1810

Events in 1810 10

• 1810 – 1857 Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Died 2 May 1857, aged 46 Musset was a French poet and playwright associated with the Romantic movement, known for works including Lorenzaccio and his autobiographical novel The Confession of a Child of the Century. His turbulent relationship with the writer George Sand became one of the era's best-known literary romances.
• 1810 – 1861 Camillo Cavour (1810-1861) Died 6 June 1861, aged 50 Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, the chief architect of Italian unification, died in Turin just months after becoming the first prime minister of a unified Italy. His diplomacy and statecraft had been central to bringing the Italian states together under Victor Emmanuel II. His sudden death deprived the new kingdom of its most skilled statesman.
• 1810 – 1865 Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) Died 12 November 1865, aged 55 Elizabeth Gaskell was an English novelist and biographer known for works including Cranford, North and South, and her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her fiction chronicled Victorian social life and industrial change.
• 1810 – 1842 Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810-1842) Died 13 July 1842, aged 31 The eldest son of King Louis-Philippe and heir to the French throne, he was killed when he jumped from a runaway carriage at Neuilly. His death weakened the Orléans monarchy, which fell in the revolution of 1848.
• 1810 – 1850 Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Died 19 July 1850, aged 40 Fuller was an American journalist, critic, and women' rights advocate whose book Woman in the Nineteenth Century became a founding text of American feminism. She worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and reported on the 1849 siege of Rome. She drowned with her husband and young son when their ship wrecked off Fire Island while returning to the United States.
• 1810 – 1891 P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) Died 7 April 1891, aged 80 American showman and businessman who founded the circus that later became Barnum & Bailey. He built his fame on elaborate hoaxes, curiosities, and traveling exhibitions. His name became synonymous with American-style mass entertainment.
• 1810 – 1903 Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) Died 20 July 1903, aged 93 Born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, Leo XIII served as Pope from 1878 until his death, one of the longest pontificates to that point. He is best remembered for the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed labor rights and social justice. He died in Rome on 20 July 1903.
• 1810 – 1879 William Froude (1810-1879) Died 4 May 1879, aged 68 William Froude was an English engineer and naval architect who pioneered the scientific study of ship hydrodynamics. He developed methods for predicting a ship's resistance and stability using scale models, still known as Froude scaling. His work laid the foundation for modern naval architecture and towing-tank testing.
• 1810 – 1849 Frédéric Chopin Romantic piano poet Polish-French composer who wrote almost exclusively for the piano. His nocturnes, études, ballades and mazurkas define Romantic piano music.
• 1810 – 1856 Robert Schumann Romantic composer & critic German Romantic composer known for his piano works, Lieder and symphonies. He championed the music of Chopin and Brahms in his influential writings.