Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

In the Battle of Abensberg on 19 – 20 April 1809, Napoleon gained a significant victory over the Austrians under Archduke Louis of Austria and General Johann von Hiller.

* Battle of Eckmühl occurred 21 – 22 April 1809.

* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.

* 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer ( d. 1894 )

* 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1809 )

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

* 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.

* 1809 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.

* 1809 – John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist ( d. 1851 )

Albert Pike ( December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891 ) was an attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason.

* 1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

* 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when Austria invades Bavaria.

Victorious Archduke Charles of Austria during the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( 21 – 22 May 1809 ).

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

* Jean-Baptiste Muard ( 1809 – 1854 )

* Boniface Wimmer ( 1809 – 1887 )

* Gongalegoda Banda ( 1809 – 1849 ), Sri Lankan rebellion leader

* Louis II ( 1810 ), also Grand Duke of Berg ( 1809 – 1813 )

* October 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet ( b. 1809 )

Forbes ( 1809 – 1868 ), A. T. Malkin ( 1803 – 1888 ), John Ball ( 1818 – 1889 ), and Sir Alfred Wills ( 1828 – 1912 ).

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ; Poet Laureate from 1850 ) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

* Alfred Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ) named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth.

* Christopher Ricks, " Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 19 December 2005.

" Ulysses " is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry.

Alfred Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ) lived at No 12 in 1880 – 1.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ) lived at Beech Hill House, High Beach 1837 – 1840 where he wrote parts of his magnum opus " In Memoriam ".

* Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 )

#" Nocturne ", Blow, bugle, blow by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 )

He also produced the dramatic fragments Spartacus and Alfred der Grosse ( 1809 ).

* Alfred der Große ( 1809 )

" The Lady of Shalott " is a Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ).

Charles Darwin ( 1809 — 1882 ) and Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823 — 1913 ) published their theory of evolution by natural selection in 1858, with Darwin's Origin of Species following a year later.

Tennyson-after locally born Alfred Lord Tennyson ( 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 ) who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and one of the most popular classical English poets of all time.

Malvern Hills was published in 1798, John the Baptist, a Poem, in 1801, Alfred, an Epic Poem, in the same year, The Fall of Cambria in 1809, Messiah in 1815.

** John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, ( Lord Dunmore ) ( d. 1809 )

* January 23 – Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, Scottish politician ( b. 1809 )

When eventually Bernard's identity is revealed after a verbal misstep by Chloe, Hannah initially reacts angrily but regardless she agrees to share the research material he requested, allowing him to propose his theory that one of the 1809 inhabitants, Mr. Ezra Chater, was killed in a duel by Lord Byron.

Putney Heath, near the Telegraph pub, was also the venue for the September 1809 duel between Cabinet ministers George Canning and Lord Castlereagh.

It is also the first figurative memorial to Lord Nelson to be erected in Great Britain ( only second in the world after Montreal ) and was unveiled on 25 October 1809, as part of King George III's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

In 1809 Lord Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson, " I must just observe that the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful in the world.

The legendary history of this Buddha image is traced to India, five centuries after the Lord Buddha attained Nirvana, till it was finally enshrined in Bangkok at the Wat Phra Kaew temple in 1782 during Rama I's reign ( 1782 – 1809 ).

Wardle Before Lord Ellenborough in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster on December the 11th, 1809.

His contributions to the Academy exhibition of 1809 included a portrait of Sir Joseph Banks ( engraved by Niccolo Schiavonetti ), and to that of 1814, two portraits of Lord Byron ( engraved by Robert Graves, A. R. A ( 1798 – 1873 ).

* July 1809 — Lord Harrowby, the President of the Board of Control, and Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, the Secretary at War, enter the Cabinet

* December, 1809 – Lord Wellesley succeeds Lord Bathurst as Foreign Secretary.

Lord Liverpool ( as Hawkesbury had now become by the death of his father in December 1808 ) accepted the position of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in Spencer Perceval's government in 1809.

" His political thinking was greatly influenced by Canning, but he became the protégé of Canning's rival Lord Castlereagh, who appointed him his under-secretary at the War Office in May 1809.

** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: King George III ( 1801 – 1820 ); Prince Regent George ( 1811 – 1820 ); Prime Ministers William Pitt the Younger ( 1801, 1804 – 06 ), Henry Addington ( 1801 – 04 ), The Lord Grenville ( 1806 – 07 ), The Duke of Portland ( 1807 – 09 ), Spencer Perceval ( 1809 – 1812 ), The Earl of Liverpool ( 1812 – 1827 )

Nevertheless, Wellesley ( now Lord Wellington ) returned to Portugal on 22 April 1809 to recommence the campaign.

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS ( 2 July 1780 – 31 January 1863 ), known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman.

* Lady Sophia Georgiana Lennox ( 21 July 1809 – 17 January 1902 ), married Lord Thomas Cecil, died without issue.