1809

Years: 1806 1807 1808 - 1809 - 1810 1811 1812
Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1809 in art 1809 in literature 1809 in science 1809 in music 1809 in sports List of state leaders in 1809 List of religious leaders in 1809

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

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
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 - Shah Shuja 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 solids.
Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining the concept of evolution.
First running of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes horse race in England.

Ongoing events

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

Births

January 4 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind (+ 1852).
January 15 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, anarchist (+ 1864))
January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe, US writer
February 3 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy, composer (+ 1847)
February 12 - Abraham Lincoln, US president
February 12 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist
March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, writer
June 4 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896)
June 8 - Richard Wigginton Thompson, congressman
August 6 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet
August 8 - Heinrich Abeken, German theologian
August 27 - Hannibal Hamlin, US politician
December 24 - Christopher Houston, American frontiersman
December 29 - William Ewart Gladstone, British liberal politician
Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician

Deaths

March 25 - Anna Seward, English writer
May 13 - Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, leading abolitionist
June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer of Common Sense
August 18 - Matthew Boulton, pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society
Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter
Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer