15 events found for 1810
Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and
May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the
The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his…
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port…
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company…
With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the…
A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates, and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the…