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 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

* 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 )

The suggestion that this newly discovered gas was a simple element was made in 1809 by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques.

With Johanna ( 1780 – 1809 ), his children were Joseph ( 1806 – 1873 ), Wilhelmina ( 1808 – 1846 ) and Louis ( 1809 – 1810 ).

A group of Quito's leading citizens followed suit, and on August 10, 1809, they seized power in the name of Ferdinand from the local representatives, whom they accused of preparing to recognize Joseph Bonaparte.

German music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ).

" The minority comprised anarchists and followers of Pierre Joseph Proudhon ( 1809 – 1855 ); as anarchists, the " Proudhonists " were supporters of limited or no government and wanted the revolution to follow an ad hoc course with little or no planning.

Two of the most prominent composers of the Classical period ( music ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ), wrote harpsichord music.

* 1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright ( b. 1746 )

* 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.

* 1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer ( d. 1809 )

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) Austrian composer who revolutionized the symphonic form.

* September 8 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician ( b. 1809 )

* March 31 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer ( d. 1809 )

In 1811 ( some sources say 1810 or 1809 ) her brother Joseph found a 4 ft ( 1. 3m ) skull, but failed to locate the rest of the animal.

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) had two Kapellmeister positions: first, from ( probably ) 1757 to 1761 for Count Morzin, then from 1761 on for the Eszterházy family.

Gay-Lussac's law, or the pressure law, was found by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1809.

Early formal organizations run by converted Jews include: the Anglican London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews of Joseph Frey ( 1809 ), which published the first Yiddish New Testament in 1821 ; the " Beni Abraham " association, established by Frey in 1813 with a group of 41 Jewish Christians who started meeting at Jews ' Chapel, London for prayers Friday night and Sunday morning ; and the London Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain founded by Dr. Carl Schwartz in 1866.

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 )

Created by legislative act of 22 December 1809, Warren County is named for American Revolutionary War officer Joseph Warren.

* Charles W. Hackensmith, Biography of Joseph Neef, Educator in the Ohio Valley, 1809 – 1854, Carlton Press, New York, 1973.

Consequently, opus numbers are not usually in chronological order, unpublished compositions usually had no opus number, and numeration gaps and sequential duplications occurred when publishers issued contemporaneous editions of a composer ’ s works, as in the sets of string quartets by Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ); Haydn's Op.

Under the French name of Otranto it was created a duché grand-fief de l ' Empire in the Napoleonic kingdom of Naples for Joseph Fouché, Napoleon's minister of Police ( 1809 ), the grandfather of Margareta Fouché.

The Battle of Ocana or Battle of Ocaña was fought on 19 November 1809 between French forces under Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult and King Joseph Bonaparte and the Spanish army under Juan Carlos de Aréizaga, which suffered its greatest single defeat in the Peninsular War.

Beaten by the Spanish at Alcañiz, he sprung back and soundly defeated the army of Blake at María on 14 June 1809, and on 22 April 1810 defeated Henry Joseph O ' Donnell, Count of La Bisbal at Lleida.