* 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.

* 1810 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician ( d. 1864 )

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 ).

* June 19 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist ( b. 1810 )

He married Margaret Brodie Stewart ( 1810 – 1884 ) on 3 March 1829 at Edinburgh and produced the following children:

* David McMechen ( born about 1751 ; died 1810 ), who married Margaret Carroll in 1803.

He now resided for a considerable part of the year at Durham, and on the chapelry of St Margaret in the city becoming vacant, he was presented to it by the Dean and Chapter on 28 September 1810.

He married a second time in 1809, to Margaret Scott ( 1783 – 1843 ), and had three more children in this union ; Robert Eden Lee ( 1810 – 1843 ), Elizabeth Gordon Lee ( 1813-1813 ), Alexander Lee ( 1815-1815 ).

At the end of 1810 he met his future wife Margaret Phillips.

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, ( May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850 ) was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.

Sarah Margaret Fuller was born May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, the first child of Timothy Fuller and Margaret Crane Fuller.

Roger Hale Sheaffe married Margaret Coffin in Quebec in 1810.

The Knott family is linked to the Hall Family of Lighthouse Keepers via the marriage ( Holyhead 1877 ) of Henry Thomas Knott ( b. 1845 ) to Ellen Margaret Hall ( b. 1847 Dale, Pembs ) daughter of John Hall ( b. 1810 Dale, Pembs ) keeper of St. Ann ’ s Low Light.

He married Susan Euphemia Beckford, daughter of William Thomas Beckford and Lady Margaret Gordon-daughter of Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne, on 26 April 1810 in London, England.

Hogg and Shelley collaborated on a pamphlet of " mock revolutionary " poetry in late 1810, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, that they attributed to Nicholson herself.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

Fuller, a noted drunk, on 27 February 1810 was involved in an incident with the Speaker in Parliament, which led to him being seized by the Serjeant-at-Arms and to public disgrace.

For the next eight years, he would spend four to six months a year in Washington, D. C. At the age of 10, Fuller wrote a cryptic note which her father saved: " On the 23rd of May, 1810, was born one foredoomed to sorrow and pain, and like others to have misfortunes.

* 1810 – Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician ( d. 1892 )

* 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ( d. 1891 )

* 1749 – Cyrus Griffin, American politician ( d. 1810 )

* 1810 – Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist & statesman ; 24th United States Attorney General ; and 23rd United States Secretary of State ( d. 1883 )

* 1732 – William Cushing, American jurist ( d. 1810 )

* 1810 – Asa Gray, American botanist ( d. 1888 )

* 1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian ( b. 1810 ).

* 1810 – Cassius Clay, American abolitionist ( d. 1903 )

* 1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian ( d. 1897 )

American botanist Asa Gray ( 1810 – 1888 )

* December 27 – Andrew A. Humphreys, American general and civil engineer ( b. 1810 )

* August 10 – James Wilson Marshall, American contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill ( b. 1810 )

* May 10 – Theodore Parker, American preacher, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist ( d. 1810

* April 7 – P. T. Barnum, American showman ( b. 1810 )

* May 21 – Alfred Moore, American judge ( d. 1810 )

The Mexican War for Independence ( 1810 – 1821 ) severed control that Spain had exercised on its North American territories, and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the individual territory that had comprised New Spain.

After 1810, American and British fur trading companies were in competition for control of the North American fur trade, and American sovereignty over the region was not secured until the signing of the Oregon Treaty in 1846.

Between 1808 and 1810, he held a personal friendship with Latin American Independence Precursor Francisco de Miranda and paid visits to Miranda's Grafton Way house in London.

Up to 3, 000 Mountain men were trappers and explorers, employed by various British and United States fur companies or working as free trappers, who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s.