Explore 620 historical events from 1810–1819.
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)
Admiral of the White Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and …
Robert Calder, Scottish admiral (born 1745)
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United Stat…
Abigail Adams, American writer and second First Lady of the United States (born 1744)
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.
Manuel Carlos María Francisco Piar Gómez was General-in-Chief of the army fighting Spain during the Venezuelan War of Independence.
Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Col…
Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
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…
Giovanni Battista Belzoni, sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to E…
Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, uncovered the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings.
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)
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)