Explore 620 historical events from 1810–1819.
Baltimore, also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S. city with a population of 585,708 at the 2020 ce…
In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key…
Esther Hobart Morris was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on Februa…
Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragette and judge (died 1902)
Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company.
Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (died 1890)
John Clifford Pemberton was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Seminole Wars and the Mexican–American War. He resigned his commission and …
John C. Pemberton, United States soldier and Confederate general (died 1881)
The Battle of Baltimore took place between British and American forces on September 12–14, 1814, during the War of 1812. Defending American forces repulsed sea and land invasions o…
Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the…
The War of 1812 was a conflict initiated by the United States against the United Kingdom and its allies fought mainly in North America and at sea during the wider Napoleonic Wars. …
War of 1812: British forces abandon their unsuccessful siege of Fort Erie.
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional o…
The Congress of Vienna opens with the intention of redrawing Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon in…
The War of 1812 was a conflict initiated by the United States against the United Kingdom and its allies fought mainly in North America and at sea during the wider Napoleonic Wars. …
War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of …
Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English art collector and philanthropist (died 1906)
Charles Frederick Beyer was a celebrated German-British locomotive designer and builder, and co-founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was the co-founder and head e…
Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock & Company (died 1876)
Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (died 1874)
James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Newark (1853–1872) and as Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–1877).
James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (died 1877)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, journalist and newspaper proprietor. Le Fanu is considered by literary critics to be among the greatest gho…
Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (died 1873)
Charlotte Fowler Wells was an American phrenologist and publisher from New York. Along with her brothers, Orson Squire Fowler and Lorenzo Niles Fowler, her sister-in-law, Lydia Fol…
Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (died 1901)
Ernst Curtius was a German archaeologist, historian and museum director.
Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (died 1896)
James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He pl…
James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (died 1897)
Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet was a Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation. The English spelling of the name—George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling…
George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (died 1873)
Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, and Catholic priest. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, t…
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer, and historian (died 1874)
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone was an early American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, and philanthropist. Stone was the first woman in the United States to take classes of young women…
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (died 1900)
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorize…
Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (died 1875)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, was a French-American Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based …
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (died 1888)
Yakiv Holovatsky was a Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of Galician Russophiles. He was a member of the R…
Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (died 1888)
Theodoros Vryzakis was a Greek painter, known mostly for his historical scenes. He was one of the founders of the "Munich School", composed of Greek artists who had studied in that…
Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter (died 1878)
Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours was the second son of King Louis-Philippe I of France and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.
Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (died 1896)