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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.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
April–June
April –
Kaumualii receives an assurance of the continued independence of the
Kingdom of Hawaii .
[5]
April 2 –
Napoleon Bonaparte marries
Marie Louise of Austria, Duchess of Parma , in person, in Paris.
[6]
April 19 –
Venezuela achieves home rule:
Vicente Emparán , Governor of the
Captaincy General of Venezuela , is removed by the people of
Caracas , and
Supreme 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.
[7]
May 10 – Rev.
Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial
savings bank , in
Ruthwell , Scotland.
[8]
May 16 –
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zur Farbenlehre (
Theory of Colours ).
[9]
May 18 –
25 –
May Revolution : Armed citizens of
Buenos Aires expel the
Viceroy and establish a provincial government for
Argentina (the
Primera Junta ).
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros is removed.
June 7 – Argentina's new junta publishes the country's first newspaper, the
Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres , edited by
Mariano Moreno .
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.
July–September
July 9
July 11 –
Frederick Hasselborough discovers
Macquarie Island , in the subantarctic.
[12]
[13]
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 .
July 24 – Paraguay governor
Bernardo de Velasco and the
Cabildo of Asunción declare their loyalty to
Ferdinand VII to Spain and break up their relationship with
Buenos Aires .
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 defeat a
Royal Navy
frigate squadron attempting to blockade a harbour on
Isle de France (Mauritius) .
August 21 –
Jean Baptiste Bernadotte ,
Marshal of France , is elected
Crown Prince of Sweden, by the Swedish
Riksdag of the Estates .
[14]
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 22 –
Manuel Belgrano prepares his invasion to the Provincia del
Paraguay .
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
Date unknown
Births
January–June
Frédéric Chopin
Robert Schumann
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 )
[17]
February 8 –
Eliphas Levi , French writer (d.
1875 )
March 1
[18] –
Frédéric Chopin , Polish composer, pianist (d.
1849 )
[19]
March 2 –
Pope Leo XIII (b. Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) (d.
1903 )
March 10 –
Samuel Ferguson , Northern Irish lawyer, poet and artist (d.
1886 )
[20]
March 28 –
Alexandre Herculano , Portuguese writer and historian (d.
1877 )
[21]
April 8 –
Hégésippe Moreau , French writer and poet (d.
1838 )
May 2 –
Hans Christian Lumbye , Danish composer (d. 1874)
[22]
May 23 –
Margaret Fuller , American journalist, literary critic and feminist (d.
1850 )
[23]
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 and pianist (d.
1856 )
[24]
June 9 –
Otto Nicolai , German composer and conductor (d.
1849 )
[25]
June 14 –
Ward Hunt ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1886 )
July–December
Theodor Schwann
July 5 –
P. T. Barnum , American showman (d.
1891 )
[26]
July 20 –
Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal , Prussian field marshal (d.
1900 )
[27]
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 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 8 –
Pierre Bosquet , French general,
Marshal of France (d. 1861)
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
Deaths
January–June
Henry Cavendish
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 22 –
Charles Brockden Brown , American novelist (b.
1771 ; tuberculosis)
[29]
February 24 –
Henry Cavendish , British scientist (b.
1731 )
[30]
March 7 –
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood , British admiral (b.
1750 )
March 10 –
Augusta Dorothea, Abbess of Gandersheim , German princess (b.
1749 )
March 12 –
Jean-François-Auguste Moulin , member of the French Directory (b.
1752 )
April 25 –
Jacob Broom , American businessman and politician (b.
1752 )
April 26 –
John Metcalf , English roadbuilder (b.
1717 )
May 9 –
Benjamin Lincoln , major general in the
Continental Army during the
American Revolutionary War (b. 1733)
May 21 –
Chevalier d'Eon , French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (b.
1728 )
June 7 –
Luigi Schiavonetti , Italian engraver (b.
1765 )
June 26 –
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier , French inventor (b.
1740 )
[31]
July–December
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
July 6 –
Andrianampoinimerina , ruler of Madagascar (b.
1745 )
[32]
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)
September 13 –
William Cushing ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b.
1732 )
September 17 –
Ulla von Höpken , Swedish courtier, influential socialite (b.
1749 )
October 15 –
Alfred Moore , American judge (b.
1755 )
November 2 –
Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom , Member of the British Royal Family (b.
1783 )
November 11
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 )
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