Important Historical Events of the year 1810, Year 1810 in History

List of 1810 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1810

What happened in the year 1810?

Date Event
January 1, 1810 Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
February 4, 1810 Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
February 5, 1810 Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
April 19, 1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
May 25, 1810 May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence.
June 7, 1810 The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
June 23, 1810 John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
July 9, 1810 Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
July 20, 1810 Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
August 9, 1810 Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
August 21, 1810 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
August 26, 1810 The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
August 27, 1810 Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
August 28, 1810 Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
September 8, 1810 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 arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
September 16, 1810 With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
September 18, 1810 First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
September 26, 1810 A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates, and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
October 6, 1810 A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
October 12, 1810 The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
October 27, 1810 United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
November 17, 1810 Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.