Timeline December 1810

Events in December 1810 2

• 1810 Final Decline of George III's Sanity The king's relapse into mental illness triggers a constitutional crisis King George III of Britain suffered a final, permanent relapse into mental illness, worsened by grief over the death of his daughter Princess Amelia. Parliament spent months debating how to provide for government given the king's incapacity. The dispute was resolved by the Regency Act of February 1811, which installed the Prince of Wales as Prince Regent.
• 1810 British Capture of Isle de France Britain seizes France's last Indian Ocean base after a brief campaign A British expeditionary force landed on Isle de France and forced the French garrison to surrender within days, ending French naval raids on British shipping in the Indian Ocean. The island was renamed Mauritius and remained a British possession until 1968. The capture followed the earlier French naval victory at Grand Port.