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1812 was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
- - the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic wars comes to a draw.
- September 14 - Napoleon 's troops enter Moscow and set the city on fire.
Battery in the Battle Of Borodino .]]
October
November
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
- January 10 - Hong Xiuquan , Chinese rebel (d. 1864 )
- January 13 - Victor De Laprade , French poet and critic (d. 1883 )
- February 7 - Charles Dickens , English writer (d. 1870 )
- February 11 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens , Vice President of Confederate States of America (d. 1883 )
- February 15 - Charles Lewis Tiffany , American jeweler (d. 1902 )
- March 1 - Augustus Pugin , English-born architect (d. 1852 )
- March 6 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895 )
- March 22 - Stephen Pearl Andrews , American anarchist and abolitionist (d. 1886 )
- April 22 - Solomon Caesar Malan , Swiss-born orientalist (d. 1894 )
- April 27 - Friedrich Von Flotow , German composer (d. 1883 )
- May 7 - Robert Browning , English poet (d. 1889 )
- June 9 - Johann Gottfried Galle , German astronomer (d. 1910 )
- July 2 - Nathaniel De Rothschild , French wine grower (d. 1870 )
- November 14 - Aleardo Aleardi , Italian poet (d. 1878 )
- December 24 - Karl Eduard Zachariae , German jurist (d. 1894 )
- Mohan Lal (Zutshi) , Indian traveler (d. 1877 )
Deaths
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