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Year '1809' ('MDCCCIX') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1809

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - September

Events of 1809

January - March

★ January 5 - Treaty of the Dardanelles between Britain and the Ottoman Empire concluded.

★ January 10 - French Marshal Jean Lannes begins the Siege of Zaragoza.

★ January 16 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna.

★ February 3 - Illinois Territory was created.

★ February 8 - Franz I of Austria declares war on France,

★ February 11 - caz kelly patents the steamboat.

★ February 12 - Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born.

★ February 20 - A decision by the Supreme Court of the United States states that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state.

★ February 20 - Siege of Zaragoza grinds to a halt as Jose Palafox surrenders. Over 60,000 had been killed on both sides in 41 days of street fighting.

★ February 25 - Spanish forces are defeated at the Battle of Valls in Catalonia by Marshal St Cyr.

★ March 1 - Embargo Act repealed, Non-Intercourse Act replaces it.

★ March 4 - James Madison succeeds Thomas Jefferson as the President of the United States.

★ March 13 - Military coup ousts Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden - he is confined in the Gripsholm Castle.

★ March 29 - At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état and is later exiled.

★ March 29 - The First Battle of Porto ends in disaster as 18,000 Portuguese soldiers are drowned in a rout after defeat by the French under Marshal Soult and the Battle of Medellín results in massive Spanish casualties in Extremadura, when Marshal Victor's cavalry routs their army.

April - June

★ April 9 - Tyroleans rise against French and Bavarian occupation, most notable militia lead by Andreas Hofer.

★ April 14 - Napoleon I defeats Austrians in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

★ April 19 - Battle of Raszyn between armies of Austria (attackers) and Duchy of Warsaw (defenders) as a part of struggles of the Fifth Coalition (1809). The Austrian army was defeated.

★ April 22 - Battle of Eckmühl - French troops under Napoleon I and Marshal Davout defeat the Austrians under Archduke Charles.

★ May - Napoleon captures Vienna, is excommunicated, imprisons pope Pius VII.

★ May 5 - Mary Kies is the first American woman to be awarded a patent.

★ May 5 - The Swiss canton of Aargau denies Jews citizenship.

★ May 17 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French empire. When he announces Pope's secular power has ended, pope excommunicates him.

★ May 21 - Battle of Aspern-Essling: Austrian troops under Archduke Karl beat French under Napoleon in a hard fought battle.

★ May 24 - Dartmoor Prison opens, first to house French prisoners of war.

★ June 1 - Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home

★ June 6 - Sweden promulgates a new Instrument of Government, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after authoritarian rule since 1772.

★ June 7 - Shoja Shah of Afghanistan signs a treaty with the British. Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah.

July - September

★ July 5-6 - The massive Battle of Wagram in which Napoleon defeats the Austrians.

★ July 6 - French troops arrest Pope Pius VII and take him to Liguria

★ July 10 - French Marshal Marmont engages in the inconclusive Battle of Znaim against the Austrians.

★ July 28 - Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force at the Battle of Talavera.

★ July 30 - British invasion army lands in Walcheren.

★ August 8 - 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnius arrive in Palestine.

★ August 10 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain.

★ August 11 - Severe earthquakes strike the Azores and sinks the village of São Miguel.

★ August 11 - A poorly-generaled Spanish army was defeated by King Joseph Bonaparte's French army at the Battle of Almonacid de Toledo.

★ September 17 - Peace of Hamina - Peace between Russia and Sweden in the Finnish War. The territory to become the Grand Duchy of Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.

★ September 18 - A new theatre to hold the Royal Opera House opens in London to replace the first burnt down. in a fire in 1808. The price increases led to the Old Price Riots which lasted for 64 days.

October - December

★ October 11 - Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.

★ October 14 - Treaty of Schoenbrunn cedes Illyrian provinces to France.

★ November 19 - A Spanish army is ridden down and 20,000 are killed by French forces at the Battle of Ocana.

★ November 25 - Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappeared (or more likely murdered) in Perleberg.

★ December 26 - British invasion force leaves Vlissingen

★ December 30 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston, Massachusetts.

Undated

★ ''USS Constitution'' (Old Ironsides) is recommissioned as flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron.

★ Louis Poinsot describes the two remaining Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra.

★ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes ''Philosophie Zoologique'', outlining the concept of evolution.

★ First running of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes horse race in England.

★ Miami University (Ohio) established by congressional order by George Washington.

★ Nicolas François Appert (1750-1841) develops a method to preserve food by means of canning.

Ongoing events

★ Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) - Peninsular War/Finnish War/Fifth Coalition.

★ Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812.

Births

January - June

★ January 4 - Louis Braille, French teacher, inventor of braille (d. 1852)

★ January 15 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)

★ January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)

★ February 3 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)

★ February 12

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★ Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)

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★ Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)

★ February 15 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)

★ March 24 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)

★ March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)

★ April 15 - Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)

★ June 4

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★ Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896)

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★ John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871)

★ June 8 - Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)

★ June 20 - Isaak August Dorner, German theologian (d. 1884)

July - December

★ August 6 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)

★ August 8 - Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)

★ August 27 - Hannibal Hamlin, American politician (d. 1891)

★ August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)

★ October 22 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)

★ September 27 - Raphael Semmes, Officer in the USN and the CSN (d.1877)

★ November 27 - Fanny Kemble, British-born American actress and writer (d. 1893)

★ December 24 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)

★ December 29 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 16 - John Moore, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1761)

★ February 25 - John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (Lord Dunmore)

★ March 7 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer (b. 1736)

★ March 11 - Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (b. 1743)

★ March 25 - Anna Seward, English writer (b. 1747)

★ March 27 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)

★ May 13 - Beilby Porteus, English bishop and abolitionist (b. 1731)

★ May 17 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (b. 1722)

★ May 31

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★ Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)

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★ Jean Lannes, French marshal (mortally wounded in battle (b. 1769)

July - September

★ July 6 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (killed in battle) (b. 1775)

★ June 4 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (b. 1743)

★ June 8 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary writer (b. 1737)

★ August 8 - Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (b. 1734)

★ August 18 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)

★ October 8 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)

★ October 11 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774)

★ October 30 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)

★ November 9 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer and painter (b. 1725)
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