Explore 620 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)
Alexander Hamilton Rice was an American politician and businessman from Massachusetts. He served as Mayor of Boston from 1856 to 1857, a U.S. congressman during the American Civil …
Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1895)
José María Castro Madriz was a Costa Rican intellectual and statesman who served as President of Costa Rica from 1847 to 1849 and from 1866 to 1868. Inaugurated at age 29, he was t…
José María Castro Madriz, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica (died 1892)
Edmund Besley Court Kennedy was an explorer in Australia in the mid-19th century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy explor…
Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer and surveyor (died 1848)
Richard Jordan Gatling was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun.
Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (died 1903)
Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer and teacher.
Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (died 1882)
Lucy Goode Brooks was an enslaved American woman who later became instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.
Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans (died 1900)
Thomas Talbot was an American textile mill owner and politician from Massachusetts, United States. Talbot ran a major textile business, involving chemical dyeworks and the weaving …
Thomas Talbot, American businessman and politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (died 1886)
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe w…
Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (died 1884)
John Henninger Reagan was an American and Confederate politician from Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas seceded from the United S…
John Henninger Reagan, American judge and politician, 3rd Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1905)
Alexander Dreyschock was a Czech pianist and composer. He was the brother of Raimund Dreyschock and the uncle of Felix Dreyschock.
Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)
William Forster was a pastoral squatter, colonial British politician, Premier of New South Wales from 27 October 1859 to 9 March 1860, and poet.
William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (died 1882)
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.
Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (died 1894)
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)