1810 Calendar
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1810 Historical Event(s)
February 4, 1810
– The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
February 20, 1810
– Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
April 19, 1810
– Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
April 20, 1810
– The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
June 23, 1810
– John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
August 9, 1810
– Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
August 21, 1810
– Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
August 26, 1810
– The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
August 27, 1810
– Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
September 18, 1810
– First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
Who Were Born On 1810?
January 3, 1810
– Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
January 10, 1810
– Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)
January 29, 1810
– Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
April 6, 1810
– Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist (d. 1888)
April 21, 1810
– John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
July 5, 1810
– P.T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
September 3, 1810
– Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
November 18, 1810
– Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)
November 30, 1810
– Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
December 24, 1810
– Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)