This Year in History:
1810
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Union General Daniel Ullmann is born in Wilmington, Delaware. Ullmann was best known as an advocate for black troops. Ullman was educated at Yale University and practiced law in New…
George Gordon, Lord Byron, swims across the Hellespont, a tumultuous strait in Turkey now called the Dardanelles. Legendary Greek hero Leander supposedly swam the same four‑mile stretch. Byron’s visits to…
Writer and editor Margaret Fuller, who inspired other Americans to devote themselves to learning, is born on this day. Fuller was born in Massachusetts and grew up during the Transcendentalist…
On this day in June (in two different years), two future presidents, Zachary Taylor and Richard Nixon, marry the women who will become their first ladies. On this day in…
On this day in 1810, the sailing ship Tonquin leaves New York with 33 employees of Jacob Astor’s new Pacific Fur Company on board. Six months later, the Tonquinarrived at…
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launches the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores.” The revolutionary tract, so‑named because…
The traditional German festival known as Oktoberfest begins on October 12, 1810, when Bavarian Crown Prince Louis, later King Louis I of Bavaria, marries Princess Therese von Sachsen‑Hildburghausen. The Bavarian…
