What Happened in October 1813

Historical Events

Battle of the Thames

Oct 5 Battle of the Thames; American forces under General William Henry Harrison defeat Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies led by Henry Procter near Chatham, Upper Canada

Native American Leader of the Shawnee Tecumseh

General and 9th US President William Henry Harrison

Oct 8 Treaty of Ried between Bavaria & Austria

Battle of Leipzig

Oct 16 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia

Oct 20 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
Oct 23 The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).

Events in 1813

Famous Birthdays

Oct 8 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, German composer, born in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Confederation of the Rhine (d. 1889)
Oct 9 John J. Pettus, American politician, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63), born in Wilson County, Tennessee (d. 1867)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Oct 10 Italian opera composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata), born in Busseto

Oct 12 Lyman Trumbull, U.S. Senator from Illinois (1855-73), born in Colchester, Connecticut (d. 1896)
Oct 17 Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)