Explore 412 historical events from 1810–1819.
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: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the First…
Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia
The Army of the Northwest was a United States Army formation formed at the outset of the War of 1812 and charged with taking control of the state of Ohio, the Indiana Territory, Mi…
The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario.
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying forc…
Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of…
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying forc…
Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
Sir Robert Richard Torrens,, also known as Robert Richard Chute Torrens, was an Irish-born parliamentarian, writer, and land reformer. After a move to London in 1836, he became pro…
Robert Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (died 1884)
Edmond Hébert, French geologist, was born at Villefargau, Yonne.
Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (died 1890)
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, in…
Ivan Goncharov, Russian journalist and author (died 1891)
James Robert Hope-Scott was a British barrister and Tractarian.
James Hope-Scott, English lawyer and academic (died 1873)
Thomas Lanier Clingman, known as the "Prince of Politicians," was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845…
Thomas Lanier Clingman, American general and politician (died 1897)
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: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
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: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia,…
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying forc…
Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long…
Johann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was…
Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (died 1910)
Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston was a 19th-century American writer from Massachusetts. The youngest daughter of Boston's mayor and Harvard University president Josiah Quincy III, she w…
Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American writer (died 1899)
Thomas Lanier Clingman, known as the "Prince of Politicians," was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845…
Thomas L. Clingman, American general and politician (died 1897)
Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin was a Russian organic chemist.
Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (died 1880)
Bertalan Szemere was a Hungarian poet and nationalist who became the third Prime Minister of Hungary during the short period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 when Hungary was in…
Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1869)
Spencer Perceval was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British pr…
Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1762)
Hieronymus Joseph Franz de Paula Graf Colloredo von Wallsee und Melz was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 to 1772 and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1772 until 1803, when the pr…
Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (born 1732)
Yakov Petrovich Kulnev was, along with Pyotr Bagration and Aleksey Yermolov, one of the most popular Russian military leaders at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Count Alexander Su…
Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (born 1763)
Spencer Perceval was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British pr…
Spencer Perceval was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, becoming the only British prime minister to be assassina
The Conference of Dresden was a May 1812 gathering of European leaders arranged by Napoleon I of France as part of his preparations for the invasion of Russia. It was intended as …
The Conference of Dresden began, an attempt by Napoleon to secure support for his planned invasion of Russia
The First French Empire declared war on Russian Empire on 22 June [O.S. 10 June] 1812, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later. The declaration of war was presented in a diplom…
France declared war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later