1809 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1809?
- January 16, 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
- February 3, 1809 – The Illinois Territory is created.
- February 17, 1809 – Miami University is chartered by the State of Ohio.
- 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 28, 1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
- March 29, 1809 – 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.
- April 19, 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- April 20, 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- May 5, 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
- May 17, 1809 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
- 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.
- May 25, 1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
- 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 16, 1809 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
- 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.
- November 18, 1809 – In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
- December 13, 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
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