* 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott in 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork.

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

In 1909, at 16 years of age, Newby began regularly playing records on a small spark transmitter while a student at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless, located in San Jose, California, under the authority of radio pioneer Charles " Doc " Herrold.

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

" Hermóðr | Hermod before Hela " ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman.

An earlier attempt, the Harvard Classics ( 1909 ), was promulgated by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, whose thesis was the same as Carlyle's:

* April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet ( d. 1909 )

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

DeWolfe Howe ( New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1909 ) – edited letters to his wife, Ellen Ewing Sherman, from 1837 to 1888.

* British — Bantock, Sir Granville: Pierrot of the Minute: Overture to a Dramatic Fantasy of Ernest Dowson ( 1908 ; see under England above ); Holbrooke, Joseph Charles: Ballet Suite # 1, " Pierrot ", for String and Full Orchestra ( 1909 ).

* British — Holbrooke, Joseph Charles: Pierrot and Pierrette ( 1909 ; libretto by Walter E. Grogan ).

Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).

Sif ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman

The Ride of the Valkyrs ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman

A Brooklyn socialite and former wife of businessman Charles Duryea, she met Johnson at a car race in 1909.

* Charles Jones ( footballer born 1888 ) ( 1888 – after 1909 ), English-born football outside left who played for Birmingham and Bristol Rovers

In March 1909, Charles H. Workman assumed control of the theatre, producing three new pieces, including one by Gilbert himself, Fallen Fairies ( music by Edward German ).

" The Wolves Pursuing Sol and Mani " ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman | J. C. Dollman.

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.

From 1909 to 1951, Charles G. Dawes lived in this Charles G. Dawes House | house at 225 Greenwood St. in Evanston, Illinois, which was built in 1894 by Robert Sheppard.

* 1909 – The U. S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.

* 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician ( d. 1998 )

* John Robert Brown ( judge ) ( 1909 – 1993 ), member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights

* 1909 – U. S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U. S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U. S. Secretary of State

* 1978 – Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U. S. State of Arizona ( b. 1909 )

* Andrade, John M. U. S. Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909.

In 1909, Frederick F. Russell, a U. S. Army physician, developed an American typhoid vaccine and two years later his vaccination program became the first in which an entire army was immunized.

* October 4 – Frederic S. Remington, cowboy artist and sculptor ( d. 1909 )

* Lithuanian — Lipchitz, Jacques ( worked mainly in France and U. S. A .): Pierrot ( 1909 ), Detachable Figure ( Pierrot ) ( 1915 ), Pierrot with Clarinet ( 1919 ), Seated Pierrot ( 1922 ), Pierrot ( 1925 ), Pierrot with Clarinet ( 1926 ), Pierrot Escapes ( 1927 ).

* French — Debussy, Claude: Sonata for Cello and Piano ( 1915 ; Debussy had considered calling it " Pierrot angry at the moon "); Popy, Francis: Pierrot Sleeps ( n. d .; violin and piano ); Salzedo, Carlos ( worked mainly in U. S. A .): " Pierrot is Sad ", from Sketches for Harpist Beginners, two series ( 1942 ; harp ); Satie, Erik: " Pierrot's Dinner " ( 1909 ; piano ).

In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88 ° 23 ′ S, 97 geographical miles ( 112 statute miles, 190 km ) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time.

On 9 January 1909 Shackleton and three companions ( Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams ) reached a new Farthest South latitude of 88 ° 23 ′ S, a point only from the Pole.

Segovia's first public performance was in Spain at the age of 16 in 1909, and a few years later he held his first professional concert in Madrid, playing works by Francisco Tárrega and some guitar transcriptions by J. S.

* Bay Tree Lodge ( Kiplinger House ), 143 S. River Road ( originally 104 S. Sewall's Point Road ), Sewall's Point, 1909

His patent for a " waste paper receptacle " to offer an improved method of disposing of waste paper was filed on February 2, 1909 and received the U. S. patent number 929, 960 on August 31, 1909.

On June 17, 1911, after he graduated from high school, del Valle received an appointment by George Radcliffe Colton, who served from 1909 to 1913 as the U. S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, to attend the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

The first resort, " Kavkazskaya Riviera ", opened on June 14, 1909 ( O. S .).

The Washington State Legislature officially created Grant County February 24, 1909, and named after President Ulysses S. Grant.

The county also includes parts of Superior National Forest, established in 1909, and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness within it on the U. S .- Canadian border, established in 1978.