Explore 208 historical events from 1810–1819.
Count Nikolay Mikhailovich Kamensky was a Russian general, younger son of Field Marshal Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky and his wife, Princess Anna Pavlovna Shcherbatova (1749-18…
Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (born 1776)
Henry Jerome de Salis, DD, FRS, FSA, was an English churchman. He was Rector of St. Antholin in the City of London and Vicar of Wing in Buckinghamshire. He was also known as: Revd …
Henry Jerome de Salis, English priest (born 1740)
Samuel Dexter was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, De…
Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Tr
The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate…
The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and various islands and islets…
Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and
Juraj Dobrila was a Croatian Catholic bishop and benefactor from Istria who advocated for greater national rights for South Slavic peoples, Croats and Slovenes, in Istria under Aus…
Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop and national revivalist (died 1882)
Mary Moser was an English painter who was one of the most celebrated female artists in 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, M…
Mary Moser, English painter and academic (born 1744)
The Second Serbian Uprising was the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re-annexation of the country to the Ottoman E…
The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts s
James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended…
James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (died 1894)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newto…
French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following
SS Savannah was an American hybrid sailing ship/sidewheel steamer built in 1818. She was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, transiting mainly under sail power from Ma…
SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atla
The Argentine Constitution of 1819 was a Constitution drafted by the Congress of Tucumán in 1819, shortly after the Argentine War of Independence. It was promoted by Buenos Aires b…
The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated
The 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake occurred at about 18:45 to 18:50 local time on 16 June 1819. It had an estimated magnitude ranging from 7.7 to 8.2 on the moment magnitude scale a…
A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6-metre-high (20
SS Savannah was an American hybrid sailing ship/sidewheel steamer built in 1818. She was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, transiting mainly under sail power from Ma…
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868. Céspedes, who was a plantation owner in Cuba, freed his slaves an…
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (died 1874)
Sir Edward William Stafford served as the third premier of New Zealand on three occasions in the mid 19th century. His total time in office is the longest of any leader without a p…
Edward Stafford, Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1901)
Ezra Abbot was an American biblical scholar.
Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (died 1884)
Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungar…
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1895)
Johann Voldemar Jannsen was an Estonian journalist. He was one of the earliest figures of the Estonian national awakening, which he promoted through his newspaper, the Eesti Postim…
Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (died 1890)
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of …
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (died 1901)
Julia Ward Howe was an American author and poet, known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as new lyrics to the song "John Brown's Body," and the original 1870 pacifist M…
Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (died 1910)
Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo was a British Army officer who rose to the rank of general. He saw active service in India, helped to run a military railway in the Crimean War an…
William McMurdo, English general (died 1894)
Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world lit…
Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (died 1892)
Francis V, Duke of Modena, Reggio and Guastalla, Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Mirandola and of Massa, Prince of Carrara was a reigning pri…
Francis V, Duke of Modena (died 1875)
Anton Maria Anderledy was a Swiss Jesuit, elected the twenty-third Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1892)
Johan Barthold Jongkind was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of impressionism.
Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)
Anna Magdalene Thoresen, née Kragh was a Danish-Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is said to have inspired a number of other writers to model charact…
Magdalene Thoresen, Danish writer (died 1903)
John Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.
John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1892)
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christi…
Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (died 1875)
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic co…
Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1877)
Henry Joseph Gardner was the 23rd governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1855 to 1858. Gardner, a Know Nothing, was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know Nothin…
Henry Gardner, American merchant and politician, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1892)
Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The …
Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (died 1880)
Mary Moser was an English painter who was one of the most celebrated female artists in 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, M…
Mary Moser, English painter and academic (born 1744)
Kamehameha I, also known as Kamehameha the Great, was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The state of Hawaii gave a statue of him to the National Statuary Hall…
Kamehameha I, king of the Hawaiian Islands (born 1738)