1810 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1810?
- January 1, 1810 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
- January 10, 1810 – Napoleon divorces his first wife Joséphine.
- February 4, 1810 – The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
- February 5, 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 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.
- May 25, 1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
- June 23, 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- July 9, 1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
- July 20, 1810 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
- 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.
- August 28, 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
- September 8, 1810 – 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, Oregon.
- September 16, 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
- 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.
- September 26, 1810 – 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, 1810 – 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.
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