Coins minted in the Year 1813

Monarch was George III. Prime Minister was Lord Liverpool (Tory). "Uncle Sam" was first used to refer to U.S. (in the Troy Post of New York). Americans under General Pike capture Toronto. British invade Plattsburgh, New York. Napoleonic Wars as Prussia declares war on France. Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria and Russia). Peninsular War, Battle of Vitoria when British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces under Wellington defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte. The British government removed the British East India Company’s monopoly of trade with India. Last striking of Guinea coins, to pay Wellington's army in the Pyrenees. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published anonymously in London. 1813 can be written as MDCCCXIII.