1810 in Spain explained

Incumbents

• Monarch: Joseph I

Events

• April 26-July 9 - Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo: French Marshal Michel Ney takes the fortified city from Field Marshal Don Andrés Perez de Herrasti^[1]
• July 11 - Combat of Barquilla: Robert Craufurd attacks French grenadiers covering a foraging party. The French grenadiers make a fighting withdrawal and escape unscathed.^[2]
• September 14 - Battle of La Bisbal: A Spanish division led by Henry O'Donnell (also known as Enrique José O'Donnell) and supported by an Anglo-Spanish naval squadron led by Francis William Fane and Charles William Doyle surprises an Imperial French brigade commanded by François Xavier de Schwarz.
• September 16 - The Mexican War of Independence begins with the "Grito de Dolores", as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and fellow rebels take up arms against the Spanish colonial authorities.^[3]

Births

• August 28 - Jaime Balmes, priest and philosopher (died 1848)^[4]
• December 17 - Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre

Deaths

• January 21 - Mariano Álvarez de Castro, military governor (born 1749)

Notes and References

1. http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/Spain/c_Herrasti.html Perez de Herrasti, Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo
2. Jaques, Tony. Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. USA: Greenwood Press, 2007.
3. Meyer. Michael, et al (1979): The Course of Mexican History, page 276, New York, New York USA Oxford University Press
4. Web site: Jaime Luciano Balmes Spanish philosopher Britannica . www.britannica.com . 8 June 2023 . en.