1809
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1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- January 16 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna.
- February 3 – Illinois Territory was created.
- February 11 – Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
- 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.
- March 4 – James Madison succeeds Thomas Jefferson as the President of the United States.
- 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 abdicated after a coup d'état.
- April 9 – Tyroleans rise against French and Bavarian occupation – they include militia lead by Andreas Hofer.
- 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). Austrian army was defeated.
- May – Napoleon captures Vienna, is excommunicated, imprisons pope Pius VII.
- May 5 – Mary Kies is the first 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.
- 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.
- September 17 – 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.
- October 11 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
- USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is recommissioned as flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron.
- Louis Poinsot describes the two remaining Kepler-Poinsot solids.
- 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.
Ongoing events
- Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Finnish War/Fifth Coalition
Births
- January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (d. 1852).
- January 15 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)
- January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
- February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
- February 12 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
- February 12 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)
- February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
- March 31 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
- April 15 – Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
- June 4 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896)
- June 4 – John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871)
- June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
- 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)
- December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
- December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)
Deaths
- March 7 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer (b. 1736)
- March 25 – Anna Seward, English writer (b. 1747)
- March 27 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
- May 13 – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist (b. 1731)
- May 31 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
- June 4 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (b. 1743)
- June 8 – Thomas Paine, American revolutionary writer (b. 1737)
- August 18 – Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
- October 11 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774)
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