1814

Events in 1814 9

• 1814 – 1874 Anders Jonas Angstrom (1814-1874) Died 21 June 1874, aged 59 Angstrom was a Swedish physicist and a founder of the science of spectroscopy. His precise measurements of the solar spectrum used a unit of length later named the angstrom in his honor. He also produced an early atlas of the solar spectrum.
• 1814 – 1884 Charles Reade (1814-1884) Died 11 April 1884, aged 69 Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth. He was a prominent figure in Victorian popular fiction and also wrote widely on social reform issues. He died in London.
• 1814 – 1869 Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) Died 24 December 1869, aged 55 Edwin Stanton served as United States Secretary of War under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, overseeing Union military logistics during the Civil War. His dismissal by Andrew Johnson in 1868 helped trigger Johnson's impeachment. Stanton died days after being confirmed to the US Supreme Court, before he could take his seat.
• 1814 – 1875 Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) Died 20 January 1875, aged 60 Millet was a French painter best known for The Gleaners and The Angelus, works that dignified the labor of peasant life. He was a founding figure of the Barbizon school of rural landscape and genre painting.
• 1814 – 1877 John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) Died 29 May 1877, aged 63 John Lothrop Motley was an American historian and diplomat best known for his multivolume history of the Dutch Republic's revolt against Spain. He served as United States minister to Austria and later to Great Britain. His histories were widely read in the nineteenth century for their narrative style.
• 1814 – 1876 Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) Died 1 July 1876, aged 62 Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary and philosopher regarded as one of the founders of the anarchist movement, known for his rivalry with Karl Marx within the First International. He died in Bern, Switzerland, on July 1, 1876.
• 1814 – 1862 Samuel Colt (1814-1862) Died 10 January 1862, aged 47 Colt was an American inventor and industrialist who patented the first mass-produced revolver and built a firearms empire in Hartford, Connecticut. His manufacturing methods helped pioneer interchangeable-parts production.
• 1814 – 1886 Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886) Died 4 August 1886, aged 72 Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York and presidential candidate, died at his estate in Yonkers. He won the popular vote in the disputed 1876 presidential election but lost the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes after a contested electoral count. He left much of his fortune to found what became the New York Public Library.
• 1814 – 1845 Thomas Davis (1814-1845) Died 16 September 1845, aged 30 Thomas Davis was an Irish writer and the leading figure of the Young Ireland movement. He co-founded The Nation newspaper. He wrote the ballad A Nation Once Again.