As Latrobe reported to Thomas Jefferson in August 1809,

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

His Water Nymph and Bittern ( 1809 ), was created as a fountain sculpture for the Center Square Waterworks, designed by Benjamin Latrobe, which stood at what is now the site of Philadelphia City Hall.

He invented the camera lucida ( 1807 ), the reflecting goniometer ( 1809 ), and the Wollaston prism.

In 1809 Nicolas Appert invented a vacuum bottling technique that would supply food for French troops, and this contributed to the development of tinning and then canning by Peter Durand in 1810.

Josef Leopold Auenbrugger or Leopold von Auenbrugg ( 19 November 1722 – 17 May 1809 ) was the Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique.

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 ).

* 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 – 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.

A second bridge, the Canal Bridge, opened in 1809 alongside the new Middlesex Canal.

The encyclopaedia grew in size ; the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition ( 1801 – 1809 ) it had expanded to 20 volumes.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

Daniel Day established a wool carding mill in the Blackstone Valley at Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1809, the third woollen mill established in the U. S. ( The first was in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.

* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars.

* 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( near Vienna ), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.

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.

* December 1 – William Swainson ( lawyer ), second, and last, Attorney-General ( New Zealand ) of the Crown Colony of New Zealand ( b. 1809 )

The younger Arfwedson matriculated as a student at the University of Uppsala in 1803 ( at the time, matriculating at a young age was common for aristocratic and wealthy students ), completed a degree in Law in 1809 and a second degree in mineralogy in 1812.

Grenoble welcomed for the second time a prisoner Pope in 1809.

He attempts to escape four times, in 1800 ( shortly before he was due to be released anyway ), 1802, 1806 and 1809, each time his sentence is lengthened by three years ; he also receives an extra two years for once resisting recapture during his second escape.

William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.

* In 1809, the Riksdag elected Charles XIII King after his nephew Gustav IV Adolf had been deposed, and after the new King had accepted a new constitution that ended Sweden's second Autocracy ( 1789 – 1809 ).

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.

He married a second time in 1809, to Margaret Scott ( 1783 – 1843 ), and had three more children in this union ; Robert Eden Lee ( 1810 – 1843 ), Elizabeth Gordon Lee ( 1813-1813 ), Alexander Lee ( 1815-1815 ).

He was the second of seven children to Israel Morey ( 1735 – 1809 ) and Martha Palmer ( 1733 – 1810 ) and was Born in Hebron, Connecticut, but moved to Orford, New Hampshire, with his family in 1768.

The second period of the University's history covers the period when Finland was a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire, from 1809 to 1917.

Emma soon formed a friendship with one of the guests, the dull but sincere Honourable Charles Francis Greville ( 1749 – 1809 ), second son of the first Earl of Warwick and a member of Parliament for Warwick.

In 1805 he published a poem consisting of Rhymes on Art, and a second part followed in 1809.

Thomas may be referring to John Anthon ’ s An Analytical Abridgment of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone on the laws of England: in four books: together with an analytical synopsis of each book, printed and published by Isaac Riley in 1809, second edition 1832.

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

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

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

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

* Invasion of Cayenne ( 1809 ) ( 1809 ): Was a combined military operation by an Anglo-Portuguese-Brazilian expeditionary force against Cayenne, capital of the French South American colony of French Guiana in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

Designed by Daniel Asher Alexander and constructed originally between 1806 and 1809 by local labour, to hold prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars, it was also used to hold American prisoners from the War of 1812.

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge ( d. 1809 )

* 1809 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman ( d. 1868 )

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

* 1729 – Josiah Hornblower, American statesman ( d. 1809 )

* 1809 – William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan ( d. 1868 )

* 1809 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor ( d. 1884 )

* 1737 – Thomas Paine, English radical liberal philosopher, American revolutionary ( d. 1809 )

* John Ford Home, American National Register historic landmark in Mississippi's Marion County, Mississippi ; built in 1809 by one of region's earliest settlers, John Ford ( minister )

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

* 1740 – Noah Phelps, American Spy ( d. 1809 )

March 5 ) – June 28, 1836 ) was an American statesman and political theorist, the fourth President of the United States ( 1809 – 1817 ).

* 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet ( d. 1849 )

* 1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American statesman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1809 )