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Year 1810 (MDCCCX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1810

January 10 – The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
February 20 – Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer is executed.
March 4 – The French Army, under the command of Massena, retreats from Portugal.
March 11 – Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.

April 19 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General, is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
April 27 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
May 1 – Macon's Bill No. 2 becomes law.
May 10 – Revolutionaries occupy Buenos Aires' town hall.
May 25 – May Revolution: Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy from Spain and establish a provincial government for Argentina.
June 4 – The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves is founded in Dedham, Massachusetts.
June 23 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
June : L'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales ou végétales, by Nicolas Appert

July 9 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
July 20 – Colombia declares its independence from Spain.
August 6 – The city of Santa Cruz de Mompox, in modern-day Colombia, declares independence from the Spanish Empire.
August 21 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
September 8 – 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 6-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.
September 16 – Grito de Dolores: Miguel Hidalgo, a Catholic priest from Guanajuato, incites the revolt that becomes Mexico's Independence War.
September 18 – Chile forms its First National Junta, which is their first step towards its independence.
September 23 – The Republic of West Florida declares independence from Spain.
September 26 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.

Goethe publishes Theory of Colours

Amadou Lobbo initiates his jihad in present-day Mali.
Ching Shih and Chang Pao surrender their pirate fleet to the Chinese government.
The first steamboat sails on the Ohio River.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his Theory of Colours.
King George III of the United Kingdom is recognized as insane.
Moose become extinct in the Caucasus.
Russia acquires Sukhumi through a treaty with the Abkhazian dukes, and declares a protectorate over the whole of Abkhazia.
18,000 Angolans are sold at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Adult cotton spinners stage a general strike in Manchester.
Palm oil sales from West Africa to Britain reach 1,000 tons.
4,500 chests of opium are sold in China.
The small wealthy Creole aristocracy uses the removal of the Spanish king as justification for their seizure of political power^{clarification needed} and their preservation of that power.

Argentine War of Independence (1810–1818)
Black War (1804–1835)
Bolivian Independence War (1809–1824)
Gunboat War (1807–1814)
Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815) – Peninsular War
Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)

January 3 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer (d. 1897)
February 5 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
March 1¹ – Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1849)
March 2 – Pope Leo XIII (aka Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) (d. 1903)
March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (d. 1886)
May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
June 8 – Robert Schumann, German composer and pianist (d. 1856)
June 9 – Carl Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849)

July 5 – P. T. Barnum, American showman (d. 1891)
July 21 – Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
August 29 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (d. 1884)
September 2 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
September 29 – Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
October 10 – James W. Marshall, American contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill (d. 1885)
December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)
December 24 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)

January 20 – Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
January 23 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
February 20 – Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767)
February 24 – Henry Cavendish, British scientist (b. 1731)
March 7 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
June 7 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)

July 19 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
August 12 – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
October 15 – Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
November 11
- Johann Zoffany, German-born painter (b. 1733)
- John Laurance, American attorney, statesman, and judge (b. 1750)

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