Events from the year 1810 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Ongoing
Publications
Births
- 12 January â John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (died 1882)
- 15 January â John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)
- 19 January â Talhaiarn, poet and architect (died 1869)
- 24 January â Thomas Jones, missionary (died 1849)
- 10 March â Samuel Ferguson, poet and artist (died 1886)
- 27 March - William Hepworth Thompson, classical scholar (died 1886)
- 30 March â Pablo Fanque, black circus owner, popularized by The Beatles in song (died 1871)
- 5 April - Sir Henry Rawlinson, politician and Orientalist (died 1895)
- 21 April - Thomas Wright, antiquarian (died 1877)
- 17 July - Martin Farquhar Tupper, poet and writer (died 1889)
- 29 September â Elizabeth Gaskell, née Stevenson, novelist (died 1865)
Deaths
- 26 January â James Martin, radical politician (born 1738)
- 24 February â Henry Cavendish, scientist (born 1731)
- 7 March â Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (born 1748)
- 24 March â Mary Tighe, Anglo-Irish poet (born 1772)
- 3 April â Twm o'r Nant, Welsh dramatist and poet (born 1739)
- 26 April â John Metcalf, English roadbuilder (born 1717)
- 15 May â Francis Hews, Baptist preacher in Bedfordshire
- 21 May â Chevalier d'Eon, French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (born 1728)
- 4 June â William Windham, Whig statesman (born 1750)
- 2 November â Princess Amelia, member of the Royal Family (born 1783)
- 15 December â Sarah Trimmer, writer for children (born 1741)
- probable â William Cruickshank, Scottish military surgeon, chemist and inventor
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