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Nathaniel Macon ntroduces Macon's Bill No. 2., stating that if France or Britain ceased firing upon American ships, they would resume trade with the respective country.
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Henry Clay is elected to the House of Representatives and becomes a leader of the War Hawks.
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Governor George Harrison of the Indiana territories leads U.S soldiers into battle against a confederacy of Native Americans
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Despite dissent between and within the House of Representatives, Congress grants President Madison's request to go to war.
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Tecumseh dies at the hands of Americans at the Battle of Thames. After his death, the intertribunal confederacy disperses.
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The British set the White House, Capitol, and other government buildings afire after the British victory at Bladensburg.
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The Treaty of Peace and Amity is signed between the United States and Britain in Ghent, Belgium.
