1812
June 18 – The United States declares war on Great Britain
June 22 – A mob in Baltimore destroys the printing offices of an anti-war newspaper
July 12 – General William Hull invades Canada from Detroit
July 17 – Fort Michilimackinac surrenders to British-Canadian forces
August 5 – Skirmish near Brownstown, Michigan
August 8 – General Hull returns to Detroit
August 15 – British forces bombard Detroit
August 16 – General Hull surrenders Detroit
August 19 – The USS Constitution defeats the HMS Guerriere
October 13 – British-Canadians win the Battle of Queenston Heights, Ontario
November 27 – Skirmish at Fort Erie
December 28 – William Henry Harrison formally resigns as Governor of Indiana Territory and takes the rank of Brigadier General.
December 29 – USS Constitution defeats the HMS Java
1813
January 9 – Great Britain declares war on the United States
January 13 – John Armstrong replaces William Eustis as Secretary of War
January 18 – American forces seize Frenchtown, Michigan
January 22 – The Battle of River Raisin; roughly 40 to 60 American soldiers are killed in “The River Raisin Massacre”
February 20 – Battle of Ogdensburg
April 27 – Attack on York [modern today Toronto]; General Zebulon Pike is killed
April 29 – Raid on Frenchtown, Maryland by a British flotilla under the command of Admiral George Cockburn
March 4 – James Madison inaugurated for the second term as President
March 27 – Oliver Hazard Perry takes command of the flotilla at Lake Erie
May 1 – American forces evacuate York; Siege of Fort Meigs near modern-day Toledo Ohio begins
May 3 – Royal Marines land and burn Havre de Grace, Maryland
May 27 – Engagement at Fort George
May 29 – Battle at Sackets Harbor
June 1 – USS Chesapeake captured by the British frigate HMS Shannon; Captain James Lawrence dies days later
June 6 – Engagement at Stoney Creek
June 22 – Battle of Craney Island
June 24 – Engagement at Beaver Dams
June 25 – Burning of Hampton, Virginia
August 10 – Battle of St. Michaels
August 30 – Attack on Fort Mims, Alabama
September 10 – Battle of Lake Erie
October 5 – Battle of the Thames; Tecumseh is killed
October 7 – Andrew Jackson establishes camp at Fayetteville, TN to recruit American forces to combat the Creeks in Alabama
October 26 – Engagement at Chateauguay
November 11 – Battle of Crysler’s Farm
November 29 – Battle of Autossee
December 19 – Capture of Fort Niagara
1814
March 19 – Winfield Scott is promoted to Brigadier General at the age of 27
March 27 – Engagement at Horseshoe Bend
April 4 – Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba off the coast of Tuscany; Great Britain now turns its focus to the war in America
July 3 – American troops under Major General Jacob Brown cross the Niagara River and capture Fort Erie
July 5 – Battle of Chippawa
July 22 – Treaty of Greenville
July 25 – Battle of Lundy’s Lane, one of the fiercest battles of the war
August 8 – Peace negotiations begin
August 9 - Treaty of Fort Jackson
August 9 – Stonington, CT raid begins
August 12 – Stonington Raid Ends
August 14 – General Robert Ross in command of a reinforcement consisting of 4,500 veteran
British troops arrive at Chesapeake Bay
August 19 – British troops land at Benedict, Maryland
August 24 – Battle of Bladensburg
August 24 – Burning of Washington, D.C.
August 27 – Abandonment of Fort Warburton
August 28 – Alexandria Raid
September 6 – Battle of Plattsburgh
September 11 – Battle of Lake Champlain
September 12 – Battle of North Point; General Ross is killed
September 13 – Bombardment of Fort McHenry
September 14 – Francis Scott Key writes the first lines of the poem which would become “The Star-Spangled Banner”
November 6 – Battle of Malcom's Mills
November 9 – Battle of Pensacola
December 1 – Peace delegates reconvene at Ghent
December 14 – Delegates to the Hartford Convention meet in Hartford, Connecticut
December 24 – The Treaty of Ghent is signed
December 28 – The Treaty of Ghent is ratified by the British
1815
January 5 – The Hartford Convention concludes
January 8 – The Battle of New Orleans; death of Edward Packenham
February 16 – The United States Senate ratifies the Treaty of Ghent
February 18 – The Treaty of Ghent is declared; the War of 1812 is over
February 20 – USS Constitution engages the HMS Cyane and HMS Levant, not knowing the war was over
April 6 – Seven American prisoners are killed and 32 wounded in the “Dartmoor Massacre” at Dartmoor Prison in Devon, England
May 24 – Battle of the Sink Hole
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