1809 Calendar
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1809 Historical Event(s)
March 13, 1809
– Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
March 22, 1809
– Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
March 27, 1809
– Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
May 21, 1809
– The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
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.
June 6, 1809
– Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
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.
August 10, 1809
– Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
September 17, 1809
– Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
September 18, 1809
– The Royal Opera House in London opens.
Who Were Born On 1809?
March 27, 1809
– Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
March 31, 1809
– Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864)
June 15, 1809
– François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
July 10, 1809
– Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
August 6, 1809
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
August 27, 1809
– Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
October 11, 1809
– Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
November 4, 1809
– Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
November 13, 1809
– John A. Dahlgren, American Navy admiral (d. 1870)
November 27, 1809
– Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)