Year (''' MDCCCXIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- February 11 - Fort Meigs : Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard assumes the command of the post.
- February 26 - The Secretary of War orders Colonel R. M. Johnson to hold in readiness (reserves) a regiment 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 8 - Colonel James Ball arrives at Fort Meigs with 200 Dragoon s.
- - 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 Lützen
- 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
- , United States forces capture Fort George .
- - 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 succeded in crossing the Blue Mountains and returned home.
- — 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 .
- January 19 - Sir Henry Bessemer , English inventor (d. 1898 )
- January 21 - John C. Frémont , American soldier and explorer (d. 1890 )
- January 26 - Juan Pablo Duarte , Founder of the Dominican Republic (d. 1876 )
- February 11 - Otto Ludwig , German writer (d. 1865 )
- February 15 - Frederick Holbrook , Vermont governor (d. 1909 )
- March 18 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel , German poet and playwright (d. 1863 )
- March 19 - David Livingstone , English missionary and explorer (d. 1873 )
- March 21 - James Strang , Mormon splinter group leader (d. 1856 )
- March 27 - Nathaniel Currier , American illustrator (d. 1888 )
- April 23 - Stephen A. Douglas , U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. 1861 )
- May 5 - Soren Kierkegaard , Danish philosopher (d. 1855 )
- May 21 - Robert Murray M'Cheyne , Scottish clergyman (d. 1843 )
- May 22 - Richard Wagner , German composer (d. 1883 )
- June 24 - Henry Ward Beecher , American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887 )
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- January 6 - Louis Baraguey D'Hilliers , French general (b. 1764 )
- January 20 - Christoph Martin Wieland , German writer (b. 1733 )
- February 13 - Samuel Ashe , Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725 )
- February 26 - Robert Linvingston , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746 )
- April 10 - Joseph Louis Lagrange , Italian mathematician (b. 1746 )
- April 27 - Zebulon Pike , American general (b. 1779 )
- April 28 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov , Russian field marshal (b. 1745 )
- May 1 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières , French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768 )
- May 23 - Geraud Duroc , French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1772 )
- June 6 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart , French architect (b. 1739 )
- June 17 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham , English sailor and politician (b. 1726 )
- June 28 - Gerhard Von Scharnhorst , Prussian general (b. 1755 )
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