1810
1810 (
MDCCCX was a
common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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January 10 - Marriage of
Napoleon and
Josephine is annulled.
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January 20 -
Tyrolean rebel leader
Andreas Hofer executed.
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March 11 -
Napoleon marries
Marie-Louise of Austria.
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April 19 -
Venezuela achieves home rule:
Emparan,
Governor of the
Captaincy General is removed by the people of
Caracas and a
Junta is installed.
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April 27 -
Beethoven composes his famous piano piece,
Für Elise.
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May 10 - Revolutionary occupation of
Buenos Aires town hall.
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May 25 - Armed citizens of
Buenos Aires expel the
Viceroy from
Spain and establish a
provincial government for
Argentina.
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June 8 - Birth of
Robert Schumann,
German composer.
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June 23 -
John Jacob Astor forms the
Pacific Fur Company.
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July 9 -
Napoleon annexes the
Kingdom of Holland.
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July 20 -
Colombia declares independence from
Spain.
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August 6 - City of
Santa Cruz de Mompox, in modern-day
Colombia, declares independence from the
Spanish Empire.
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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.
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September 16 -
Dieciséis de septiembre, the
Mexican War of Independence of the
Republic of
Mexico.
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September 18 -
Chile forms the
National Junta, which is their first passage towards independency.
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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.
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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.
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October 27 -
USA annexes
West Florida from
Spain.
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November 10 - the
Berners Street Hoax -
Theodore Hook manages to attract dozens of people to
53 Berners Street in
London.
* King
George III of the
United Kingdom recognized as insane.
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Amadou Lobbo initiates his
jihad in present-day
Mali.
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Russia acquires
Sukhumi through a treaty with
Abkhazian dukes, and declares a
protectorate over the whole of
Abkhazia.
*
Macon's Bill No. 2.
* First
steamboat on the
Ohio River.
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Napoleonic Wars (
1799-
1815) -
Peninsular War*
Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812*
January 3 -
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer (died
1897)
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February 5 -
Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (died
1880)
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February 22 -
Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist (died
1849)
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March 2 -
Pope Leo XIII (died
1903)
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March 10 -
Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (died
1886)
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May 2 -
Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (died
1874)
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May 23 -
Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (died
1850)
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June 8 -
Robert Schumann, German composer and pianist (died
1856)
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July 5 -
P. T. Barnum, American showman (died
1891)
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July 21 -
Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (died
1878)
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September 2 -
William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (died
1897)
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September 29 -
Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (died
1865)
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October 10 -
James W. Marshall, American contractor and builder of
Sutter's Mill (died
1885)
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December 11 -
Alfred de Musset, French poet (died
1857)
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January 20 -
Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (born
1722)
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February 20 -
Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (born
1767)
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February 24 -
Henry Cavendish, British scientist (born
1731)
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March 7 -
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (born
1750)
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June 7 -
Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (born
1765)
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July 19 -
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (born
1776)
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August 12 -
Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (born
1725)
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October 15 -
Alfred Moore, American judge (born
1755)
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November 11 -
Johann Zoffany, German-born painter (born
1733)
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November 11 -
John Laurance, American attorney, statesman, and judge (born
1750)
The
tin can was invented during the war with Napoleon in 1810.
