1810 in science - Definition

The year 1810 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Chemistry

• Chlorine named by Humphry Davy

Births

• April 6 - Philip Henry Gosse (d. 1888), science writer.
• July 21 - Henri Victor Regnault (d. 1878), physical chemist.
• December 7 - Theodor Schwann (d. 1882), physiologist.

Deaths

• February 24 - Henry Cavendish, physicist and chemist (* 1731)
• June 26 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, pioneer balloonist (* 1740)