Today in History for Year 1810

Months in Year 1810: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 31 of 31

Jan 19th - Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C)
Feb 1st - 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
Feb 1st - Seville, Spain surrenders to French
Feb 1st - US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
Feb 4th - Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
Feb 20th - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, executed.
Feb 28th - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
Mar 6th - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
Mar 18th - "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY
Apr 19th - Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
Apr 20th - The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain.
Apr 27th - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
May 3rd - Lord Byron swims Hellespont
May 25th - The Primera Junta (local gouvernment) is established in Argentina
May 25th - In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Spanish Viceroy Cisneros during Semana de Mayo.
Jun 23rd - John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
Jul 1st - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
Jul 4th - French troops occupy Amsterdam
Jul 9th - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
Jul 10th - Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France
Jul 20th - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
Aug 9th - Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
Aug 21st - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
Sep 16th - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event
Sep 18th - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Sep 26th - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
Oct 26th - US annexes western Florida
Oct 27th - US annexes West Florida from Spain
Dec 10th - Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
Dec 15th - 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
Dec 22nd - British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 89 of 89

Jan 3rd - Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jul 24]
Jan 3rd - Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness
Jan 5th - Auguste Mermet, composer
Jan 10th - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)
Jan 12th - Ferdinand II, king of Sicily
Jan 29th - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician
Jan 31st - Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Feb 1st - Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black American orator and abolitionist
Feb 5th - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
Feb 8th - Norbert Burgmuller, composer
Feb 11th - Loisa Puget, composer
Feb 22nd - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
Feb 22nd - Holger Simon Paulli, composer
Feb 28th - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian
Mar 1st - Frederic Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
Mar 2nd - Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903)
Mar 9th - Jean-Georges Kastner, composer
Mar 10th - John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)
Mar 10th - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
Composer Frederic Chopin (Feb 22nd) Mar 15th - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
Mar 27th - A Glabbrenner, writer
Mar 27th - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
Apr 6th - Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
Apr 11th - Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
Apr 21st - John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
Apr 23rd - Thomas Wright, historian
Apr 28th - Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
May 2nd - Hans Christian Lumbye, composer
May 2nd - Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
May 8th - James Cooper, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
May 9th - Louis Gallait, historical painter
May 9th - WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I
May 10th - James Shields, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
May 15th - Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885
May 24th - Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
May 28th - Alexandre Calamo, Switz, painter/etcher/lithographer
May 29th - Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
May 29th - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer
May 29th - Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
May 31st - Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886
Jun 9th - Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer
Jun 17th - F Freiligrath, writer
Jun 19th - Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels)
Jun 23rd - Franziska"Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina
Jun 30th - Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
Jul 1st - Walter White, secretary (NAACP)
Jul 2nd - Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885
Jul 4th - Phineas T Barnum, circus magnate
Jul 5th - Phineas Taylor Barnum, Bethel Conn, circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey)
Jul 11th - Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor
Jul 18th - Peter Singer, composer
Jul 21st - Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist
Aug 10th - Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
Aug 10th - Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect
Aug 14th - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
Aug 21st - Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Sep 2nd - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
Sep 3rd - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
Sep 4th - Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships
Sep 7th - Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858)
Sep 10th - Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Sep 20th - Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Sep 29th - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist
Oct 4th - Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son
Oct 13th - James Shedden Palmer, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
Oct 19th - Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
Oct 22nd - Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Oct 23rd - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)
Oct 28th - Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Nov 2nd - Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Nov 7th - Fritz Reuter, German novelist
Nov 9th - Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1872
Nov 9th - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
Nov 10th - George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
Nov 16th - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
Nov 18th - Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)
Nov 18th - Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1875
Nov 19th - August Willich, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
Nov 26th - William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British industralist (hydraulic crane)
Nov 28th - William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect
Nov 30th - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
Dec 1st - Joseph Gungl, composer
Dec 7th - Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
Dec 7th - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
Dec 11th - Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
Dec 13th - Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
Dec 21st - Ludwig Schuncke, composer
Dec 24th - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)
Dec 25th - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Feb 11th - French leader Napoleon I marries 2nd wife Marie-Louise of Austria
Aug 8th - Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib marries Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moves to Delhi.
Oct 12th - 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.

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

Jan 10th - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 32 of 32

Jan 7th - Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37
Jan 20th - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
Jan 28th - Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead
Feb 20th - Andreas Hofer, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42
Feb 20th - Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer, dies at 57
Feb 24th - Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
Feb 26th - Johann Ernst Rembt, composer, dies at 60
Mar 7th - Albertus H Wiese, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at about 48
Mar 7th - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
Mar 21st - Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies
Apr 7th - Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61
Apr 10th - Konrad Back, composer, dies at 60
Apr 11th - Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75
May 2nd - Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b.1740)
May 21st - Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
Jun 1st - Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47
Jun 7th - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
Jun 13th - J G Seume, writer, dies at 47
Jun 26th - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
Jul 15th - Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer, dies at 75
Jul 19th - Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34
Aug 12th - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
Sep 9th - Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
Sep 20th - Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28
Oct 15th - Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
Oct 16th - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
Oct 19th - Jean-Georges Noverre, French choreographer (ballet d'action), dies
Oct 21st - Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52
Nov 1st - Georg Anton Kreusser, composer, dies at 64
Nov 11th - Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77
Nov 26th - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
Dec 19th - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68