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August 20 – 27: Battle of Grand Port 1810 (MDCCCX) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1810th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
810th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 10th year of the 19th century,
and the 1st year of the 1810s decade. As of
the start of 1810, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially
becomes Governor of New South Wales. ·
January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell
Island, in the Subantarctic.[1] ·
January 12 – The marriage of Napoleon and Joséphine is
annulled. ·
February 20 – Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer is executed. ·
March 4 – Peninsular War: The French Army, under the
command of André Masséna,
retreats from Portugal. ·
March 11 – Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of
Austria. April–June[edit] ·
April 19 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy
General of Venezuela, is removed by the people of Caracas, and a junta is installed. Venezuela is the
first South American state to proclaim independence from Spain. ·
April 27 – Beethoven composes
his famous piano piece, Für Elise. ·
May 1 – Macon's Bill Number
2 becomes law in the United States, intending to
motivate Britain and
France to stop seizing American vessels during the Napoleonic Wars. ·
May 3 – Lord Byron swims across the Hellespont in Turkey.[2] ·
May 10 – Rev. Henry Duncan opens
the world's first commercial savings bank, in Ruthwell, Scotland.[3] ·
May 16 – Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours). [4] ·
May 18–25 – May Revolution: Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy and establish a provincial
government for Argentina (the Primera Junta). ·
June 4 – The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves is
founded in Dedham,
Massachusetts. ·
June 23 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. ·
June – Nicolas Appert publishes L'art de conserver pendant plusieurs
années toutes les
substances animales ou végétales,
the first description of modern food preservation using airtight containers. ·
April – Summer – The Kingdom of Hawaii is
unified. July–September[edit] ·
July 9 ·
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland. ·
Russia
acquires Sukhumi through a treaty with the Abkhazian dukes, and declares a protectorate over the whole of Abkhazia. [5] ·
July 11 – Frederick Hasselborough discovers Macquarie Island, in the subantarctic.[6][7] ·
July 20 – Patria Boba: A junta of seven patriots,
led by José Acevedo y Gómez,
assemble in Bogotá in the Viceroyalty of
New Granada (modern-day Colombia), to declare its independence from
the Spanish Empire. ·
August 2 – In Quito, Ecuador, 200 citizens are slaughtered
in the Royal barracks and the surrounding streets, by royalist troops. ·
August 6 – The city of Santa Cruz de Mompox, in modern-day Colombia, declares independence from
the Spanish Empire. ·
August 20–27 – Battle of Grand Port:
The French force the British Royal Navy fleet, attempting to
blockade a harbour on Isle de France
(Mauritius), to surrender. ·
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
arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River, and Astor's men establish
the fur-trading town of Astoria. ·
September 16 – Grito de Dolores: Miguel Hidalgo, a Catholic priest from Guanajuato, incites the revolt that becomes
the Mexican War
of Independence. ·
September 18 – Chile forms its First
National Junta, which is the country's first step towards its
independence. ·
September 23 – The Republic of West
Florida declares independence from Spain. ·
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[edit] ·
October – King George
III of the United Kingdom is recognized as insane. ·
October 12 – First Oktoberfest: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens
of Munich to join the celebration of the
marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig
of Bavaria, to Princess Therese of
Saxe-Hildburghausen. ·
October 27 – The United States annexes
the Republic of West
Florida. ·
November 2 – A peace treaty in Haiti confirms its division between the
northern State of Haiti,
ruled autocratically by the gen de couleur Henri Christophe, and the southern Republic,
ruled by mulatto Alexandre Pétion. Steeve Coupeau, The History of Haiti (Greenwood,
2008) p49 ·
November 17 – Anglo-Swedish
War (1810–12): Sweden declares war on the United Kingdom. ·
November 23 – English actress Sarah Booth debuts at the Theatre Royal, Covent
Garden in London. ·
November 29–December 3 – Invasion of
Isle de France: British forces force the French to surrender Isle de France
(Mauritius). Date unknown[edit]
Goethe publishes Theory of Colours ·
Amadou Lobbo initiates his jihad, in present-day Mali. ·
Ching Shih and Cheung Po Tsai surrender their pirate
fleet to the Chinese government. ·
The
first steamboat sails on the Ohio River. ·
The
General Union of Spinners organizes a strike action, to raise wages in the smaller
UK cotton centres
to the Manchesterlevel. ·
The Saint Petersburg main
military engineering school becomes the first
engineering higher
learning institution in the Russian Empire, after the addition of
officers' classes, and the application of a five-year term of teaching. ·
Friedrich Krupp establishes a steel
foundry in Essen. ·
Rocky Point Manor is
built in Harrodsburg,
Kentucky. ·
Moose
become extinct in the Caucasus. ·
18,000 Angolans are sold at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ·
Palm oil sales from West Africa to
Britain reach 1,000 tons. ·
