Industrial Age · North America · Politics
1814
Treaty of Ghent
December 24, 1814
In a Flemish convent, American and British negotiators signed a peace that returned everything to where it had been before the War of 1812. Two weeks later, in ignorance of the treaty, Andrew Jackson would win the Battle of New Orleans and become a hero for a war already ended.
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Also in 1814 (4 other events on record)
- Allies Enter Paris · Europe · War
- Congress of Vienna Opens · Europe · Politics
- British Burn Washington · North America · War
- Treaty of Kiel · Europe · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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