1809

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

Years: 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 - 1809 - 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814

Events

First running of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes horse race in England.
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 United States Supreme Court 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 of America
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 - New Constitution for Sweden, again a Constitutional Monarchy after an unbloody revolution March 22: Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf.
June 7 - Shah Shuja[?] of Afghanistan signs a treaty with the British. Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah[?]
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is recommissioned as flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron.
September 1 - Peace between Russia and Sweden: The territory to become Finland ceded to Russia.
Louis Poinsot[?] describes the two remaining Kepler solids.
Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining the concept of evolution.

Births

January 4 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind (+ 1852).
January 19 - Edgar Allen 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 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
William Ewart Gladstone, British liberal politician
Hermann Gunter Grassmann[?], Prussian mathematician

Deaths

June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer of Common Sense
Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter
Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer

		1809
		Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s Years: 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 - 1809 - 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 Events First running of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes horse race in England. 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 United States Supreme Court 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 of America 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 - New Constitution for Sweden, again a Constitutional Monarchy after an unbloody revolution March 22: Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf. June 7 - Shah Shuja[?] of Afghanistan signs a treaty with the British. Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah[?] USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is recommissioned as flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron. September 1 - Peace between Russia and Sweden: The territory to become Finland ceded to Russia. Louis Poinsot[?] describes the two remaining Kepler solids. Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining the concept of evolution. Births January 4 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind (+ 1852). January 19 - Edgar Allen 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 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 William Ewart Gladstone, British liberal politician Hermann Gunter Grassmann[?], Prussian mathematician Deaths June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer of Common Sense Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
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