1809 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1809?
- January 16, 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
- February 17, 1809 – Miami University is chartered by the State of Ohio.
- February 24, 1809 – London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
- March 13, 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
- March 27, 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
- 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 11, 1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
- April 21, 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
- April 22, 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
- May 5, 1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
- May 21, 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
- 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.
- 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 5, 1809 – The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 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.
- 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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