1810 in France

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1810
in
France

Decades:
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
See also:Other events of 1810
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Events from the year 1810 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • First Consul / EmperorNapoléon Bonaparte / Napoleon I

Events[]

  • 6 January - Treaty of Paris ends war between France and Sweden.
  • 10 January - Marriage of Napoleon and Joséphine de Beauharnais is annulled.
  • 4 March - French Army retreats from Portugal.
  • 11 March - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
  • 26 April - Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo begins. Spanish garrison besieged by French forces.
  • 9 July - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
  • 9 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo ends in French victory.
  • 24 July - Peninsular War: Battle of the Côa.
  • 25 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Almeida begins. French lay siege to British and Portuguese forces.
  • 20 August - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Grand Port, Mauritius. French victory over British fleet.
  • 21 August - One of Napoleon's marshals, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, was elected crown prince of Sweden.
  • 27 August - Peninsular War: Siege of Almeida ends with French victory.
  • 27 September - Battle of Bussaco, Anglo-Portuguese victory over the French.
  • Peugeot engineering business established.

Births[]

January to June[]

July to December[]

  • 14 July - Aristide Boucicaut, creator of Le Bon Marché department stores (died 1877).
  • 21 July - Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist (died 1878).
  • 4 August - Maurice de Guérin, poet (died 1839).
  • 15 August - Louise Colet, poet (died 1876).
  • 12 September - Ernest Courtot de Cissey, General (died 1882).
  • 29 October - Sophie d'Arbouville, writer (died 1850).
  • 8 November - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (died 1861).
  • 7 December — Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (died 1882)
  • 11 December - Alfred de Musset, dramatist, poet and novelist (died 1857).

Full date unknown[]

Deaths[]

January to June[]

  • 1 March - Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter (born 1736).
  • 2 May - Jean-Louis Baudelocque, obstetrician (born 1745).
  • 21 May - Chevalier d'Eon, diplomat, spy and soldier who lived the first half of her life as a man and the second half as a woman (born 1728).
  • 29 May - François-Urbain Domergue, grammarian and journalist (born 1745).
  • 26 June - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, airship inventor (born 1740).

July to December[]

Full date unknown[]

See also[]

References[]

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