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 27, 1810 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- June 7, 1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
- June 23, 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- July 4, 1810 – The French occupy Amsterdam.
- 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.
- October 27, 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- November 17, 1810 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
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