1813

Years: 1810 1811 1812 - 1813 - 1814 1815 1816
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s

Events of 1813

January 24 – Siege of Danzig (1813) – beginning of the German campaign of 1813 (Wars of Liberation)
January 24 – The Philharmonic Society founded in London (later the Royal Philharmonic Society).
January 28 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published.
February 11 – Fort Meigs: Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard assumes the command of the post.
February 26 – The Secretary of War orders Colonel R. M. Johnson to hold in readiness (reserves) a regiment of mounted volunteers who will serve from 4 to 6 months after being called into active service.
February – General Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels at Malden by going across Lake Erie via the Bass Islands in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough and the expedition returns.
March 4 – James Madison is sworn in as President of the United States, for his second term.
March 22 – Col. R. M. Johnson puts out an order for raising a regiment of mounted volunteers in Kentucky.
March 29 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Rosillo Creek: The Republican Army of the North defeats the Spanish Royalist Army in present-day Bexar County, Texas.

April 8 – Colonel James Ball arrives at Fort Meigs with 200 dragons.
April 27 – War of 1812 – Battle of York: United States troops raid, destroy, but do not hold the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Ontario).
May 2 – Battle of Lützen: Napoleon wins against the German alliance.
May 11- Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth leave on an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains.
May 20–May 21 – Battle of Bautzen: Napoleon again defeats his combined enemies.
May 27 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
June 6
- War of 1812 – Battle of Stoney Creek: A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force 3 times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
- Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth succeed in crossing the Blue Mountains and return home.
June 21 – Peninsular War – Battle of Vitoria: A British, Spanish, and Portuguese force of 78,000 with 96 guns under Wellington defeats a French force of 58,000 with 153 guns under Joseph Bonaparte.

July 5 – War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
July 13 – Missionaries Adoniram Judson and his wife Ann Hasseltine Judson arrive in Burma.
August 19 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
August 23 – Battle of Großbeeren: Napoleon is defeated by Prussia and Sweden.
August 26 – Battle of Katzbach: Napoleon's troops are defeated by Prussia and Russia.
August 26–August 27 – Battle of Dresden: Napoleon's troops are victorious.
August 29–August 30 – Battle of Kulm: Napoleon's troops are defeated by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
August 31: After besieging San Sebastian, allied troops of Spain rampage, ransack and burn down the town almost entirely.
September – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of Britain.
September 6 – Battle of Dennewitz: The armies of Napoleon are again defeated by Prussia and Russia.
September 10 – War of 1812 – Battle of Lake Erie: An American squadron under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeats a British squadron, capturing 6 ships.

October 5 – War of 1812 – Battle of the Thames: William Henry Harrison defeats the British, and native leader Tecumseh is killed in battle.
October 14 – After a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, the municipality gives Simón Bolívar the title of El Libertador.
October 16–October 19 – Battle of Leipzig: Napoleon is defeated.
October 24–November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 at the end of the Russo-Persian War by which Persia (Iran) loses all its territories to the north of Aras River to the Russians.
October 25 – War of 1812 – Battle of Chateauguay: Charles de Salaberry defeats an American invasion
November 11 – War of 1812 – Battle of Crysler's Farm: the Americans are defeated by the British.
November 21 – An independent government is restored in the Netherlands.
December 29 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.