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.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 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. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 January | Achille Guenée / Lawyer / France |
| 04 September | Manuel Montt / Politician / Chile |
| 04 November | Benjamin Robbins Curtis / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 04 January | Louis Braille / Educator / France |
| 04 September | Juliusz Słowacki / Poet / Poland |
| 06 August | Alfred / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 10 July | Friedrich August von Quenstedt / Geologist / Germany |
| 12 February | Charles Darwin / Geologist / United Kingdom |
| 12 February | Abraham Lincoln / Politician / United States of America |
| 15 January | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon / Politician / France |
| 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 |
| 24 March | Joseph Liouville / Academic / France |
| 27 February | Jean-Charles Cornay / Missionary / France |
| 27 December | Alexandros Rizos Rangavis / Politician / Greece |
| 27 November | Fanny Kemble / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 31 March | Nikolai Gogol / Writer / Russia |
| 31 March | Otto Lindblad / Composer / Sweden |