Checked content

1810

Related subjects: Years

Background Information

This Wikipedia selection is available offline from SOS Children for distribution in the developing world. Child sponsorship helps children one by one http://www.sponsor-a-child.org.uk/.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 18th century19th century20th century
Decades: 1780s  1790s  1800s  – 1810s –   1820s   1830s   1840s
Years: 1807 1808 180918101811 1812 1813

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).

Events of 1810

January - March

  • January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
  • January 20 - Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer executed.
  • March 2 - Birth of Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, Later Pope Leo XIII (Pope 1878-1903)
  • 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: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta 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 Harbour 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 of Saxe-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

Goethe publishes Theory of Colours
  • 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.
  • 18,000 Angolans are sold at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ongoing events

  • Argentine War of Independence 1810-1818
  • Black War 1804-1835
  • Bolivian Independence War 1809-1824
  • Gunboat War 1807-1814
  • Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) - Peninsular War
  • Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)
  • Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812

Births

1810 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1810
MDCCCX
Ab urbe condita 2563
Armenian calendar 1259
ԹՎ ՌՄԾԹ
Assyrian calendar 6560
Bahá'í calendar -34–-33
Bengali calendar 1217
Berber calendar 2760
British Regnal year 50 Geo. 3 – 51 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2354
Burmese calendar 1172
Byzantine calendar 7318–7319
Chinese calendar 己巳年十一月廿六日
(4446/4506-11-26)
— to —
庚午年十二月初六日
(4447/4507-12-6)
Coptic calendar 1526–1527
Ethiopian calendar 1802–1803
Hebrew calendar 5570–5571
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1866–1867
 - Shaka Samvat 1732–1733
 - Kali Yuga 4911–4912
Holocene calendar 11810
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 810–811
Iranian calendar 1188–1189
Islamic calendar 1224–1225
Japanese calendar Bunka 7
(文化7年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar 4143
Minguo calendar 102 before ROC
民前102年
Thai solar calendar 2353

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 aka Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (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)

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)
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1810&oldid=195085532"