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What Happened in May 1814

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Historical Events

  • May 4 Bourbon reign restored in France

Decree of Valencia

May 4 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism

King of Spain Ferdinand VII
  • May 5 British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York
  • May 17 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)
  • May 17 Norwegian constitution passed by constituent assembly at Eidsvoll
  • May 17 Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian

Treaty of Paris

May 30 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

Events in 1814

Famous Birthdays

  • May 8 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary anarchist, born in Pryamukhino, Tver Governorate of the Russian Empire (d. 1876)
  • May 9 Adolf von Henselt, German composer, born in Schwabach, Bavaria (d. 1889)
  • May 14 Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
  • May 30 Eugène Charles Catalan, French-Belgian mathematician (worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics), born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1894)
Born in 1814

Famous Deaths

  • May 6 George Joseph Vogler, German composer, dies at 64
  • May 7 Franz Volrath Buttstett, German composer, dies at 79
  • May 12 Robert Treat Paine, American judge and Founding Father (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 83

Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814)

May 29 first wife of Napoleon I and first Empress of France (1804-14), dies of pneumonia aged 50

Joséphine de Beauharnais



What Happened in 1814

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