Explore 509 historical events from 1810–1819.
Sir Robert Richard Torrens,, also known as Robert Richard Chute Torrens, was an Irish-born parliamentarian, writer, and land reformer. After a move to London in 1836, he became pro…
Robert Richard Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (died 1884)
Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen was a Danish botanist and physicist.
Ferdinand Didrichsen, Danish botanist and physicist (died 1887)
Samuel Colt was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commerc…
Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (died 1862)
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of …
Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English art collector and philanthropist (died 1906)
Charles Frederick Beyer was a celebrated German-British locomotive designer and builder, and co-founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was the co-founder and head e…
Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock & Company (died 1876)
Esther Hobart Morris was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on Februa…
Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragette and judge (died 1902)
Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company.
Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (died 1890)
John Clifford Pemberton was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Seminole Wars and the Mexican–American War. He resigned his commission and …
John C. Pemberton, United States soldier and Confederate general (died 1881)
Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (died 1874)
Charlotte Fowler Wells was an American phrenologist and publisher from New York. Along with her brothers, Orson Squire Fowler and Lorenzo Niles Fowler, her sister-in-law, Lydia Fol…
Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (died 1901)
James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Newark (1853–1872) and as Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–1877).
James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (died 1877)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, journalist and newspaper proprietor. Le Fanu is considered by literary critics to be among the greatest gho…
Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (died 1873)
Ernst Curtius was a German archaeologist, historian and museum director.
Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (died 1896)
James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He pl…
James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (died 1897)
Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet was a Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation. The English spelling of the name—George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling…
George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (died 1873)
Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, and Catholic priest. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, t…
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer, and historian (died 1874)
Joséphine Bonaparte was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's …
Joséphine de Beauharnais, French empress, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1763)
Captain Matthew Flinders was an English Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He…
Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (born 1774)
John Johnson was an English architect and surveyor to the county of Essex. He is best known for designing the Shire Hall, Chelmsford.
John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (born 1732)
Colonel Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS, was an American-born British military officer, scientist and inventor. Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, he supported the Loyalist c…
Benjamin Thompson, American-English physicist and colonel (born 1753)
Arthur Phillip was a Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
Arthur Phillip, English admiral and politician, 1st Governor of New South Wales (born 1738)
Maria Carolina of Austria was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV and III, who later became King of the Two Sicilies. As de facto ruler of her husband's kin…
Maria Carolina of Austria, queen consort of Naples and Sicily (born 1752)
Major-General Robert Ross was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
Robert Ross, Irish general (born 1766)
The Grand Jubilee of 1814 was a public holiday and celebration in the United Kingdom held on 1 August 1814. The event marked the centenary of the accession of George I, the first k…
Britain celebrated a Grand Jubilee to mark 100 years since the accession of George I and 16 years since the start of…