1809 - Wikipedia

Events

First running of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes horse race in England.
January 16 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna[?].
February 3 - Illinois Territory[?] was created.
February 11 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
February 20 - A decision by the United States Supreme Court states that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state.
March 4 - James Madison succeeds Thomas Jefferson as the President of the United States of America
May - Napoleon captures Vienna, is excommunicated, imprisons pope Pius VII[?]
May 5 - Mary Kies[?] is the first woman to be awarded a patent
May 5 - The Swiss canton of Aargau denies Jews citizenship.
May 17 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French empire.
June 6 - New Constitution for Sweden, again a Constitutional Monarchy after an unbloody revolution March 22: Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf.
June 7 - Shah Shuja[?] of Afghanistan signs a treaty with the British. Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah[?]
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is recommissioned as flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron.
September 1 - Peace between Russia and Sweden: The territory to become Finland ceded to Russia.
Louis Poinsot[?] describes the two remaining Kepler solids.
Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining the concept of evolution.

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