1810

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).

Events of 1810

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.

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.
General strike of adult cotton spinners in Manchester.

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 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)
December 24 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (died 1873)

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

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