Explore 509 historical events from 1810–1819.
Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army,…
Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (died 1820)
Carl Zeiss was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Zeiss. Zeiss gathered a group of gifte…
Carl Zeiss, German lens maker, created the Optical instrument (died 1888)
Johann Heinrich Abicht was a German philosopher.
Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher, author, and academic (born 1762)
Samuel Dexter was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, De…
Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Tr
Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini.
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (born 1741)
Charles-Pierre-François Augereau, duc de Castiglione was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic …
Pierre Augereau, French general (born 1757)
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencie…
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (born 1751)
Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman. Although his works are traditionally cons…
Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician (born 1743)
Johann August Apel was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig.
Johann August Apel, German jurist and author (born 1771)
HMS Whiting, built in 1811 by Thomas Kemp as a Baltimore pilot schooner, was launched as Arrow. On 8 May 1812 a British navy vessel seized her under Orders in Council, for trading …
HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar on the coast of Cornwall, England.
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza, commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Hispanic military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revoluti…
Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general (born 1750)
The Ely and Littleport riots occurred between 22 and 24 May 1816 in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, caused by high unemployment and rising grain costs, similar to the general unre…
A riot broke out in Littleport, England, over high unemployment and rising grain costs, spreading to Ely the next day be
"Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream…
The poems Kubla Khan and Christabel by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pictured) were published
Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 an…
The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a…
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant. He partook in the Macartney Embassy to China, then worked and studied in South Africa, a…
Sir John Barrow, secretary at the Admiralty, rejected a proposal to use Francis Ronalds's electrical telegraph,…
Tristan da Cunha, colloquially known as Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of three constituent parts of the British Overseas Ter…
The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony…
Louis XVIII, known as the Desired, was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. Before his reign, he spent 23 years in exi…
Facing rising discontent in France, Louis XVIII was forced to dissolve the Chambre introuvable, the legislature…
East Indiamen were merchant ships that operated under charter or licence for European trading companies which traded with the East Indies between the 17th and 19th centuries. The t…
The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, w
The Second Serbian Uprising was the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re-annexation of the country to the Ottoman E…
The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts s
The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of 24 August 1815 is one of two fundamental documents governing the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as the fundamental law of …
The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the C…
Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (died 1882)
Sir William Buell Richards was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge, and served as the first Chief Justice of Canada.
William Buell Richards, Canadian lawyer and judge, 1st Chief Justice of Canada (died 1889)
The Neapolitan War, also known as the Austro-Neapolitan War, was a conflict between the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empire. It started on 15 March 1815, when King…
Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive eng
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hu…
Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite