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 first Argentine historians, such as Bartolomé Mitre, attributed the free trade to the The Representation of the Hacendados economic report by Mariano Moreno, but is currently considered the result of a general negotiation between Britain and Spain, as reflected in the Apodaca-Canning treaty of 1809.

As a teenager, Mariano, his nephew Juan Bautista Alvarado ( 1809 – 1882 ), and José Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ) received special instruction from Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá.

Mitre, for example, referred to The Representation of the Landowners ( an 1809 economic report by Mariano Moreno ) and the role of the merchants to support the view that the May Revolution intended to obtain free trade and economic integration with Europe ; right-wing revisionists center around Saavedra and the social customs of the time to describe the revolution under conservative principles ; and left-wing revisionists use the example of Moreno, Castelli and the rioters led by French and Beruti to describe it as a radical revolution.

* Mariano José de Larra ( 1809 – 1837 ), Spanish romantic writer

* Mariano Tiburcio ( 1809 )

During the Peninsular War, Badajoz was unsuccessfully attacked by the French in 1808 and 1809 ; but on March 10, 1811, the Spanish commander, José Imaz, was bribed into surrendering to a French force under Marshal Soult.

These two juntas failed to consolidate a solid following in all of Upper Peru and were defeated by October 1809 by two armies sent by the viceroys of Lima and Buenos Aires, José Fernando de Abascal and Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros.

José Campeche y Jordán ( December 23, 1751 – 1809 ), is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by many as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas.

Santiago Rafael Luis Manuel José María Derqui Rodríguez ( Córdoba June 21, 1809 – November 5, 1867 ) was president of Argentina from March 5, 1860 to November 5, 1861.

José I in Madrid opened the Arts Conservatory, an imitation of the one in Paris, in 1809.

In 1809, French dragoons scored notable successes against Spanish armies at the Battle of Ocana and the Battle of Alba de Tormes.

" Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches " (" Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings ") in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand ( circa 1801 – 1809 ) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

He also created a Royal Police Guard for Rio de Janeiro in 1809.

The excellent location of St. Louis caught the attention of English who occupied it three times for a few months in 1693, then during the Seven Years ' War of 1758 until it was taken by the Duc de Lauzun in 1779, lastly 1809 in 1816.

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** Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais, French general ( d. 1809 )

Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

A well-illustrated Description de l ’ Égypte was published by the French Government in twenty volumes between 1809 and 1828, concentrating on antiquities.

Between April 19 and April 23, 1809, Regensburg was the scene of the Battle of Ratisbon between forces commanded by Baron de Coutaud ( the 65th Ligne ) and retreating Austrian forces.

* Marc René Marie de Voyer d ' Argenson ( 1809 – 1813 )

* La vie et l ' oeuvre de Louis Braille: Inventeur de l ' alphabet des aveugles ( 1809 – 1852 ) by Pierre Henri.

The French finally took the city December 10, 1809, after many deaths on both sides from hunger, epidemics, and cold ; Álvarez de Castro died in prison one month later.

* Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, palaeontologist and chemist ( 1809 – 1887 )

The subsequent publication of Description de l ’ Égypte between 1809 and 1829 made numerous ancient Egyptian source materials available to Europeans for the first time.

The town was laid out in 1809 on a tract of land that David Parish had purchased from J. D. Le Ray de Chaumont in 1808.

His Traité elementaire de géologie ( Paris, 1809, also in English, by Henry de la Fite, the same year ) was principally intended as a refutation of James Hutton and John Playfair.

* HH Doña Sabina de Iturbide y Huarte ( 1809 – 1871 )

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.

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The Battle of Ciudad-Real was fought on March 27, 1809, and resulted in a French victory under General Sebastiani against the Spanish under General Conde de Cartojal.

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.