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unusual facts about 1809



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September 3Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and lifelong key partner of James Watt (d. 1809)

Adam Neale

Neale published in 1809 Letters from Portugal and Spain, an account of the operations of the armies under Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, from the landing of the troops in Mondego Bay to the battle of Coruña.

Albanian Pashaliks

The Pashalik of Berat was a pashalik created in modern day central Albania by Ahmet Kurt Pasha in 1774 and dissolved after Ahmet's ally, Ibrahim Pasha of Berat was defeated by Ali Pasha in 1809, thus incorporating the pashalik, with the Pashalik of Janina.

Alexander McKim

McKim was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses, where he served from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1815.

Anna Valley

Tasker Waterloo Iron Works(Taskers of Andover) opened here in 1809 and survived as a manufacturing industry until final closure in 1984.

Barzillai Gannett

Gannett was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from March 4, 1809, until his resignation in 1812.

Bouché

Carl David Bouché (1809-1881), German botanist and gardener, nephew of Peter Friedrich

Charles Cathcart

Charles W. Cathcart (1809 – 1888), United States Representative and Senator from Indiana

Charles Gold

Charles Emilius Gold (1809–1871), New Zealand soldier and artist, son of the above

Commodore Nutt

: Not to be confused with United States Representative from New Hampshire, George W. Morrison (October 16, 1809 – December 21, 1888)

Daniel Sheffey

Sheffey was elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817).

Edmund Filmer

Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (1809–1857), Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kent 1838–1857

François-André Baudin

In November 1809 Baudin was ordered to take the 80-gun ships of the line Robuste and Borée, the 74-gun Lion and the frigates Pauline and Pomone and escort a twenty ship convoy from Toulon to Barcelona to supply the Napoleonic forces fighting the Peninsular War.

Frederic Shoberl

From 1809 he began editing Rudolph Ackermann's '‘Repository of Arts’' which had just started and was only at its third edition.

French ship Jean Bart

On the morning of 1 September 1809, HMS Nassau was escorting a convoy of East Indiamen in the English Channel when she sighted a strange sail.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto

The district of Minto in New South Wales, Australia, was named after him in 1809.

Governor Murray

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies

Haws

John Henry Hobart Haws (1809-1858), United States Representative from New York

Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke

Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke (July 3, 1752 – May 2, 1809), German theologian, best known as a writer on church history, was born at Hehlen, Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Henry Bristow Wilson

He entered Merchant Taylors' School in October 1809, and was elected to St John's College, Oxford, in 1821.

Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

As First Lord he was heavily involved in planning both the successful expedition against Copenhagen in 1807, and the disastrous one to Walcheren in 1809.

History of Kathmandu

Further west, general Amar Singh Thapa overran lands as far as the Kangra – the strongest fort in the hill region – and laid siege to it (although by 1809, Ranjit Singh the ruler of the Sikh state in the Punjab, had intervened and driven the Nepalese army east of the Sutlej river).

Ichabod Crane Central School District

Washington Irving lived in the Village of Kinderhook in 1809 and wrote the Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow short stories which take place regionally and is the reason why the high school in Valatie is named "Ichabod Crane".

Johann Schweighäuser

Mention may also be made of his Enchiridion of Epictetus and Tabula of Cebes (1798), which appeared at the time when the doctrines of the Stoics were fashionable; the letters of Seneca to Lucilius (1809); corrections and notes to Suidas (1789); some moral philosophy essays.

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – 25 February 1809), generally known as Lord Dunmore, was a Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies.

Joseph August Knip

At the end of 1809 he went to Rome, where he remained until 1812; he also travelled, to Naples, the Sabine Hills, the Alban Hills, and the Campagna.

Joseph Romilly

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1809, became a scholar of the college, and graduated B.A. in 1813 as fourth wrangler.

Karl von Seinsheim

He held similar posts in the government councils of Trento in 1808, Straubing in 1809, Salzburg in 1810, and Munich in 1817.

Kraków Cloth Hall

In the past, balls were held here, most notably after Prince Józef Poniatowski had briefly liberated the city from the Austrians in 1809.

Laban Wheaton

Wheaton was elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817).

Laurent Cerise

In 1843 with Jacques-Joseph Moreau (1804-1884), Jules Baillarger (1809-1890) and François Achille Longet (1811-1871), he founded the psychiatric journal Annales médico-psychologiques.

Lobau

The Lobau was the site of the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809, the first major defeat suffered by Napoléon, which was inflicted on him by an Austrian army led by Archduke Charles, and of the Battle of Wagram, a victory for Napoleon that followed two months later.

Lobb

William Lobb (1809–1864), a British botanist (brother of Thomas Lobb)

Ludvig Stoud Platou

From 1807 to 1809 he was a part-time teacher at the Norwegian Military Academy, and from 1808 to 1814 he edited the government's magazine Budstikken.

Mar Lodge Estate

In 1809 – Alexander Duff succeeded his brother, becoming the 3rd Earl Fife.

Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) was a teenage resident and later the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Park Benjamin, Sr.

He was born in Demerara, British Guiana, August 14, 1809, but was early sent to New England, and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He practiced law in Boston, but abandoned it for editorial work there and later in New York.

Peter und Ännchen

Peter und Ännchen premiered on September 29, 1809 in the theatre of the Ludwigsburg Palace near Stuttgart.

Pictet

François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809 - 1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay (14 December 1748 – 3 January 1809, Vienna), comte d'Orsay, was a collector of sculptures, paintings and drawings (which he left to the Louvre).

René Lemarant de Kerdaniel

In 1809, he took command of the Astrée and sailed to Île de France to reinforce the frigate squadron under Hamelin, where he witnesses the last stages of the Battle of Grand Port and helped sealing the fate of the last remaining British frigate.

Samuel Purviance

Samuel Anderson Purviance (1809 – 1882), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

Sintra

In 1809 Lord Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson, "I must just observe that the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful in the world."

Sir Christopher Robinson

He gained conspicuous success in this branch of the profession, was knighted on 6 February 1809, and was appointed, on 1 March 1809, to succeed Sir John Nicholl as king's advocate.

Tottenham High Cross

The high cross was constructed of plain brick, in an octagonal, four level design, which was later stuccoed and ornamented in the Gothic style in 1809.

Treaty of Vienna

Treaty of Vienna (1809) (also known as the Treaty of Schönbrunn) France/Austria - following Austria's defeat during the Napoleonic Wars

Valborg Lerche

She was born in Sem as a ship-owner Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche, Sr. (1809–1894) and Christine Marie Rosenvinge (1839–1926), and a much younger half-sister of Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche.

Vincent Mathews

He was elected as a Federalist to the 11th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1811.

William Cavendish-Bentinck

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister

William Rathbone IV

William Rathbone IV (10 June 1757 – 11 February 1809) was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool, England.


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