1810

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This article is about the year 1810. For the book by Felipe Pigna, see 1810 (book).
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1810 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1810
MDCCCX
Ab urbe condita2563
Armenian calendar1259
ԹՎ ՌՄԾԹ
Assyrian calendar6560
Balinese saka calendar1731–1732
Bengali calendar1217
Berber calendar2760
British Regnal year50 Geo. 3 – 51 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2354
Burmese calendar1172
Byzantine calendar7318–7319
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4506 or 4446
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4507 or 4447
Coptic calendar1526–1527
Discordian calendar2976
Ethiopian calendar1802–1803
Hebrew calendar5570–5571
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1866–1867
 - Shaka Samvat1731–1732
 - Kali Yuga4910–4911
Holocene calendar11810
Igbo calendar810–811
Iranian calendar1188–1189
Islamic calendar1224–1225
Japanese calendarBunka 7
(文化７年)
Javanese calendar1736–1737
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4143
Minguo calendar102 before ROC
民前102年
Nanakshahi calendar342
Thai solar calendar2352–2353
Tibetan calendar阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1936 or 1555 or 783
    — to —
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
1937 or 1556 or 784
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.

Events[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April – Kaumualii receives an assurance of the continued independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii.[4]
  • April 2 - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Marie Louise of Austria, Duchess of Parma, in person, in Paris.[5]
  • 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.[6]
  • May 10 – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank, in Ruthwell, Scotland.[7]
  • May 16 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours).[8]
  • 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 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
    • Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
    • Russia acquires Sukhumi through a treaty with the Abkhazian dukes, and declares a protectorate over the whole of Abkhazia.[9]
  • July 11 – Frederick Hasselborough discovers Macquarie Island, in the subantarctic.[10][11]
  • 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 totally 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.[12]
  • 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[]

Goethe publishes Theory of Colours
  • Amadou Lobbo initiates his jihad, in present-day Mali.
  • Ching Shih and Cheung Po Tsai surrender their pirate fleet to the Chinese government.
  • The first steamboat sails on the Ohio River.
  • The General Union of Spinners organizes a strike action, to raise wages in the smaller UK cotton centres to the Manchester level.
  • The Saint Petersburg main military engineering school becomes the first engineering higher learning institution in the Russian Empire, after the addition of officers' classes, and the application of a five-year term of teaching.
  • Friedrich Krupp establishes a steel foundry in Essen.
  • Rocky Point Manor is built in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
  • Moose become extinct in the Caucasus.
  • 18,000 Angolans are sold at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Palm oil sales from West Africa to Britain reach 1,000 tons.
  • 4,500 chests of opium are sold in China.
  • Sake Dean Mahomed opens the Hindoostanee Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in London.[14]
  • Dominique Vivant Denon assists the Hermitage Museum in the acquisition of Rosso Fiorentino's Madonna and Child with Cherubs in Paris

Births[]

January–June[]

Frédéric Chopin
Robert Schumann

July–December[]

Theodor Schwann
  • July 5 – P. T. Barnum, American showman (d. 1891)[17]
  • July 20 – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1900)
  • 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 4 – Eliza McCardle Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 1876)
  • 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[]

  • Nicolae Golescu, 9th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1877)[18]

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 24 – Henry Cavendish, British scientist (b. 1731)
  • March 6 – William Washington, United States soldier (b. 1752)
  • March 7 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
  • March 12 – Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, member of the French Directory (b. 1752)
  • April 25 – Jacob Broom, American businessman, 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 15 – Francis Hews, Baptist preacher in Bedfordshire, England.
  • May 21 – Chevalier d'Eon, French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (b. 1728)
  • May 26 – Catharina Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (d. 1764)
  • June 7 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
  • June 26 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)[19]

July–December[]

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

References[]

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  2. ^ Modern Europe a popular History. 1970. p. 64.
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  4. ^ United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (1985). Native Hawaiian Study Commission Report: Oversight Hearing Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 3, 1984. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 327.
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  8. ^ Götz Hoeppe, Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (Princeton University Press, 2007) p126
  9. ^ George Hewitt, The Abkhazians: A Handbook (Routledge, 2013) p74
  10. ^ Rubin, Jeff (2005). Antarctica. Lonely Planet. p. 170. ISBN 1-74059-094-5. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
  11. ^ Scott, Keith (1993). The Australian Geographic book of Antarctica. Terrey Hills, NSW: Australian Geographic. p. 14. ISBN 1-86276-010-1.
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  13. ^ Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount) (1928). Wellington. Doubleday, Doran., Incorporated. p. 93.
  14. ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820". Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
  15. ^ A baptismal record gives February 22; see Frédéric Chopin for details.
  16. ^ John Daverio (April 10, 1997). Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age". Oxford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-19-983931-5.
  17. ^ Morgen Witzel (March 15, 2005). Encyclopedia of History of American Management. A&C Black. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-84714-469-0.
  18. ^ Radu Florescu (1997). The Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities: A Problem in Anglo-Turkish Diplomacy, 1821-1854. Center for Romanian Studies, The Foundation for Romanian Culture and Studies. p. 204. ISBN 978-973-98091-3-9.
  19. ^ Contemporary; Contemporary Books (1993). Chase's Annual Events: The Day-By-Day Directory to 1994. Contemporary books. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-8092-3732-6.
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