - : defeats a British fleet in the
 * - : defeats a British fleet in the

October - December

 * - : defeats the British at the, native leader  was killed in battle
 * - After a ceremony in, , the municipality gives the title of .
 * - - is defeated at the
 * - - and  sign the  of 1813 at the end of the first  (1804-1813) by which   loses all its territories to the north of  River to the Russians.
 * - : defeats an American invasion at the
 * - : the Americans are defeated at the
 * - An independent government is restored in the.
 * - : soldiers burn

Undated

 * n troops reach and take without a fight after the  garrison evacuated the city.
 * publishes his groundbreaking Trait des poisons, formalizing the field of.
 * serves as ambassador extraordinaire in.
 * Following the death of his father, arrives at the capital  before his other brothers, and is made Meridazmach of.
 * The of the  is founded. It is the oldest continuously-existing literary society in the United States.

January - June

 * - Sir, English inventor (d. )
 * -, American soldier and explorer (d. )
 * -, Founder of the Dominican Republic (d. )
 * -, German writer (d. )
 * -, Vermont governor (d. )
 * -, German poet and playwright (d. )
 * -, English missionary and explorer (d. )
 * -, Mormon splinter group leader (d. )
 * -, American illustrator (d. )
 * -, U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. )
 * -, Danish philosopher (d. )
 * -, Scottish clergyman (d. )
 * -, German composer (d. )
 * -, American clergyman and reformer (d. )

July - December

 * -, American industrialist (d. )
 * -, Union Army General, American Civil War (d. )
 * -, President of (d. )
 * -, Italian composer (d. )
 * -, German playwright (d. )
 * -, Irish chemist (d.)
 * date unknown -, American Methodist theologian (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, French general (b. )
 * -, German writer (b. )
 * -, Governor of North Carolina (b. )
 * -, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. )
 * -, Italian mathematician (b. )
 * -, American general (b. )
 * -, Russian field marshal (b. )
 * -, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. )
 * -, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. )
 * -, French architect (b. )
 * -, English sailor and politician (b. )
 * -, Prussian general (b. )

July - December

 * -, French general (suicide) (b. )
 * -, English poet (b. )
 * -, First born daughter Of John and Abigail Adams (b.1765)
 * -, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. )
 * -, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. )
 * -, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
 * -, Shawnee leader
 * -, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. )
 * -, French-American writer (b. )
 * -, Son of Benjamin Franklin (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * date unknown -, Meridazmach of (murdered) (b. )


 * See also .