* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1810 – Napoleon I annexes two departments of the Kingdom of Westphalia into the French Empire.

* 1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom ( d. 1810 )

Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660 – 1810, Yale University Press.

* 1717 – Blind Jack, English road builder ( d. 1810 )

* 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

* 1758 – Franz Teyber, Austrian organist and composer ( d. 1810 )

* 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.

* 1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat ( d. 1884 )

Others who anticipated the work of Lavoisier include Jean Rey ( 1583 – 1645 ), Joseph Black ( 1728 – 1799 ), and Henry Cavendish ( 1731 – 1810 ).

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.

* 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.

* 1810 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian diplomat and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy ( d. 1861 )

* 1810 – Beethoven composes Für Elise.

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.

* 1891 – P. T. Barnum, American showman, businessman, scam artist, and entertainer ( b. 1810 )

* François Cabarrus ( 1752 – 1810 ), French adventurer and Spanish financier.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.

* 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.

* John Brown ( Maryland ) ( 1760 – 1815 ), U. S. representative ( DR-MD, 1809 – 1810 ))

* John Brown ( physician ) ( 1810 – 1882 ), Scottish physician and essayist

* John Brown ( fugitive slave ) ( c. 1810 – 1876 ), writer of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown published in London, UK 1855

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

Quills went into decline after the invention of the metal pen, which was first patented in America in 1810 and then mass produced by 1860, although mass production began in Great Britain as early as 1822 by John Mitchell of Birmingham.

Britain and British seafarers – including Sir Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Frobisher and Captain Brown — played a major role in the transatlantic trade in captured Africans between 1530 and 1810.

* 1769 – John Shortland, English navy officer ( d. 1810 )

* 1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board.

Schryver sold her in 1810, for $ 175, to John Dumont of West Park, New York.

** John Hoppner, English portrait-painter ( d. 1810 )

* May 8 – John Heath, U. S. Representative for Virginia ( d. 1810 )

** John Metcalf, English roadbuilder ( d. 1810 )

Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in Tahiti, by John Francis Rigaud ( 1742 – 1810 ), 1780.

Lewis and Clark expedition co-leader William Clark produced a map based on the previous expedition and included the explorations of John Colter in 1807, apparently based on discussions between Clark and Colter when the two met in St. Louis, Missouri in 1810.

In 1810, fur trader, entrepreneur, and one of the wealthiest men in the U. S., John Jacob Astor

* 1810 – John Leslie freezes water to ice by using an airpump.

* 1810 – Sir John Leslie freezes water to ice artificially

Garrick's play was a huge success, and major productions took place in the United States in 1756 ( with Hannah Pritchard as Catharine ), in 1788 ( with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble ), in 1810 ( again with Kemble and his real life wife, Priscilla Hopkins Brereton ), and in 1842 ( with William Macready as Petruchio ).

American painter John James Audubon claimed to have gone hunting with Boone in the woods of Kentucky around 1810.

From 1805 to 1810 settlements developed along such streams as St. Francois River, Doe Run Creek, and Flat River which are familiar to locals today ; by such personages as Squire Eleazer Clay, John Robinson, Isaac and John Burnham, Lemuel Halsted, Samuel Rhoades, Solomon Jones and Mark Dent, many of whose descendants still reside in the county.