1809

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Years:	1806 1807 1808 – 1809 – 1810 1811 1812

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1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1809th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 809th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1809, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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Births

• January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (d. 1852).
• January 15 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)
• January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
• February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
• February 12 – Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States (d. 1865)
• February 12 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)
• February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
• March 31 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
• April 15 – Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
• June 4 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896)
• June 4 – John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871)
• June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
• August 6 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
• August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
• August 27 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, fifteenth Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)
• August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
• October 22 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
• December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
• December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)

1809 Media

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  February 11: Robert Fulton receives patent for inventing the steamboat after creating the Clermont.

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  January 16: Battle of Corunna

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  January 16 Sir John Moore is killed at the Battle of Corunna.

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  Lord Castlereagh by Thomas Lawrence. The Irish politician fought a duel with his colleague George Canning on Putney Heath.

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  Braille

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  Edgar Allan Poe, June 1849. Daguerreotype "Annie", given to Poe's friend Mrs. Annie L. Richmond; probably taken in June 1849 in Lowell, Massachusetts, photographer unknown.

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  Queen Sinjeong. Regency : 1863-1873 (Monarch : King Gojong of Joseon) ; Grand Queen Dowager of Joseon : reign 1857 - 1890

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  The Portrait of Felix Mendelssohn

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  Georges-Eugène Haussmann

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  Alfred Tennyson by Elliott & Fry. Albumen cabinet card, 5 7/8 in. x 4 in. (149 mm x 103 mm)

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