1813

Year 1813 (MDCCCXIII) was a year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1813
January - March
February 11 - Fort Meigs: Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard takes the command of the post.
February 26 - The Secretary of War orders Colonel R. M. Johnson to get ready a group of mounted volunteers who will serve from 4-6 months after being called into active service.
February late- 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 22 - Col. R. M. Johnson puts out an order for raising a regiment of mounted volunteers in Kentucky.
April - June
April 8 - Colonel James Ball arrives at Fort Meigs with 200 dragoons.
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 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Lutzen
May 11- Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworh left on an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains
May 20-May 21 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Bautzen
May 27 - War of 1812: In Canada, United States 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 three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler. Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworh succeeded in crossing the Blue Mountains and returned 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 to end the Peninsular War.
July - September
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 (now Myanmar).
August 19 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second three-person-rule.
August 23 - Battle of Grossbeeren
August 26 - Battle of Katzbach
August 26-August 27 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Dresden
August 29-August 30 - Napoleon's troops defeated at Kulm
September - Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of Britain
September 6 - Battle of Dennewitz
September 10 - War of 1812: Oliver Hazard Perry defeats a British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie
October - December
October 5 - War of 1812: William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames, native leader Tecumseh was killed in battle
October 14 - After a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, the municipality gives Simon Bolivar the title of El Libertador.
October 16-October 19 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Leipzig
October 24-November 5 - Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 at the end of the first Russo-Persian Wars (1804-1813) by which Persia (Iran) loses all its territories to the north of Aras River to the Russians.
October 25 - War of 1812: Charles de Salaberry defeats an American invasion at the Battle of Chateauguay
November 11 - War of 1812: the Americans are defeated at the Battle of Crysler's Farm
November 21 - An independent government is restored in the Netherlands.
December 29 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York
Undated
Russian troops reach and take Berlin without a fight after the French garrison evacuated (sent everyone out) the city.
Mathieu Orfila publishes his groundbreaking Trait des poisons, formalizing the field of toxicology.
George Hamilton-Gordon serves as ambassador expert in Vienna.
After the death of his father Wossen Seged, Sahle Selassie arrives at the capital Qundi before his other brothers, and is made Meridazmach of Shewa.
The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded. It is the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States.