1810 in France
Events from the year 1810 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 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.
- 5 November – Salon of 1810 opens at the Louvre in Paris
Births
January to June
- 17 January - Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, painter
- 21 January - Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, General
- 4 February - Alexis Soyer, chef
- 8 February - Eliphas Levi, occult author and magician
- 25 March - Pierre-Jules Mêne, sculptor
- 4 April - Désirée Gay, socialist feminist
- 8 April - Hégésippe Moreau, poet
- 13 April - Félicien-César David, composer
- 23 April - Eugène Belgrand,
- 28 June - Célestin Joseph Félix, Jesuit
July to December
- 14 July - Aristide Boucicaut, creator of Le Bon Marché department stores
- 21 July - Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist
- 4 August - Maurice de Guérin, poet
- 15 August - Louise Colet, poet
- 16 August - Eugène Hilarian Abadie, U.S. Army surgeon
- 12 September - Ernest Courtot de Cissey, General
- 22 September - Louis-Auguste Desmarres, ophthalmologist
- 29 October - Sophie d'Arbouville, writer
- 8 November - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France
- 7 December - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist
- 11 December - Alfred de Musset, dramatist, poet and novelist
Full date unknown
- Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux, actress
- Baron de César Bazancourt, military historian
- François Edmond Eugène de Barlatier de Mas, naval officer
Deaths
January to June
- 1 March - Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter
- 2 May - Jean-Louis Baudelocque, obstetrician
- 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
- 29 May - François-Urbain Domergue, grammarian and journalist
- 26 June - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, airship inventor
July to December
- 12 August - Étienne Louis Geoffroy, entomologist
- 13 August - Jacques-François Menou, General
- 19 October - Jean-Georges Noverre, dancer and balletmaster
- 23 October - Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne, General
- 26 October - Alexandre-Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont, Artillery General
- 1 December - Jean Baptiste Treilhard, politician
- 8 December - Ange-François Fariau, poet and translator
Full date unknown
- Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie, comte d'Angiviller, director of the Bâtiments du Roi
- François Cabarrus, adventurer
- Esprit Calvet, physician and collector
- Antoine-Denis Chaudet, sculptor
- Jean-Marie Morel, architect and surveyor
- François Péron, naturalist and explorer