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1809{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1806 1807 1808 - 1809 - 1810 1811 1812 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |} 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * January 16 - Peninsular War: The United Kingdom defeat the France 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 Riksdag of the Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Lands of Sweden. King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdication after a coup d'état. * April 9 - Tyroleans rise against France 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 Switzerland 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 (1809), 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. * 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. ==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) 1809 la:1809 os:1809 simple:1809 1809I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 10:43, 7 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo 18091800s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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