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Special Events for the Year 1809 - back to GREGSITE

Born :02/12/1809Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th pres (1861-65)
Born :12/29/1809Albert Pike, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Born :11/09/1809Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877
Born :08/06/1809Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
Born :04/04/1809Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer
Born :02/12/1809Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution (Origin of species)
Born :12/24/1809Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, western scout
Born :01/15/1809Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
Born :02/15/1809Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
Born :01/19/1809Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum)
Born :03/31/1809Edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
Born :02/24/1809Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
Born :02/03/1809Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
Born :11/27/1809Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)
Born :02/07/1809Frederik Paludan-Mller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
Born :06/13/1809George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
Born :04/14/1809George W Vreede, lawyer/politician
Born :02/25/1809George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
Born :08/27/1809Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
Born :02/20/1809Henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Born :04/15/1809Hermann Gnther Grassmann, mathematician
Born :11/23/1809Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :11/13/1809John Adolph Bernard Dahlgren, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1870
Born :04/20/1809John Smith Preston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
Born :03/15/1809Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
Born :03/24/1809Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
Born :08/23/1809Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
Born :01/04/1809Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind)
Born :03/31/1809Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls)
Born :08/29/1809Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
Born :07/28/1809Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :04/17/1809Philip St George Cocke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Born :01/15/1809Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)
Born :09/27/1809Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877
Born :01/18/1809Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Born :10/04/1809Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Born :04/21/1809Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy)
Born :01/20/1809Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (La Paloma)
Born :12/06/1809Stephen Thomas, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
Born :09/20/1809Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :06/18/1809Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879
Born :12/03/1809Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Born :03/10/1809William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
Born :12/29/1809William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
Born :12/26/1809William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Born :09/09/1809William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
Died :05/31/1809Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 76
Died :08/30/1809Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
Died :03/27/1809Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
Died :05/17/1809Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
Died :10/11/1809Meriwether Lewis, capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 35
Died :06/04/1809Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, painter, dies
Died :06/08/1809Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
Special :07/05/1809-6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles
Special :01/20/18091st US geology book published by William Maclure
Special :06/10/18091st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
Special :07/31/18091st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
Special :04/18/18091st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England
Special :08/08/180970 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)
Special :01/12/1809British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from the French (until 1814)
Special :05/05/1809Citzenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
Special :05/24/1809Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
Special :08/10/1809Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Special :03/01/1809Embargo act of 1807 is reappealed
Special :02/13/1809French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
Special :01/01/1809Holland Brigade under brig gen Chass‚ defeats Madrid
Special :03/04/1809Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
Special :04/20/1809Napolean I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
Special :12/16/1809Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate
Special :05/17/1809Papal States annexed by France
Special :11/22/1809Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
Special :02/11/1809Robert Fulton patents steamboat
Special :09/18/1809Royal Opera House in London opens
Special :02/20/1809Supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state
Special :06/06/1809Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
Special :02/03/1809Territory of Illinois organized
Special :01/05/1809Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France
Special :12/30/1809Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston

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