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8 January News of the Treaty of Ghent has not yet reached North America, and a British army is defeated by an American force under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.
April The enormous Tambora volcano erupts in Indonesia and kills ten thousand people. Volcanic ash is so dense that it obscures sunlight and causes crop failures that lead to disease and famine that will take another eighty thousand lives in the region.
22 December The United States and Algeria sign a peace treaty ending the Barbary Wars, a series of conflicts involving piratical attacks on American shipping in the Mediterranean Sea since 1801.
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