Notable Historical Events - 1809
1809 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid |
Jan 5 |
Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France |
Jan 12 |
British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) |
Jan 16 |
Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna |
Jan 20 |
1st US geology book published by William Maclure |
Feb 1 |
Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system |
Feb 3 |
Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin) |
Feb 8 |
Franz I of Austria declares war on France |
Feb 11 |
Robert Fulton patents steamboat |
Feb 13 |
French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege |
Feb 20 |
US Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state |
Mar 1 |
Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed |
Mar 4 |
Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes |
Mar 22 |
Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne. |
Mar 28 |
Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin. |
Mar 29 |
King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. |
Apr 18 |
1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England |
Apr 20 |
Napoleon I and French forces defeat Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria |
Apr 22 |
Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria Archduke Karl |
May 5 |
Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland |
May 5 |
Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw) |
May 17 |
Papal States annexed by France |
May 21 |
Battle of Aspern-Essling: Austrian archduke Karl beats Napoleon |
May 24 |
Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war |
Jun 1 |
Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home |
Jun 6 |
Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established with a new constituion empowering Riksdag after 20 years of absolute monarchy |
Jun 8 |
William Hyde Wollaston invents the first reflective goniometer |
Jun 10 |
1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila |
Jul 5 |
-6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles |
Jul 16 |
La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva. The first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo |
Jul 27 |
Battle of Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army |
Jul 30 |
British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren |
Jul 31 |
1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila |
Aug 8 |
70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnius, arrive in Palestine |
Aug 10 |
Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
Sep 17 |
Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn. |
Sep 18 |
Royal Opera House in London opens |
Oct 11 |
Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand. |
Nov 22 |
Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen |
Dec 25 |
Physician Ephraim McDowell performs the first abdominal surgery in the U.S, an ovariotomy to remove a 22 lb ovarian tumor |
Dec 26 |
English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen |
Dec 30 |
Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston |
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