Important Historical Events of the year 1809, Year 1809 in History

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What happened in the year 1809?

Date	Event
January 6, 1809	Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
January 16, 1809	Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
February 3, 1809	The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
February 24, 1809	London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, destitute.
February 27, 1809	Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine.
March 13, 1809	Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809.
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 Medellín.
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 10, 1809	Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
April 11, 1809	Battle of the Basque Roads: Admiral Lord Gambier fails to support Captain Lord Cochrane, leading to an incomplete British victory over the French fleet.
April 19, 1809	An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
April 20, 1809	Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
April 21, 1809	Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon 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 and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
May 5, 1809	Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
May 17, 1809	Emperor Napoleon I orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
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, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
May 25, 1809	Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern-day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.
July 5, 1809	The Battle of Wagram between the French and Austrian Empires begins.
July 6, 1809	The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date 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.
July 28, 1809	Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
August 18, 1809	The Senate of Finland is established in the Grand Duchy of Finland after the official adoption of the Statute of the Government Council by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
September 17, 1809	Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War; the territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
September 18, 1809	The Royal Opera House in London opens.
September 21, 1809	British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.
November 18, 1809	In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
November 27, 1809	The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
December 25, 1809	Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.