1810 in France explained

Events from the year 1810 in France.

Incumbents

6 January - Treaty of Paris ends war between France and Sweden.
10 January - Marriage of Napoleon and Joséphine de Beauharnais is annulled.
11 March - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
26 April - Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo begins. Spanish garrison besieged by French forces.
9 July - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
9 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo ends in French victory.
24 July - Peninsular War: Battle of the Côa.
25 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Almeida begins. French lay siege to British and Portuguese forces.
20 August - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Grand Port, Mauritius. French victory over British fleet.
21 August - One of Napoleon's marshals, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, was elected crown prince of Sweden.
27 August - Peninsular War: Siege of Almeida ends with French victory.
27 September - Battle of Bussaco, Anglo-Portuguese victory over the French.
Peugeot engineering business established.
Dominique Larrey makes the first ambulances.

engineer (died 1878)

14 July - Aristide Boucicaut, creator of Le Bon Marché department stores (died 1877)
21 July - Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist (died 1878)
4 August - Maurice de Guérin, poet (died 1839)
15 August - Louise Colet, poet (died 1876)^[2]
12 September - Ernest Courtot de Cissey, General (died 1882)
22 September - Louis-Auguste Desmarres, ophthalmologist (died 1882)
29 October - Sophie d'Arbouville, writer (died 1850)
8 November - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (died 1861)
7 December - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (died 1882)
11 December - Alfred de Musset, dramatist, poet and novelist (died 1857)

1 March - Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter (born 1736)
2 May - Jean-Louis Baudelocque, obstetrician (born 1745)
21 May - Chevalier d'Eon, diplomat, spy and soldier who lived the first half of her life as a man and the second half as a woman (born 1728)
29 May - François-Urbain Domergue, grammarian and journalist (born 1745)
26 June - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, airship inventor (born 1740)

Web site: BBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte . www.bbc.co.uk . 26 June 2022.
Web site: Louise Colet French writer Britannica . www.britannica.com . 26 June 2022 . en.