1809 in History – What happened in year 1809

In history, year 1809 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1809.

Top Historical Events of the Year 1809:

Date/Month	Event / Incidence / Incident
16 january	Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore in Corunna, Galicia, Spain.
24 february	After standing only 15 years, London's Drury Lane theatre, the third building of that name, burned down , leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
10 april	Napoleonic Wars-The War of the Fifth Coalition began when Austria invaded Bavaria.
19 april	War of the Fifth Coalition-The French won a hard-fought victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from the field of battle that evening.
05 may	Mary Dixon Kies became the first American woman to receive a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
06 july	Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrianarmy at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War ofthe Fifth Coalition.
18 september	The second theatre of the Royal Opera House in London openedafter a fire destroyed the original theatre one year earlier.
11 october	American explorer Meriwether Lewis died along the Natchez Tracein Tennessee in an apparent suicide.
25 december	American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
04 January	Louis Braille, the famous person who invented the Braille script for the blind, was born.
21 January	The first book of Geology in American was published by William McLure.
03 February	German composer Felix Mandelson Bartoldi was born in the city of Hamburg.
12 February	The 16th President of America, Abraham Lincoln, was born.
28 March	Spain was defeated at the hands of France in the Madeline war.
05 January	The Treaty of Dardanelle was signed between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Ottoman Empire.
11 February	Robert Fulton invented the stepboat in the United States.
04 March	James Madison was elected as the fourth President of the United States.
18 April	The 2000 Guinness Deck horse race first took place in England.
05 May	Mary Kiss is the first American woman to be awarded a patent for the technique of weaving straw hats with silk and thread).
07 June	Shuja Shah of the Durani Empire signed a treaty with the British.
08 July	In the Finnish War the Swedish Islands Fleet defeated the Russians in the naval battle of Porkala.
10 August	Ecuador declared independence from Spain.
17 September	Hamina's peace treaty was signed between Russia and Sweden in the Finnish War.
08 October	Prince Clemens von Metertich became the Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire.
19 November	The Spanish Army weakened in the Battle of Okana and 4000 soldiers of the Spanish Army were killed and others were wounded by the French Army.
26 December	A British invasion lent the city of Vallasingen.

Famous birthdays in the year 1809:

Date/Month	Name / Profession / Country
01 January	Achille Guenée / Lawyer / France
04 November	Benjamin Robbins Curtis / Lawyer / United States of America
04 September	Manuel Montt / Politician / Chile
06 August	Alfred / Poet / United Kingdom
10 July	Friedrich August von Quenstedt / Geologist / Germany
12 February	Abraham Lincoln / Politician / United States of America
12 February	Abraham Lincoln / Politician / United States of America
13 June	Heinrich Hoffmann / Author / Germany
13 November	John A. Dahlgren / Admiral / United States of America
15 June	François-Xavier Garneau / Poet / Canada
15 February	Cyrus McCormick / Business Man / United States of America
15 March	Karl Josef von Hefele / Bishop / Germany
19 January	Edgar Allan Poe / Poet / United States of America
19 March	Fredrik Pacius / Composer / Germany
22 October	Volney Howard / Lawyer / United States of America
24 March	Mariano José de Larra / Author / Spain
27 August	Hannibal Hamlin / Politician / United States of America
27 February	Jean-Charles Cornay / Missionary / France
27 November	Fanny Kemble / Actress / United Kingdom
28 September	Alvan Wentworth Chapman / Physician / United States of America

Famous Indian Personalities Birthdays in the year 1809:

Year	Name / Profession / Country
23 January	Surendra Sai / Activist / India