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  • U.S.
    1812
    Robert Fulton

    Fulton's final design gets built

    U.S.
    1812

    Fulton's final design was the floating battery Demologos. This first steam-driven warship in the world was built for the United States Navy for the War of 1812. The heavy vessel was not completed until after Fulton's death and was named for him in his honor.




  • France
    1812
    Napoleon

    Napoleon expanded his Grande Armée to more than 450,000 men

    France
    1812

    By 1812, advisers to Alexander suggested the possibility of an invasion of the French Empire and the recapture of Poland. On receipt of intelligence reports on Russia's war preparations, Napoleon expanded his Grande Armée to more than 450,000 men.




  • Venezuela
    1812
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar was made commandant of Puerto Cabello

    Venezuela
    1812

    During the insurgence war conducted by Miranda, Bolívar was promoted to colonel and was made commandant of Puerto Cabello the following year, 1812.




  • Spain
    Thursday Mar 19, 1812
    Spanish Civil War

    Spanish Constitution of 1812

    Spain
    Thursday Mar 19, 1812

    The 19th century was a turbulent time for Spain. Those in favour of reforming Spain's government vied for political power with conservatives, who tried to prevent reforms. Some liberals, in a tradition that started with the Spanish Constitution of 1812, sought to limit the power of the monarchy of Spain and to establish a liberal state. The reforms of 1812 were overturned when King Ferdinand VII dissolved the Constitution and ended the Trienio Liberal government.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday May 11, 1812
    The palace of Westminster England

    Spencer Perceval assassinated

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday May 11, 1812

    The previous Palace of Westminster was also the site of a prime-ministerial assassination on 11 May 1812. While in the lobby of the House of Commons, on his way to a parliamentary inquiry, Spencer Perceval was shot and killed by a Liverpool merchant adventurer, John Bellingham. Perceval remains the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated.




  • Teplitz, Slovakia
    1812
    Beethoven

    The Immortal Beloved

    Teplitz, Slovakia
    1812

    While he was at Teplitz in 1812 he wrote a ten-page love letter to his "Immortal Beloved", which he never sent to its addressee.[84] The identity of the intended recipient was long a subject of debate, although the musicologist Maynard Solomon has effectively proved that the intended recipient must have been Antonie Brentano; other candidates have included Juliette Guicciardi, Therese Malfatti and Josephine Brunsvik.




  • France
    Wednesday Jun 24, 1812
    Napoleon

    Napoleon prepared for an offensive campaign against Russia

    France
    Wednesday Jun 24, 1812

    Napoleon ignored repeated advice against an invasion of the Russian heartland and prepared for an offensive campaign; on 24 June 1812 the invasion commenced.


  • San Felipe Castle, Puerto Cabello, Carabobo
    Tuesday Jun 30, 1812
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Castle along with its ammunition stores

    San Felipe Castle, Puerto Cabello, Carabobo
    Tuesday Jun 30, 1812

    As Royalist Frigate Captain Domingo de Monteverde was advancing into republican territory from the west, Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Castle along with its ammunition stores on 30 June 1812. Bolívar then retreated to his estate in San Mateo.


  • Venezuela
    Saturday Jul 25, 1812
    Simón Bolívar

    Agreement with Monteverde

    Venezuela
    Saturday Jul 25, 1812

    Miranda saw the republican cause as lost and signed a capitulation agreement with Monteverde on 25 July, an action that Bolívar and other revolutionary officers deemed treasonous. In one of Bolívar's most morally dubious acts, he and others arrested Miranda and handed him over to the Spanish Royal Army at the port of La Guaira.


  • Smolensk, Russian Empire
    Sunday Aug 16, 1812
    Napoleon

    Battle of Smolensk (1812)

    Smolensk, Russian Empire
    Sunday Aug 16, 1812

    The Russians avoided Napoleon's objective of a decisive engagement and instead retreated deeper into Russia. A brief attempt at resistance was made at Smolensk in August; the Russians were defeated in a series of battles, and Napoleon resumed his advance.


  • Curaçao
    Thursday Aug 27, 1812
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar left for Curaçao

    Curaçao
    Thursday Aug 27, 1812

    For his apparent services to the Royalist cause, Monteverde granted Bolívar a passport, and Bolívar left for Curaçao on 27 August.


  • Borodino, Russian Empire
    Monday Sep 7, 1812
    Napoleon

    Battle of Borodino

    Borodino, Russian Empire
    Monday Sep 7, 1812

    The Russians eventually offered battle outside Moscow on 7 September: the Battle of Borodino resulted in approximately 44,000 Russian and 35,000 French dead, wounded or captured, and may have been the bloodiest day of battle in history up to that point in time. Although the French had won, the Russian army had accepted, and withstood, the major battle Napoleon had hoped would be decisive. Napoleon's own account was: "The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible".


  • Russian Empire
    Sunday Nov 8, 1812
    Napoleon

    The night of 8/9 November

    Russian Empire
    Sunday Nov 8, 1812

    Napoleon and his army left. In early November Napoleon got concerned about loss of control back in France after the Malet coup of 1812. His army walked through snow up to their knees, and nearly 10,000 men and horses froze to death on the night of 8/9 November alone.


  • Russian Empire
    Nov, 1812
    Napoleon

    Fewer than 40,000 crossing the Berezina River

    Russian Empire
    Nov, 1812

    The French suffered in the course of a ruinous retreat, including from the harshness of the Russian Winter. The Armée had begun as over 400,000 front line troops, with fewer than 40,000 crossing the Berezina River in November 1812. The Russians had lost 150,000 in battle and hundreds of thousands of civilians.


  • Russian Empire
    Saturday Dec 5, 1812
    Napoleon

    Napoleon left the army in a sledge

    Russian Empire
    Saturday Dec 5, 1812

    After the Battle of Berezina Napoleon managed to escape but had to abandon much of the remaining artillery and baggage train. On 5 December, shortly before arriving in Vilnius, Napoleon left the army in a sledge.


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