This Year in History:
1810
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
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…
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…
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…
Bavarian Crown Prince Louis, later King Louis I of Bavaria, marries Princess Therese von Sachsen‑Hildburghausen. The Bavarian royalty invited the citizens of Munich to attend the festivities, held on the…
