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1809 (MDCCCIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar , the 1809th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 809th year of the 2nd millennium , the 9th year of the 19th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1809, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 16 Sir John Moore is killed at the Battle of Corunna .
April–June
April 9 – Tiroleans rise , under the command of Andreas Hofer , against French and Bavarian occupation.
April 10 – Napoleonic Wars – The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria .
April 11 –15 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of the Basque Roads : The British Royal Navy defeats the French fleet in the mouth of the Charente , although officers on both sides face subsequent courts-martial .
April 18 – The 2,000 Guineas Stakes horse race is first run in England.[ 3]
April 19 – War of the Fifth Coalition:
April 20 – Battle of Abensberg , Bavaria : Napoleon defeats Austria.
April 21 – Battle of Landshut : Napoleon defeats Austria, in yet another battle.
April 22 – Battle of Eckmühl : French troops under Napoleon I and Marshal Davout defeat the Austrians, under Archduke Charles .
April 23 – Battle of Ratisbon : Napoleon I fights his last battle during the Bavarian phase of the War of the Fifth Coalition
May 3 – The Battle of Nimla occurs, which allows Mahmud Shah Durrani to seize the Durrani throne from his brother, Shah Shuja Durrani .
May 5
May 10 – Gustav IV Adolf is officially deposed from the Swedish throne, by the Riksdag of the Estates .
May 10 –11 – Peninsular War – Battle of Grijó : the Anglo-Portuguese Army , commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley , defeats the French army, commanded by Marshal Soult , in Portugal.
May 12 – Peninsular War – Second Battle of Porto : The Anglo-Portuguese Army, commanded by Wellesley, drives the French army, commanded by Marshal Soult, out of Porto , and forces them to retreat from the country.
May 17 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire. When he announces that the Pope's secular power has ended, the Pope excommunicates him.
May 21 – Battle of Aspern-Essling begins.
May 22 – Battle of Aspern-Essling : Austrian troops under Archduke Karl beat the French under Napoleon , in a hard-fought battle.
May 24 – Dartmoor Prison opens in England, to house French prisoners of war.[ 5]
May 31
June 6 – Sweden promulgates a new Instrument of Government , which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates , after authoritarian rule since 1772 . On the same day, Duke Charles (uncle of the deposed king Gustav IV Adolf) is elected King, under the name Charles XIII.
June 7 – Shoja Shah of the Durrani Empire signs a treaty with the British; only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah .
June 14 – A French victory, in the battle of Raab , prevents archduke John of Austria from bringing any significant force to the Battle of Wagram .
June 26 – Danish adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen deposes Count Frederich Trampe as governor of Iceland in the Revolution of 1809 and declares himself "Protector of Iceland".
July–September
Lord Castlereagh by Thomas Lawrence . The Irish politician fought a duel with his colleague George Canning on Putney Heath .
July 5 – Battle of Wagram begins.
July 6 – French troops arrest Pope Pius VII , and take him to Liguria .
July 8 –9 – Finnish War – Naval Battle of Porkala : The Swedish archipelago fleet defeats the Russians.
July 10 – Battle of Znaim begins.
July 11 French Marshal, Auguste de Marmont , and André Masséna fights inconclusively against the Austrians, in The Battle of Znaim
July 16 – The city of La Paz (in modern-day Bolivia ) declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva , the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo .
July 28 – Peninsula War – Battle of Talavera : Sir Arthur Wellesley 's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force.[ 3]
July 30 – Walcheren Campaign : A British invasion army lands on Walcheren .
August – The USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") is recommissioned as the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron.
August 8 – Seventy disciples of Vilna Gaon arrive in Palestine .
August 10 – Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
August 11 – Battle of Almonacid de Toledo: A poorly led Spanish army is defeated by King Joseph Bonaparte 's French army.
September 17 – Finnish War : The Peace of Hamina is signed between Russia and Sweden. The future Grand Principality of Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn .
September 18 – A new theatre for the Royal Opera House opens in London to replace the first, burnt down in a fire in 1808 . The price increases lead to the Old Price Riots , which last for 64 days.
September 21 – British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath , with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.
October–December
October 8 – Prince Klemens von Metternich becomes foreign minister of the Austrian Empire .
October 11 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee , explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
October 14 – The Treaty of Schönbrunn cedes the Illyrian Provinces to France, and ensures peace between The First French Empire , and The Austrian Empire .
October 25 – The Golden Jubilee of George III marked the forty-ninth anniversary of the accession of King George III and his entrance into the 50th year of his reign as King of Great Britain.
November 18 – Napoleonic Wars : Action of 18 November 1809 – In the Bay of Bengal , a French frigate squadron captures three British East Indiamen mainly carrying recruits for the presidency armies in India.
November 19 – Battle of Ocaña : A Spanish army is ridden down, and 4,000 are killed and wounded by French forces.
November 21 – First stone laid of first 'guided bus ' passenger wagonway Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroad .
November 25 – Benjamin Bathurst , a British diplomat , mysteriously disappears (possibly murdered) in Perleberg , west of Berlin.
December – Boyd massacre : Whangaroa Māori people kill and eat 66 crew and passengers of the brigantine Boyd in New Zealand.[ 6]
December 25 – American physician Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.
December 26 – A British invasion force leaves Vlissingen .
December 30 – Wearing masks at balls is forbidden in Boston , Massachusetts .
