1810

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1780s  1790s  1800s  – 1810s –  1820s  1830s  1840s
Years:	1807 1808 1809 – 1810 – 1811 1812 1813

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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 10 – Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled
• January 20 – Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer executed
• March 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.
• June 8 – Birth of Robert Schumann, German composer.
• June 23 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• July – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
• July 20 – Colombia declares independence from Spain.
• August 6 – City of Mompos in modern-day Colombia is declares independence from the Spanish Empire
• 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 – Dieciséis de septiembre, the Mexican War of Independence of the Republic of Mexico
• September 18 – Chile forms the National Junta, which is their first passage towards independence.
• 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 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.
• October 27 – United States annexes West Florida from Spain
• 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
• Amadou Lobbo initiates his jihad in present-day Mali.
• Russia acquires Sokhumi 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

Births

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1810 Media

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  April 19: Venezuela becomes first South American nation to declare independence from Spain.

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  May 22: Argentina declares independence from Spain.

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  July 20: in Colombia, the United Provinces of New Granada declare independence from Spain.

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  August 20–27: Battle of Grand Port

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  The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin

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  Robert Schumann in an 1850 daguerreotype.

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  Theodor Schwann (1810-1882), Lithographie von Rudolf Hoffmann, 1857

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  Picture and signature of the noted natural philosopher, Henry Cavendish

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  Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Deaths

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