9th » Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
21st » Charles XIV John of Sweden e.g Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown prince e.g Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
26th » The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his Liniers Counter-revolution named counter-revolution.
27th » Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy Battle of Grand Port defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port District Grand Port on Mauritius Île de France.
28th » Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1810
10th » Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1861)
29th » Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
Famous Deaths for August 1810
12th » Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
26th » Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)