Explore 620 historical events from 1810–1819.
Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army,…
Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (died 1820)
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt was a French chemist, born in Alsace and active in Paris, Montpellier, and his native Strasbourg.
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist and academic (died 1856)
Sir Charles Sladen,, Australian colonial politician, was the 6th Premier of Victoria.
Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (died 1884)
Carl Zeiss was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Zeiss. Zeiss gathered a group of gifte…
Carl Zeiss, German lens maker, created the Optical instrument (died 1888)
Aurora Magdalena von Qvanten was a Swedish writer, translator and artist who used the pseudonym Turdus Merula.
Aurora von Qvanten, Swedish writer and artist (died 1907)
Mary Hall Adams was an American book editor and letter writer. Her writing includes, Never give up, or, How children may be happy and The Rainbow and Other Stories: A Juvenile Gift…
Mary Hall Barrett Adams, American book editor and letter writer (died 1860)
Georg August Rudolph was a German politician and from 4 December 1856 until 2 August 1884 mayor of Marburg.
Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (died 1893)
Ursula Frayne was an Irish nun who became a Mother Superior of the Sisters of Mercy and spent her life in missionary work, initially in Canada but largely in Australia developing s…
Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (died 1885)
Sir John Robertson was a London-born Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales on five occasions. Robertson is best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robe…
John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)
Malwida von Meysenbug was a German writer, her work including Memoirs of an Idealist, the first volume of which she published anonymously in 1869. As well, she was a friend of Frie…
Malwida von Meysenbug, German writer (died 1903)
Johann Heinrich Abicht was a German philosopher.
Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher, author, and academic (born 1762)
Samuel Dexter was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, De…
Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Tr
Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini.
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (born 1741)
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)
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)
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)
Santō Kyōden was a Japanese artist, writer, and the owner of a tobacco shop during the Edo period. His real name was Iwase Samuru , and he was also known popularly as Kyōya Denzō …
Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (born 1761)
Frederick I was the ruler of Württemberg from 1797 to his death. He was the last duke of Württemberg from 1797 to 1803 and then the only elector of Württemberg from 1803 to 1806. W…
Frederick I of Württemberg (born 1754)
HMS Whiting, built in 1811 by Thomas Kemp as a Baltimore pilot schooner, was launched as Arrow. On 8 May 1812 a British navy vessel seized her under Orders in Council, for trading …
HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar on the coast of Cornwall, England.
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…