Explore 412 historical events from 1810–1819.
Charles-Pierre-François Augereau, duc de Castiglione was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic …
Pierre Augereau, French general (born 1757)
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencie…
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (born 1751)
Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman. Although his works are traditionally cons…
Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician (born 1743)
Johann August Apel was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig.
Johann August Apel, German jurist and author (born 1771)
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza, commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Hispanic military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revoluti…
Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general (born 1750)
The Ely and Littleport riots occurred between 22 and 24 May 1816 in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, caused by high unemployment and rising grain costs, similar to the general unre…
A riot broke out in Littleport, England, over high unemployment and rising grain costs, spreading to Ely the next day be
"Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream…
The poems Kubla Khan and Christabel by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pictured) were published
Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 an…
The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a…
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant. He partook in the Macartney Embassy to China, then worked and studied in South Africa, a…
Sir John Barrow, secretary at the Admiralty, rejected a proposal to use Francis Ronalds's electrical telegraph,…
Tristan da Cunha, colloquially known as Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of three constituent parts of the British Overseas Ter…
The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony…
The Second Serbian Uprising was the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re-annexation of the country to the Ottoman E…
The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts s
The Neapolitan War, also known as the Austro-Neapolitan War, was a conflict between the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empire. It started on 15 March 1815, when King…
Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive eng
East Indiamen were merchant ships that operated under charter or licence for European trading companies which traded with the East Indies between the 17th and 19th centuries. The t…
The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, w
The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of 24 August 1815 is one of two fundamental documents governing the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as the fundamental law of …
The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the C…
Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (died 1882)
Sir William Buell Richards was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge, and served as the first Chief Justice of Canada.
William Buell Richards, Canadian lawyer and judge, 1st Chief Justice of Canada (died 1889)
Edward Tompkins (1815–1872) was an American lawyer. He is best known for endowing a chair at the University of California where he had been elected to the board of regents.
Edward Tompkins, American lawyer and politician (died 1872)
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 promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional o…
End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set
The Battle of Ligny, in which French troops of the Armée du Nord under the command of Napoleon I defeated part of a Prussian army under Field Marshal Blücher, was fought on 16 June…
Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the First…
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhar
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theo…
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in…
Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (died 1896)
Sir Adye Douglas was an Australian lawyer and politician, and first class cricket player, who played one match for Tasmania. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 August 1884 to 8 Mar…
Adye Douglas, English-Australian cricketer and politician, 15th Premier of Tasmania (died 1906)