4,500
chests of opium are sold in China. ·
Sake Dean Mahomed opens
the Hindoostanee Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in
London.[8] Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 3 – Antoine Thomson
d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer
(d. 1897) ·
January 13 – Ernestine Rose, Polish-born feminist
(d. 1892) ·
January 29 – Ernst Kummer,
German mathematician (d. 1893) ·
February 5 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880) ·
February 8 – Eliphas Levi,
French writer (d. 1875) ·
March 1[9] – Frédéric Chopin,
Polish composer, pianist (d. 1849) ·
March 2 – Pope Leo XIII (b. Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci)
(d. 1903) ·
March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet, artist
(d. 1886) ·
April 8 – Hégésippe Moreau, French writer and poet
(d. 1838) ·
May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874) ·
May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist,
literary critic and feminist (drowning) (d.1850) ·
May 24 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism (d. 1874) ·
May 31 – Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York, 1868 Democratic
Party Presidential Nominee (d. 1886) ·
June 8 – Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist
(d. 1856) ·
June 9 – Carl Otto Nicolai,
German composer, conductor (d. 1849) ·
June 14 – Ward Hunt, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1886) July–December[edit]
·
July 5 – P. T. Barnum, American showman (d. 1891) ·
July 20 – Leonhard
Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1900) ·
July 21 – Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist, physicist (d. 1878) ·
August 4 – Maurice de Guérin, French poet (d. 1839) ·
August 10 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, 1st Prime Minister of
Italy (d. 1861) ·
August 24 – Theodore Parker, American preacher,
Transcendentalist, and abolitionist (d. 1860) ·
August 29 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and
Constitution main promoter (d. 1884) ·
September 2 – William Seymour
Tyler, American educator, historian (d. 1897) ·
September 11 – James Pollock, American politician (d. 1890) ·
September 29 – Elizabeth Gaskell,
British novelist (d. 1865) ·
October 4 – Eliza McCardle
Johnson, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1876) ·
October 8 – James W. Marshall,
American contractor, builder of Sutter's Mill (d. 1885) ·
November 2 – Andrew A. Humphreys,
American general, civil engineer (d. 1883) ·
November 3 – Yisroel Salanter,
father of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism (d. 1883) ·
November 26 – William
Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer, inventor of
the Hydraulic
accumulator (d. 1900) ·
December 7 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist
(d. 1882) ·
December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857) ·
December 24 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Nicolae Golescu,
9th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1877) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 15 – Yekaterina
Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova,
Russian princess, courtier and patron of the arts and sciences, first woman
to head a scientific academy (b. 1743) ·
January 20 – Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial
Pennsylvania (b. 1722) ·
January 23 – Johann Wilhelm
Ritter, German chemist, physicist (b. 1776) ·
February 20 – Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero
(executed) (b. 1767) ·
February 24 – Henry Cavendish, British scientist (b. 1731) ·
March 7 – Cuthbert
Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750) ·
May 9 – Benjamin Lincoln, major general in the Continental Army during the American
Revolutionary War (b. 1733) ·
May 15 – Francis Hews, Baptist preacher in
Bedfordshire, England. ·
May 21 – Chevalier d'Eon,
French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (b. 1728) ·
May 26 – Catharina Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor
(d. 1764) ·
June 7 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765) ·
June 26 – Joseph-Michel
Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) July–December[edit]
Louise of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz ·
July 19 – Louise of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776) ·
August 12 – Étienne Louis
Geoffroy, French pharmacist, entomologist (b. 1725) ·
August 26 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st
Count of Buenos Aires, French officer in Spanish colonial military
service (executed) (b. 1753) ·
October 15 – Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755) ·
November 2 – Princess
Amelia of the United Kingdom, Member of the British Royal Family
(b. 1783) ·
Johan Zoffany,
German-born painter (b. 1733) ·
John Laurance,
American attorney, statesman, and judge (b. 1750) ·
December 2 – Philipp Otto Runge,
German painter (b. 1777) ·
December 5 – Kumara Swamy Desikar, Indian philosopher (b. 1711) ·
December 14 – Cyrus Griffin, last President
of the Continental Congress (b. 1749) ·
undated – Natalia Shelikova, Russian business person (b. 1762) References[edit] 1.
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the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (Princeton University
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^ George Hewitt, The Abkhazians: A Handbook (Routledge,
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^ A baptismal record gives February 22; see Frédéric Chopin for
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