Napoleonic Timeline of 1810

January 1810

1st January 1810 – It was decided to erect on the periphery of the Concorde Bridge, in Paris, large statues of eight generals dead on the battlefield.

5 January 1810 – Letter of Marie-Louise of Austria to her father, the Emperor of Austria Francis I: I read today in the journal papers on Napoleon's divorce from his wife, I must confess, dear father, that I was deeply worried.

6 January 1810 – France and Sweden concluded an alliance.

9 January 1810 – The marriage of Napoleon was declared invalid by the Officiality from Paris about the spiritual connection. A nine francs fine was imposed on the Emperor.

11 January 1810 – The Bishop Committee was asked three series of questions by Napoleon, including: The bull of excommunication of 10 June 1809 being contrary to Christian charity, and independence and the honor of the throne, what to do to ensure that in times of trouble and calamity, the Popes do not wear to such excesses of power?

17 January 1810 – From Napoleon to Josephine: D'Audenarde told me you lack of courage since you're at Malmaison. This place  however is full of feelings that can not and should never change, at least on my side... If you doubt me, you'd be ungrateful.

28 January 1810 – The Privy Council of the Emperor received the mission to decide his future wife: a Russian princess, Austrian, Saxon, or even French. In Spain, the city of Granada was taken by General Horace Sebastiani 

February 1810

6 February 1810 – Armand de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza, announced to Napoleon 1 that Emperor Alexander I of Russia refused to give him the hand of his sister.

7 February 1810 – The temporary contract of marriage between Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria was signed in Paris.

16 February 1810 – Ratification of this contract in Vienna [Wien].

17 February 1810 – An organic senatus-consultum provided in Article #7: The Crown Prince bears the title and received the honors of King of Rome.

20 February 1810 – Andreas Hofer, the leader of the Tyrolean uprising of 1809, was executed in Mantua .

23 February 1810 – Napoleon wrote his first letter to Marie-Louise.

25 February 1810 – The House of the future Empress was set up.

March 1810

5 March 1810 – Marie-Louise answered Napoleon: I beg your Imperial Majesty to be convinced that I now consider as an obligation to take care to develop the qualities that will

make me better in His person and His reconciling me tenderness.

11 March 1810 – Blessing of the union of Marie-Louise and Napoleon in the parish church of the Hofburg, in Vienna. The Empress was represented by the Archduke Charles of Austria.

13 March 1810 – Marie-Louise left Vienna.

25 March 1810 – Announcement of the marriage of six thousand former soldiers throughout France, brides being endowed by the Emperor.

27 March 1810 – Napoleon left Compiègne  to join Marie-Louise; they met in front of the church of Courcelles-sur-Vesle .

30 March 1810 – The couple left Compiègne.

April 1810

1st April 1810 – Celebration of civil marriage at Saint-Cloud.

2 April 1810 – Cardinal Joseph Fesch celebrated the religious marriage in the Salon Carré

of the Louvre Palace .

27 April 1810 – Departure for honeymoon: Northern France, Belgium, Normandy.

May 1810

1st May 1810 – The United States Congress voted the Macon's Bill Number 2, which prohibited importation of goods from Great Britain, France or their colonies, under conditions.

4 May 1810 – Birth of Alexander Colonna Walewski, the illegitimate son of Napoleon 1 and Maria Walewska.

June 1810

1st June 1810 – The newlyweds returned toSaint-Cloud.

3 June 1810 – Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, was appointed Governor of Rome and had to leave the Police Department.

6 June 1810 – The Trade and Manufactures Council was created.

10 June 1810 – The imperial couple was solemnly received at City Hall of Paris . The Phrygian cap, which had been appearing on its front since 1793, and the inscription on the facade Unity, indivisibility of the Republic, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death were erased.

13 June 1810 – Visit of Napoleon to Josephine.

21 June 1810 – Marie-Louise and Napoleon visited the Trianon and the Palace of Versailles.

29 June 1810 – Fouché's appointment as Governor of Rome was canceled. He retired in Aix, in Provence.

July 1810

1st to 13 July 1810 – Abdication of Louis Bonaparte as King of Holland; the country was united to France, and Amsterdam became the third city of the Empire.

19 July 1810 – Queen Louise of Prussia died during a visit to her father at Hohenzieritz Castle, near Neustrelitz.

24 July 1810 – Beginning of the siege of Almeida, in Portugal, by the VI Army Corps under the command of Marshal Michel Ney.

The fortifications of the city of Almeida, Portugal

25 July 1810 – Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, Prince of Ponte-Corvo, presented his candidacy as crown prince before the Diet of Sweden.

August 1810

5 August 1810 – Trianon Decree, which imposed exorbitant taxes on colonial goods.

7 August 1810 – Lucien Bonaparte set sail for the United States of America.

15 August 1810 – Birthday of the Emperor. The Vendôme Column  [48.86747, 2.32944] was inaugurated.

21 August 1810 – Bernadotte was elected to the throne of Sweden.

25 August 1810 – The Feast of the Empress was celebrated at St. Cloud.

September 1810

4 September 1810 – Cardinal Joseph Fesch refused to take up his duties as Archbishop of Paris.

5 September 1810 – Victory of Marshal Etienne Macdonald in Cervera, Catalonia.

17 September 1810 – Failure of a French landing in Sicily [Sicilia].

27-28 September 1810 – In Portugal, the Battle of Bussaco (or Buçaco) pitted André Masséna, Prince of Essling against Arthur Wellesley, then Viscount Wellington.

October 1810

8 October 1810 – Wellington retreated behind the fortified lines of Torres Vedras.

10 October 1810 – Masséna installed his army opposite these fortifications.

14 October 1810 – Cardinal Jean-Siffrein Maury  replaced Joseph Fesch as Archbishop of Paris.

November 1810

2 November 1810 – Freedom of trade was restored between France and the United States of America. Bernadotte arrived in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

5 November 1810 – Pope Pius VII banned Cardinal Maury from participating in the management of the diocese of Paris.

12 November 1810 – Napoleon 1 informed French Senate of the pregnancy of the Empress.

18 November 1810 – Sweden declared war to England.

December 1810

2 December 1810 – The Isle of France [present-day Mauritius] fell into the hands of the English after the capitulation of General Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen .

13 December 1810 – The Empire annexed the German coastal regions up to Lubeck in order to combat smuggling; it now had one hundred and thirty departments. The Tsar's brother-in-law lost his Duchy of Oldenburg on this occasion.

18 December 1810 – New brief from Pius VII against Cardinal Maury, intercepted by Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary's police.

31 December 1810 – The Tsar of Russia Alexander 1 banned the entry of French goods in the Russian Empire; the Franco-Russian alliance was indeed broken.