1810

Year '1810' ('MDCCCX') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1810

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1810

January - March

★ January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.

★ January 20 - Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer executed.

★ March 4 - French Army, under the command of Massena retreats from Portugal

★ March 11 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.

April - June

★ April 19 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a is installed.

★ April 27 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.

★ May 1 - Macon's Bill No. 2 becomes law.

★ May 10 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall.

★ May 25 - In the May Revolution, Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy from Spain and establish a provincial government for Argentina.

★ June 4 - Founding of The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves in Dedham, Massachusetts.

★ June 8 - Birth of Robert Schumann, German composer.

★ June 23 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.

July - September

★ July 9 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.

★ July 20 - Colombia declares independence from Spain.

★ August 6 - City of Santa Cruz de Mompox, in modern-day Colombia, declares independence from the Spanish Empire.

★ August 21 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

★ September 8 - The ''Tonquin'' sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.

★ September 16 - ''Grito de Dolores''. Miguel Hidalgo, a catholic priest from Guanajuato incited the revolt that would become Mexico's Independence War.

★ September 18 - Chile forms the National Junta, which is their first passage towards independency.

★ September 26 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.

October - December

★ October 12 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

★ October 27 - USA annexes West Florida from Spain.

★ November 10 - the Berners Street Hoax - Theodore Hook manages to attract dozens of people to 53 Berners Street in London.

Undated

★ Amadou Lobbo initiates his jihad in present-day Mali.

★ Ching Shih and Chang Pao surrender their pirate fleet to the Chinese government.

★ First steamboat on the Ohio River.

★ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his Theory of Colours.

★ King George III of the United Kingdom recognized as insane.

★ Moose became extinct in Caucasus by this date.

★ Russia acquires Sukhumi through a treaty with Abkhazian dukes, and declares a protectorate over the whole of Abkhazia.

Ongoing events

★ Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) - Peninsular War

★ Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812

Births

January - June

★ January 3 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer (died 1897)

★ February 5 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (died 1880)

★ February 22 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist (died 1849)

★ March 2 - Pope Leo XIII (died 1903)

★ March 10 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (died 1886)

★ May 2 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (died 1874)

★ May 23 - Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (died 1850)

★ June 8 - Robert Schumann, German composer and pianist (died 1856)

July - December

★ July 5 - P. T. Barnum, American showman (died 1891)

★ July 21 - Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (died 1878)

★ September 2 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (died 1897)

★ September 29 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (died 1865)

★ October 10 - James W. Marshall, American contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill (died 1885)

★ December 11 - Alfred de Musset, French poet (died 1857)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 20 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (born 1722)

★ February 20 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (born 1767)

★ February 24 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (born 1731)

★ March 7 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (born 1750)

★ June 7 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (born 1765)

July - December

★ July 19 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (born 1776)

★ August 12 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (born 1725)

★ October 15 - Alfred Moore, American judge (born 1755)

★ November 11 - Johann Zoffany, German-born painter (born 1733)

★ November 11 - John Laurance, American attorney, statesman, and judge (born 1750)
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