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 – 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 )

* Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809, but failed with the execution of all the conspirators of the movement on August 2, 1810.

With the arrival of news in May 1810 that southern Spain had been conquered by Napoleon's forces, that the Spanish Supreme Central Junta had dissolved itself, declarations of independence in Quito ( 1809 ), Gran Colombia ( 1810 ), Venezuela and Paraguay ( 1811 ) and other territories, established their own governments.

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They, along with Manuel Rodriguez Quiroga, founded the revolutionary movement of August 10, 1809, in Quito, when the city declared independence from Spain.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

The genus now known as Pterodactylus was originally named Petro-Dactyle by Cuvier in 1809, though this was a typographical error, later corrected by him to Ptéro-Dactyle.

Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.

* The former home of Pedro Domingo Murillo, martyr of the independence revolution of 1809, has been preserved and is now a museum.

* Robert McKnight ( c. 1789-1846 ), born in Augusta County, moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1809, member of a trading expedition under Zebulon Pike to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1812, captured by Spanish and imprisoned until 1821, eventually renounced his United States citizenship, moved to Mexico, and became owner of the Santa Rita del Cobre copper mine in Chihuahua ( now New Mexico ).

The United States acquired the land from the Indians, part of which forms the southwest section of what is now Brown County, in the 1809 treaty of Fort Wayne.

Hermann Günther Grassmann (; April 15, 1809 – September 26, 1877 ) was a German polymath, renowned in his day as a linguist and now also admired as a mathematician.

The earliest land claim was in 1809 near what is now Ravenden Springs.

Its history began on January 20, 1857, when John Brandon ( 1809 – 1886 ) arrived at Fort Brooke ( now Tampa ) from Mississippi with his first wife Martha ( 1813 – 1867 ) and six sons.

Stagecoaches traveling the old " Boston Turnpike " from Montreal in the 1830s passed through Lyme, stopping at the Lyme Inn ( now Alden Country Inn ), built in 1809.

What is now the City of Syracuse was known as Milan for a brief period between 1809 and 1812.

Smith Paul, born in 1809 in New Bern, North Carolina, discovered the fertile bottom land which is now Pauls Valley while a member of a wagon train traveling to California.

On 6 June 1809, a new constitution was adopted, and while the king still appointed the members of the council, now called " Statsrådet " ( the Council of State ), the legislative powers of government were once again shared with the Estates.

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.

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

He became a leader among evangelical churchmen, was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society in 1799, the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews ( now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People or CMJ ) in 1809, and acted as adviser to the British East India Company in the choice of chaplains for India.

Smirke's 1809 Building is now used as commercial offices by Barclays Global Investors.

Country homes for the landed gentry included: new rooms and remodelling of Wimpole Hall and garden buildings, ( 1790 – 94 ) for his friend Philip Yorke that he met on his Grand Tour ; remodelling of Baronscourt, County Tyrone, Ireland ( 1791 ); Tyringham Hall ( 1792 – 1820 ); the remodelling of Aynhoe Park ( 1798 ); In 1804 Soane remodelled Ramsey Abbey none of his work there now survives ; the remodelling of the south front of Port Eliot and new interiors ( 1804 – 06 ); the Gothic Library at Stowe House ( 1805 – 06 ); Moggerhanger House ( 1791 – 1809 ); for Marden Hill, Hertfordshire, Soane designed a new porch and entrance hall ( 1818 ); remodelling of Wotton House after damage by fire ( 1820 ); a terrace of six houses above shops in Regent Street London, ( 1820 – 21 ) demolished ; Pell Wall Hall ( 1822 ).

Soho House, Matthew Boulton's home ( from 1766 until he died in 1809 ) in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, is now a museum ( opened in 1995 ), celebrating his life, his partnership with James Watt and his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.

In 1820 Sharpe, now retired and living as a farmer in Normandy, is commissioned by the Countess of Mouromorto to find her husband, Don Blas Vivar, who has disappeared in the Spanish colony of Chile ; both she and her husband had encountered Sharpe in 1809, during the events leading up to the assault on Santiago de Compostella.

The north wall of the Yard was built in 1809 along with a guardhouse, now known as the Latrobe Gate.

In 1809 an Act of Parliament created a turnpike between Horley and Balcombe, this road ( now called the Balcombe Road ) entered the parish from the North and at the top of Pound Hill it turned east and followed the Crawley to Turners Hill road, after a few hundred yards the road then turned south along Church Lane in Worth.

Although the term has didactic merits, for instance when used in conjunction with the term Denmark-Norway, it is misleading because from the Middle Ages up to 1809 what now is Finland was an integrated part of the Swedish kingdom, whereas Denmark and Norway were two sovereign kingdoms which were united in 1380.

In 1809, Captain John Townson was granted an additional 250 acres ( 1 km² ) in the area now occupied by Kingsgrove and Beverly Hills.