1809 - What happened in 1809 ?

January 1809

Monday 16:

Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.

February 1809

Friday 03:

Illinois Territory is created.

Saturday 11:

Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

March 1809

Wednesday 22:

Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.

Tuesday 28:

Battle of Medelin

Wednesday 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.

April 1809

Wednesday 19:

The army of Austria attacks and is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.

May 1809

Friday 05:

The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.

Wednesday 17:

Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

June 1809

Tuesday 06:

Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.

August 1809

Thursday 10:

Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.

September 1809

Sunday 17:

Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.

October 1809

Wednesday 11:

Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.

December 1809

Friday 22:

The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress.