1813

Clockwise from top left: The Battle of Leipzig was one of the largest battles of the Napoleonic Wars; The Battle of Lake Erie is controlled by American forces led by Oliver Hazard Perry after defeating the British; American forces under William Henry Harrison also defeated the British and their Native American allies during The Battle of the Thames; A peace treaty between the Russian Empire and Persia (now Iran) leads to the end of the Russo-Persian War; Jane Austen publishes one of the most famous novels in English literature, Pride and Prejudice; British and Portuguese forces besieged from the French; The Battle of Vitoria was a major battle where British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French, leading to the collapse of French rule in Spain; Simón Bolívar enters Caracas after a series of victories in the Venezuelan War of Independence, leading to the temporary establishment of the Second Republic of Venezuela.