Date unknown
Births
January–June
Louis Braille
Edgar Allan Poe
Queen Sinjeong
Felix Mendelssohn
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
January 1 – Cao Bá Quát , Vietnamese poet (d. 1855 )
January 4 – Louis Braille , French teacher, inventor of braille (d. 1852 )
January 6 – Marie Durocher , Brazilian obstetrician, physician (d. 1893 )
January 15
January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe , American writer, poet (d. 1849 )[ 7]
January 21 – Queen Sinjeong , Korean regent (d. 1890 )
February 1 – Sophia Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute , Scottish philanthropist (d. 1859 )[ 8]
February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn , German composer (d. 1847 )[ 9]
February 12
February 15 – Cyrus McCormick , American inventor (d. 1884 )
February 23 – William Sprague , American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868 )
February 24 – Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel , Prussian field marshal (d. 1885 )
March 1 – Robert Cornelius , American pioneer of photography (d 1893 )[ 12]
March 2 – Abel Douay , French general (d. 1870 )
March 15 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts , 2-time President of Liberia (d. 1876 )
March 23 – Charlotte von Hagn , German actress (d. 1891 )[ 13]
March 24 – Joseph Liouville , French mathematician (d. 1882 )
March 27 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann , French civic planner (d. 1891 )
March 29 – Bettino Ricasoli , Italian statesman (d. 1880 )
April 1 – Nikolai Gogol , Russian writer (d. 1852 )[ 14]
April 15 – Hermann Grassmann , Prussian mathematician (d. 1877 )
April 20 – James David Forbes , Scottish physicist, geologist, inventor (d. 1868 )
May 22 – Constantin A. Crețulescu , 7th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1884 )
May 23 – Hugo von Kirchbach , Prussian general (d. 1887 )
June 4
June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson , American politician (d. 1900 )
June 11 – Juan Antonio Pezet , Peruvian general and politician, President of Peru (d. 1879 )
June 18 – Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch , American minister, hymn writer (d 1870 )
June 20 – Isaak August Dorner , German theologian (d. 1884 )
June 21 – Wilhelm Wolff , German political activist (d. 1864 )
June 27 – François Certain de Canrobert , French general, Marshal of France (d. 1895 )
July–December
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fanny Kemble
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
William Gladstone
July 2 – John R. Goldsborough , United States Navy commodore (d. 1877 )
July 9 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle , German-Jewish anatomist, physician (d. 1885 )
July 16 – Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz , Prussian general (d. 1877 )
July 31 – Francis Walker , English entomologist (d. 1874 )
August 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson , British poet (d. 1892 )[ 15]
August 8 – Heinrich Abeken , German theologian (d. 1872 )
August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , American physician, writer (d. 1894 )[ 16]
September 4 – Manuel Montt , 5th President of Chile (d. 1880 )[ 17]
September 12 – Julius von Bose , Prussian general (d. 1894 )
November 4 – Benjamin Robbins Curtis , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1874 )
November 10 – David Einhorn (rabbi) , German-American abolitionist (d. 1879 )
November 20 – Gustav Koerner , German-born revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, statesman of Illinois and Germany, Colonel of the U.S. Army (d. 1896 )
November 27 – Fanny Kemble , British-born American actress, writer (d. 1893 )
December 5
December 24 – Kit Carson , American frontiersman (d. 1868 )
December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898 )[ 19]
December 30 – Wilhelm von Tümpling , Prussian general (d. 1884 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January–June
Joseph Haydn
Thomas Paine
Daniel Lambert
January 6 – Johann Augustus Eberhard , German theologian, philosopher (b. 1739 )
January 16 – John Moore , British general (killed in battle) (b. 1761 )[ 21]
February 6 – Antoine Joseph Santerre , French general (b. 1752 )
February 20 – Richard Gough , English antiquary (b. 1735 )
February 25 – John Murray , 4th Earl of Dunmore (Lord Dunmore)(b. 1730 )
March 7 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger , Austrian composer (b. 1736 )
March 11 – Hannah Cowley , English dramatist and poet (b. 1743 )[ 22]
March 18 – Karoline Kaulla , German banker (b. 1739 )
March 20 – Mary Bateman , English woman executed for murder, known as the Yorkshire Witch
March 25 – Anna Seward , English writer (b. 1747 )[ 23]
March 27 – Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter (b. 1716 )
April 6 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours , Swiss artist (b. 1752 )
April 26 – Bernhard Schott , German music publisher (b. 1748 )[ 24]
May 13 – Beilby Porteus , English bishop, abolitionist (b. 1731 )
May 17 – Leopold Auenbrugger , Austrian physician (b. 1722 )
May 24 – Charles Rainsford , British general (b. 1728 )
May 29 – Johannes von Müller , Swiss historian (b. 1752 )
May 31
June 4 – Nicolai Abildgaard , Danish painter (b. 1743 )
June 8 – Thomas Paine , American revolutionary writer (b. 1737 )[ 25]
June 15 – Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet , British physician (b. 1722 )
June 21 – Daniel Lambert , English gaol keeper and animal breeder, famous for his unusually large size (b. 1770 )
July–December
Matthew Boulton
July 6 – Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle , French cavalry general (killed in battle) (b. 1775 )
July 22 – Jean Senebier , Swiss pastor, botanist (b. 1742 )
August 8 – Ueda Akinari , Japanese author, scholar (b. 1734 )
August 18 – Matthew Boulton , English manufacturer, engineer (b. 1728 )[ 26]
August 29 – Lucy Barnes , American writer (b. 1780 )
September 1 – Johann Friedrich August Göttling , German chemist (b. 1753 )
September 3 – George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry , English noble and politician (b. 1722 )
September 7
October 8 – James Elphinston , Scottish philologist (b. 1721 )
October 11 – Meriwether Lewis , American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774 )
October 30 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738 )[ 28]
November 28 – Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres , German lepidopterist (b. 1769 )
December 16 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy , French chemist (b. 1755 )
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