Historical Events In 1809
Sunday, 18 January 2026
Jan 01 Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid. 


Jan 01 John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet). 


Jan 02 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer 


Jan 04 Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67 


Jan 04 Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind). 


Jan 04 Louis Braille, creates the Braille system for the blind is born 


Jan 05 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France. 


Jan 12 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) 


Jan 12 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from the French (until 1814). 


Jan 15 Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) 


Jan 16 French forces defeat Sir John Moore and kill him in the Battle of Corunna January 16 Sir Arthur Wellesley succeeds Moore as commander of British forces in the Peninsular War 


Jan 16 Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña. 


Jan 18 Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896. 


Jan 19 Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit and the Pendulum) 


Jan 19 Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet is born 


Jan 20 1st US geology book published by William Maclure. 


Jan 20 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (La Paloma) 


Jan 20 The inaugural US geology book published by William Maclure. 


Jan 23 Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter 


Feb 01 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system 


Feb 03 Felix Mendelssohn, German composer is born. 


Feb 03 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos). 


Feb 03 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin) 


Feb 07 Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden) 


Feb 08 Franz I of Austria declares war on France. 


Feb 11 Robert Fulton patents steamboat 


Feb 11 Robert Fulton patents the steamboat 


Feb 12 Abraham Lincoln, Former (16th) US President is born 


Feb 12 Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th pres (1861-65). 


Feb 12 Charles Darwin, English scientist is born. 


Feb 13 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege. 


Feb 15 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper). 


Feb 20 Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies. 


Feb 20 Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76 


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