Banner. September 21 – War of 1812: – British Siege of Fort Erie fails. September 27 War of 1812: – Battle of Fayal ends in an American victory over the British. Hadži-Prodan's rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins. October–December October 17 – London Beer Flood: A large vat full of porter owned by Meux's Brewery of London bursts, demolishing buildings and killing 8 people. October 19 – War of 1812: – Battle of Cook's Mills: U.S. forces defeat the British in Upper Canada. November 1 – Francis Rawdon-Hastings, the Governor-General of India declares war on Kingdom of Nepal and Anglo-Nepalese War begins. November 1 – The Congress of Vienna formally opens in Austria to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, with the European powers agreeing upon the redrawing of national borders following the victory over France; it will last until June 9, 1815. November 4 – King Charles XIII of Sweden becomes King of Norway, as Charles II . November 7 – War of 1812: Andrew Jackson seizes Pensacola, Florida. December 15 – War of 1812: The Hartford Convention is convened, by members of the American Federalist Party. December 24 – War of 1812: The Treaty of Ghent is signed, formally ending the war. December 25 – Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society preaches the first sermon in New Zealand, probably in the Māori language, at Oihi. Date unknown The world's first complex machine mass-produced from interchangeable parts, Eli Terry's wooden pillar-and-scroll clock, comes off the production line in Plymouth, Connecticut. Births January–June January 1 William Bigler, American politician (d. 1880) Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864) January 27 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879) February 9 – Samuel J. Tilden, 25th Governor of New York, 1876 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee (d. 1886) February 18 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician, temperance activist (d. 1900) March 9 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861) March 17 – Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands (d. 1854) April 3 – Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1901) April 21 – Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906) May 7 – Henriette Hansen, Norwegian ballerina, singer and actor (d. 1892) May 12 – Adolf von Henselt, German composer (d. 1889) May 26 Wilhelm Engerth, Austrian