1810
Events
- January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled
- January 20 - Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer executed
- March 11 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
- April 19 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
- May 10 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall.
- May 25 - Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy from Spain and establish a provincial government for Argentina.
- June 23 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- July - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
- July 20 - Colombia declares independence from Spain.
- September 8 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
- September 16 - Dieciséis de septiembre, the Independence Day of the Republic of Mexico
- September 26 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
- October 12 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
- King George III of England recognized as insane
- Amadou Lobbo initiates the Tukulor War in present-day Mali.
- Russia acquires Sukhumi through a treaty with Abkhazian dukes, and declares a protectorate over the whole of Abkhazia.
Ongoing events
Births
- January 3 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish traveler.
- February 5 - Ole Bull, Norwegian Violinist
- February 11 - Loisa Puget, composer
- March 1 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (d. 1849)
- March 2 - Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
- May 23 - Margaret Fuller, journalist, feminist (d. 1850)
- June 8 - Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist.
- July 21 - Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist
- September 29 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist
- October 10 - James Wilson Marshall, contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill.
- Henry Rowe, Gothic architect
Deaths
- February 20 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero, is executed by the French at Mantova
- July 19 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia
- November 11 - Johann Zoffany, painter