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 Putnam Chapin, American politician ( d. 1864 )

* 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.

He served as an assistant priest or curate in various parishes and in 1810, published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper, followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verse, Cottage Poems.

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.

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.

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 ).

Chile's first experiment with self-government, the " Patria Vieja " ( old republic, 1810 – 1814 ), was led by José Miguel Carrera, an aristocrat then in his mid-twenties.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's first published work was the Gothic novel Zastrozzi ( 1810 ), about an outlaw obsessed with revenge against his father and half-brother.

* 1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.

* 1810 – Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine.

They sent pianos to both Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, and were the first firm to build pianos with a range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six octaves by 1810 ( Beethoven used the extra notes in his later works ), and seven octaves by 1820.

The first permanent tramway was the Leiper Railroad in 1810.

The Waltz was first imported to England around 1810, but it was not considered socially acceptable until continental visitors at the post-Napoleonic-Wars celebrations danced it in London — and even then it remained the subject of anti-waltz diatribes, caricatures, and jokes.

The first Chinese labourers arrived in 1810, and the total number rose to about 600 by 1818.

There are early examples of short stories published separately between 1790 and 1810, but the first true collections of short stories appeared between 1810 and 1830 in several countries around the same period.

In Germany, the first collection of short stories was by Heinrich von Kleist in 1810 and ' 11.

The first permanent settler was Jonathan Lambert, from Salem, Massachusetts, United States, who arrived at the islands in December 1810.

After the Congressional reapportionment following the 1810 census, New York would have the most electoral votes for the first time, and it would continue to have the most votes until the presidential election of 1972.

In 1810, she published her first book: a biography of her friend Fernow, who had died two years before.

The second part of this volume appeared in 1810, but the first part of the second volume was not issued till 1827.

The project was first discussed in 1810 when its promoters included Samuel Whitbread.

The first publication to divide the papers in such a way was an 1810 edition that used a list left by Hamilton to associate the authors with their numbers ; this edition appeared as two volumes of the compiled " Works of Hamilton ".

This list credited Hamilton with a full sixty-three of the essays ( three of those being jointly written with Madison ), almost three quarters of the whole, and was used as the basis for an 1810 printing that was the first to make specific attribution for the essays.