1810

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

Years: 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 - 1810 - 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815

Events

• January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled
• February 11 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
• April 19 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
• May 10 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall.
• May 25 - Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy from Spain and establish a provincial government for Argentina.
• July - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
• July 20 - Colombia declares independence from Spain.
• King George III of England recognized as insane
• 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 - national Independence Day of the Republic of Mexico
• October 12 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

Year in topic

• 1810 in literature
• 1810 in science

Births

• February 11 - Loisa Puget, composer
• February 22 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (+ 1849)
• March 1 - Frederic Chopin, French-Polish composer
• March 2 - Pope Leo XIII (+ 1903)
• May 23 - Margaret Fuller, journalist, feminist (+ 1850)
• July 21 - Henri Victor Regnault chemist and physicist
• Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie - traveler
• Robert Schumann, composer, pianist
• Henry Rowe, Gothic architect

Deaths

Heads of states

• Denmark - Frederick VI King of Denmark (1808-1839), and King of Norway (1808-1814)
• France - Napoléon I Emperor of France (1804-1814)
• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Spain - Joseph Bonaparte King of Spain (1808-1813)
• Russia - Alexander I Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)

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