1809

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

\n* January 16 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna.\n* February 3 - Illinois Territory was created.\n* February 11 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.\n* 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.\n*March 4 - James Madison succeeds Thomas Jefferson as the President of the United States\n* 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\n* April 9 - Tyroleans rise against French and Bavarian occupation - they include militia lead by Andreas Hofer\n*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.\n* May - Napoleon captures Vienna, is excommunicated, imprisons pope Pius VII\n* May 5 - Mary Kies is the first woman to be awarded a patent\n* May 5 - The Swiss canton of Aargau denies Jews citizenship.\n* May 17 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French empire.\n* June 6 - Sweden promulgates a new Instrument of Government, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after authoritarian rule since 1772.\n* June 7 - Shah Shuja of Afghanistan signs a treaty with the British. Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* Louis Poinsot describes the two remaining Kepler solids.\n* Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining the concept of evolution.\n* First running of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes horse race in England.

Ongoing events

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

Births

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

Deaths

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