1810 in Spain

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Decades:
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
See also:Other events of 1810
List of years in Spain

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)

References
  1. 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 ISBN 978-0-19-502413-5
  4. "Jaime Luciano Balmes | Spanish philosopher | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 8 June 2023.


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