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
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