Explore 620 historical events from 1810–1819.
Charles Frederick was Margrave, Elector and later Grand Duke of Baden from 1738 until his death.
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1728)
Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor, commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic p…
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and soldier (born 1753)
Stevens Thomson Mason was an American politician who served as the first governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840. Coming to political prominence at an early age, Mason was appointed…
Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (died 1843)
Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, from Lisbon, was the foremost Portuguese satirical poet of the 18th century. Beginning at age 20, Tolentino studied law for three years at the Univers…
Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and author (born 1740)
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was a French military officer and explorer. After having served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War, Bougainville later …
Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (born 1729)
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at var…
Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (born 1741)
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet was a British painter and politician.
Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (born 1735)
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: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera (depi
Captain Sir Charles Marsh Schomberg was an officer of the British Royal Navy, who served during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and later served as Lieutenant-Governor of…
A British squadron under Charles Marsh Schomberg defeated a French force off Tamatave, Madagascar, that was attempting t
David Thompson was a British fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he travelled 90,000 k…
British explorer David Thompson posted a notice at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern…
Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor, commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic p…
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (depicted), a leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish forces in…
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
The May Revolution was a week-long series of events that took place from 18 to 25 May 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. This Spanish colony …
May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the
The Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres (sic) was a newspaper originating in Buenos Aires, United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, in 1810. It was initially used to give publicity to the gover…
The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina
John Jacob Astor was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into t…
John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hu…
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
Santiago Antonio María de Liniers y Bremond, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, KOM, OM was a Spanish military officer and a viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Although bor…
The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his…
The Cry of Dolores occurred in Dolores, Mexico, on 16 September 1810, when Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church bell and gave the call to arms that trigg…
With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
John Putnam Chapin served as the 10th Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1846–1847) for the Whig Party.
John Putnam Chapin, American politician, 10th Mayor of Chicago (died 1864)
Thomas Adolphus Trollope was an English writer who was the author of more than 60 books. He lived most of his life in Italy creating a renowned villa in Florence with his first wif…
Thomas Adolphus Trollope, English journalist and author (died 1892)
Bogotá is the capital and largest city of Colombia. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding dep…
Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hu…
Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
Charles XIV John was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty. In Norway, he is known as Charles III John ; befor…
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–15) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–04) under the First Con…
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port…