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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
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War
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
Category:1810
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