1809 Calendar
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1809 Historical Event(s)
January 16, 1809
– Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
February 24, 1809
– London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
March 27, 1809
– Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
April 11, 1809
– Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
April 22, 1809
– The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
May 5, 1809
– The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
May 22, 1809
– On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
May 25, 1809
– Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
July 28, 1809
– Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
September 18, 1809
– The Royal Opera House in London opens.
Who Were Born On 1809?
January 4, 1809
– Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (d. 1852)
February 3, 1809
– Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
February 12, 1809
– Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-his death) (d. 1865)
February 15, 1809
– André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857)
June 15, 1809
– François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
July 30, 1809
– Charles Chiniquy, Quebec excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
August 10, 1809
– John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist (d. 1851)
September 5, 1809
– Manuel Montt Torres, Chilean politician (d. 1880)
September 28, 1809
– Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
November 4, 1809
– Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)