Explore 412 historical events from 1810–1819.
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Su…
The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched
The Schäffer affair was a diplomatic episode instigated in 1815 by Georg Anton Schäffer who attempted to seize the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian Empire. After two years, his sc…
Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer…
Patrick Branwell Brontë was an English poet and artist. He was the only son of the Brontë literary family, and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.
Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (died 1848)
Marie Louise von François was a German writer, best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She was a friend and correspondent of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbac…
Louise von François, German author (died 1893)
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he serve…
Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (died 1911)
Albert von Kölliker was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and histologist.
Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (died 1905)
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living …
Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (died 1862)
Alvin Saunders was a U.S. senator from Nebraska, as well as the final and longest-serving governor of the Nebraska Territory, a tenure he served during most of the American Civil W…
Alvin Saunders, Territorial Governor and Senator from Nebraska (died 1899)
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian …
Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter and illustrator (died 1900)
Martin Georg Emil Körber was a Baltic German pastor, composer, writer and choir leader.
Martin Körber, German pastor, composer, and conductor (died 1893)
Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen, was an Austrian Habsburg general. He was the grandson of Emperor Leopold II and one of the chief military ad…
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (died 1895)
Alexander Hamilton Bailey was an American politician, a United States representative and judge from New York.
Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1874)
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was …
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (died 1898)
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus was a French Catholic nun who founded the Religious of the Assumption and is a Catholic saint.
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (died 1898)
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father. During the American Revolution he was a Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, where …
Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1734)
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in bot…
Germaine de Staël, French philosopher and author (born 1766)
Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Jane Austen, English novelist (born 1775)
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families migra…
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (born 1739)
Georg Anton Schäffer was a German medical doctor in the employ of the Russian-American Company who attempted to conquer Hawaii for the Company and, ultimately, the Russian Empire. …
Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for…
William Windham Sadler was an English balloonist. His father was aviation pioneer James Sadler, and, after an education in engineering, Sadler followed in his father's footsteps. H…
Windham William Sadler made the first successful aerial crossing of the Irish Sea, which he accomplished by balloon.
The Battle of Seven Oaks—also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre and the Seven Oaks Incident—was a violent confrontation of the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) an…
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Thomas Hazlehurst was known nationally as "the Chapel Builder" and more locally as "the Prince of Methodism" or "the Prince of the Wesleyans". He was given these titles because of…
Thomas Hazlehurst, English architect and philanthropist (died 1876)
Bogoslav Šulek was a Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer. He was very influential in creating Croatian terminology in the areas of social and natural sciences, techno…
Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (died 1895)
Littleport is a town in East Cambridgeshire, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Ely and 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Welney, …
A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread