* 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 ).

Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.

The Lavoisier definition was held as absolute truth for over 30 years, until the 1810 article and subsequent lectures by Sir Humphry Davy in which he proved the lack of oxygen in H < sub > 2 </ sub > S, H < sub > 2 </ sub > Te, and the hydrohalic acids.

This was confirmed by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810, who named it chlorine, from the Greek word χλωρος ( chlōros ), meaning " green-yellow.

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.

In 1810, Sir Humphry Davy asked him to offer himself as a candidate for the fellowship of the Royal Society, but Dalton declined, possibly for financial reasons.

Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir Humphry Davy.

Isabella was married to the Danish consul Jens Wolff, but she separated from him in 1810, and Sir Michael Levey suggests that people may have wondered if Lawrence was the father of her son Herman.

The church is also remarkable for its high quality fittings such as the 1783 organ by James Davis and 1810 chamber organ ( also by James Davis ) and the splendid gilded reredos or altar screen, one of the largest works of Sir Ninian Comper.

Maj .- Gen. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet GCB ( April 5, 1810 – March 5, 1895 ) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.

Portrait of John Rennie, 1810, by Sir Henry Raeburn.

He, however, died within two months of work beginning, and was succeeded by his son, John, later Sir John Rennie, who had as his resident engineer a fellow Scot, the seasoned marine builder, David Logan, who had assisted Robert Stevenson at the Bell Rock Lighthouse ( 1807 – 1810 ).

Surveyor, John Rennie ( father ) | John Rennie: portrait by Henry Raeburn | Sir Henry Raeburn, 1810

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

The most important works that occupied Flaxman in the years next following this appointment were the monument to Mrs Baring in Micheldever church, the richest of all his monuments in relief ( 1805 – 1811 ); that for the Worsley family at Campsall church, Yorkshire, which is the next richest ; those to Sir Joshua Reynolds for St Paul's ( 1807 ); to Captain Webbe for India ( 1810 ); to Captains Walker and Beckett for Leeds ( 1811 ); to Lord Cornwallis for Prince of Wales's Island ( 1812 ); and to Sir John Moore for Glasgow ( 1813 ).

Self portrait of Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, c. 1810.

David Herd ( 1732 – 1810 ), the collector of the classic edition of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs ( 1776 ), was " sovereign " of the Cape ( in which he was known as " Sir Scrape ") when Fergusson was dubbed a knight of the order, with the title of " Sir Precentor ", in allusion to his fine voice.

Sir Hugh Allan, KCMG ( September 29, 1810 – December 9, 1882 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian shipping magnate, financier and capitalist.

In 1810 he wrote " a brave and good letter to Sir Francis Burdett.

Named after the nearby town of Torres Vedras, they were ordered by Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, constructed by Sir Richard Fletcher, 1st Baronet and his Portuguese workers between November 1809 and September 1810, and used to stop Masséna's 1810 offensive.

Sir Walter Scott edited Seward's Poetical Works in three volumes ( Edinburgh, 1810 ).