Explore 620 historical events from 1810–1819.
Alvin Saunders was a U.S. senator from Nebraska, as well as the final and longest-serving governor of the Nebraska Territory, a tenure he served during most of the American Civil W…
Alvin Saunders, Territorial Governor and Senator from Nebraska (died 1899)
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was …
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (died 1898)
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian …
Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter and illustrator (died 1900)
Martin Georg Emil Körber was a Baltic German pastor, composer, writer and choir leader.
Martin Körber, German pastor, composer, and conductor (died 1893)
Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen, was an Austrian Habsburg general. He was the grandson of Emperor Leopold II and one of the chief military ad…
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (died 1895)
Alexander Hamilton Bailey was an American politician, a United States representative and judge from New York.
Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1874)
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus was a French Catholic nun who founded the Religious of the Assumption and is a Catholic saint.
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (died 1898)
Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, was a politician and Father of Confederation, the union of British North American colonies into Canada.
Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (died 1893)
Gustav Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Trautschold was a German-Russian geologist and paleontologist and also pharmacist. From 1869 to 1888 he was a professor at the Petrovsky Agricultural…
Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold, German geologist and paleontologist (died 1902)
Ramón María de las Mercedes Pérez de Campoamor y Campoosorio, known as Ramón de Campoamor, was a Spanish realist poet and philosopher.
Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (died 1901)
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India.
Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (died 1898)
Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He is considered to be the most important nineteenth-centur…
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright (died 1875)
Pierre Athanase Larousse was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, inc…
Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer and author (died 1875)
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father. During the American Revolution he was a Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, where …
Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1734)
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in bot…
Germaine de Staël, French philosopher and author (born 1766)
Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Jane Austen, English novelist (born 1775)
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families migra…
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (born 1739)
Admiral of the Blue Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet, GCB was a Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator and politician who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of …
Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, 39th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1747)
Jacques Bernard Modeste d'Anselme was a French general of the French Revolutionary Army, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var which soon became the Army of Italy. …
Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, French general (born 1740)
Étienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer of the late classical and early romantic periods. He was known as "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution". H…
Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French pianist and composer (born 1763)
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, the United States and Lithuania. He foug…
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)
Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a natural philosopher who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He travelled to the West Indies as part of an Austrian expedition and col…
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Dutch-Austrian chemist and botanist (born 1727)
Georg Anton Schäffer was a German medical doctor in the employ of the Russian-American Company who attempted to conquer Hawaii for the Company and, ultimately, the Russian Empire. …
Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for…
William Windham Sadler was an English balloonist. His father was aviation pioneer James Sadler, and, after an education in engineering, Sadler followed in his father's footsteps. H…
Windham William Sadler made the first successful aerial crossing of the Irish Sea, which he accomplished by balloon.