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1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 5 - Treaty of Dardanelles between Britain and France concludedJanuary 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 - 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 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.April 9 - Tyroleans rise against French and Bavarian occupation - they include militia lead by Andreas Hofer .April 14 - Napoleon 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). Austrian army was defeated.April 22 - Battle at Eckmuhl - French troops beat Austrians under archduke KarlMay - 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. When he announces Pope's secular power has ended, pope excommunicates him.May 21 - Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian troops under archduke Karl beat French under NapoleonMay 24 - Dartmoor Prison opens, first to house French prisoners of warJune 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 homeJune 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 5 a href="July_6.html" title="July 6">6 - Battle of Wagram - Napoleon defeats the Austrians July 6 - French troops arrest Pope Pius VII and take him to Liguria July 30 - British invasion army lands in Walcheren August 8 - 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus arrive in Palestine August 10 - Ecuador declares independence from SpainAugust 11 - Severe earthquakes strike the Azores and sinks the village of São Miguel 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 - Royal Opera House opens in LondonOctober 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 December 26 - British invasion troop leaves Vlissingen December 30 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston, Massachusetts
Ongoing events
Births
Category:1809 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
January 16 - John Moore , British general (killed in battle) (b. 1761 )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 )May 31 - Jean Lannes , French marshal (mortally wounded in battle (b. 1769 )
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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