Anniversarial — 2010
1810
The Peninsular War reaches a new stage with Napoleon's army reaching stalemate against the British in Portugal; a large part of the Spanish Empire declares independence from Spain: Venezuela on 19 April, Argentina on 25 May, Colombia on 20 July, Mexico on 16 September and Chile on 18 September.
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2010:
Births
- Buenos Aires, Junta of (founded 1810), Argentinian governing body
- Chopin, Frédéric François (1810–1849), Polish pianist, composer
Deaths
- Baring, Sir Francis, 1st baronet (1740–1810), English merchant banker
- Berthereau, Nicolas Hubert (1731–1810), French Catholic priest
- Brémond d'Ars, Marie Madeleine de, marquise de Verdelin (1728–1810), French aristocrat
- Broom, Jacob (1752–1810), American merchant, cloth manufacturer, politician
- Bruce, Martha, countess of Elgin (d. 1810), Scottish aristocrat
- Carrington, Edward (1748–1810), American lawyer, soldier, politician
- Cobenzl, Graf Johann Karl Philipp von (1741–1810), Austrian statesman
- Collins, David (1756–1810), English judge, army officer
- Collins, Edward (d. post 1810), English army officer
- Cullen, Robert (c. 1740–1810), Scottish advocate, judge
- Dashkova, Princess Ekaterina Romanovna (1744–1810), Russian aristocrat
- Dornford, Josiah (c. 1734–1810), English local politician, civil servant, author
- Éon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', chevalier d'Éon (1728–1810), French transvestite, secret agent
- Fersen, Greve Hans Axel von (1755–1810), Swedish general
- Framery, Nicolas Étienne (1745–1810), French musician, playwright, poet
- Griffin, Cyrus (1748–1810), American lawyer, judge
- Griffin, Samuel (1746–1810), American politician
- Guiffardière, Charles de (1740–1810), Belgian protestant pastor
- Herder, Felix (1741–1810), Swiss protestant minister
- Humphry, Ozias (1742–1810), English miniaturist, painter
- Joly de Fleury, Jean Omer (1715–1810), French magistrate
- Knox, William (1756–1795), American government official, pamphleteer, diplomat
- Lafitte, Anne Gédéon, marquis de Pelleport (c. 1755–1810), French adventurer
- Le Danois de Cernay, Marie Françoise Augustine Ursule, comtesse de La Marck (1757–1810), French aristocrat
- Leffingwell, Christopher (1734–1810), American merchant, manufacturer, tax official
- Legge, George, 3rd earl of Dartmouth (1755–1810), English politician
- Le Moyne des Essarts, Nicolas Toussaint (1744–1810), French lawyer, legal writer, bibliographer
- Lincoln, Benjamin (1733–1810), American revolutionary general, politician
- Menou, Jacques François de (1750–1810), French general, politician
- Morgan, George (1743–1810), American merchant, speculator
- Morris, Richard (1730–1810), American lawyer, judge
- Naigeon, Jacques André (1738–1810), French academy member
- Nesselrode-Ereshofen, Graf Maximilian Julius Wilhelm Franz von (1724–1810), German aristocrat, army officer, courtier, diplomat
- Noverre, Jean Georges (1727–1810), French dancer, dancing-master
- Olivier de Corancez, Guillaume (1734–1810), French financier, newspaper owner
- Parker, Josiah (1751–1810), American army officer, politician
- Perret, Jean François (1744–after 1810), French goldsmith, revolutionary politician
- Powell, Leven (1737–1810), American merchant, farmer, politician
- Radix de Sainte-Foy, Claude Pierre Maximilien (1736–1810), French civil servant, diplomat
- Townshend, Charles, 1st Baron Bayning (1725–1767), English politician
- Walker, Joseph Cooper (1761–1810), Irish antiquarian, author
- Washington, William (1752–1810), American planter, army officer
- Whitefoord, Caleb (1734–1810), Scottish wine-merchant, poet, diplomat
- Windham, William (1750–1810), English politician
- Wood, Daniel (d. before 1810), English spinet maker