Explore 412 historical events from 1810–1819.
Agostino Roscelli, also known as Augustine Roscelli, and Augustin Roscelli, was an Italian priest who inspired social change in Genoa, Italy for children and disadvantaged women. H…
Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (died 1902)
Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by…
Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1848)
Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon was a Dutch politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1874 to 1877, and again from 1883 to 1888. His son, Theo Heemskerk also se…
Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, 16th and 19th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1897)
Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her…
Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (died 1889)
Lucy Stone was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from …
Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist (died 1893)
Caspar Rudolph von Jhering was a German jurist. He is best known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht, as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and historic…
Rudolf von Jhering, German jurist (died 1892)
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, en…
Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (born 1735)
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist, whose writings are often classified as "Gothic horror". He was frequently referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the s…
Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (born 1775)
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly was a Russian field marshal who figured prominently in the Napoleonic Wars.
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland (born 1761)
Manuel Xavier Rodríguez Erdoíza was a Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Rodríguez was of Basque descent.
Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (born 1785)
Egwale Seyon, throne name Newaya Sagad, was Emperor of Ethiopia from June 1801 to 12 June 1818, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Hezqeyas.
Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.
Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (born 1746)
Warren Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so…
Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (born 1732)
James Carr, son of U.S. Congressman Francis Carr, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine, then a District of Massachusetts.
James Carr, American lawyer and politician (born 1777)
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent settler of what would become Chicago, Illinois, United States and is recognized as the city's founder. The site wher…
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (born 1750)
The Court of King's Bench, formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created in the late 12th to early…
Four days after the Court of King's Bench upheld an English murder suspect's right to a trial by battle in Ashford v Tho
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-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of…
Friends Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one b…
The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais
Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal citie…
In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
Alexander Kaufmann was a German poet and folklorist from Bonn.
Alexander Kaufmann, German poet and educator (died 1893)
Debendranath Tagore was an Indian philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1842. He was the founder in 1848 of the Brahmo relig…
Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher and author (died 1905)
Manuel Robles Pezuela was a military engineer, military commander, and eventually interim president of Mexico during a civil war, the Reform War, being waged between conservatives …
Manuel Robles Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president (died 1862)
Princess Clémentine of Orléans was the sixth child and youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French and Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. She was the mother of Ferdina…
Princess Clémentine of Orléans(died 1907)