1810 - What happened in 1810 ?

January 1810

Wednesday 10:

Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.

February 1810

Sunday 04:

British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.

Sunday 11:

Napoléon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.

Tuesday 20:

Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, was executed.

April 1810

Thursday 19:

Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.

May 1810

Thursday 03:

Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.

Friday 25:

In the May Revolution, armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.

June 1810

Saturday 23:

John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.

July 1810

Wednesday 04:

The French occupy Amsterdam.

Friday 20:

History of Colombia: Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.

September 1810

Saturday 08:

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 arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men established fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.

Sunday 16:

With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo proclaims Mexico's independence from Spain

Tuesday 18:

First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it was in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and it is commemorated as such.

Wednesday 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 1810

Friday 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

Saturday 27:

United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.