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What Happened in December 1809

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Historical Events

  • Dec 25 Physician Ephraim McDowell performs the first abdominal surgery in the U.S, an ovariotomy to remove a 22 lb ovarian tumor
  • Dec 26 British invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
  • Dec 30 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
Events in 1809

Famous Birthdays

  • Dec 3 Thomas Alfred Davies, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Black Lake, New York (d. 1899)
  • Dec 6 Stephen Thomas, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Bethel, Vermont (d. 1903)
  • Dec 16 Pieter van Bosse, Dutch politician, Liberal Minister of Finance, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1879)
  • Dec 19 Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belgian paleontologist (life cycle of tapeworms), born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1894)
  • Dec 20 Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, German composer, born in Oldisleben, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1858)

Kit Carson (1809-1868)

Dec 24 American frontiersman, Indian fighter and army officer, born in Madison County, Kentucky

Kit Carson
  • Dec 26 William Nelson Pendleton, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1883)
  • Dec 29 Albert Pike, US attorney, soldier, writer, and freemason (Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1891)

William Gladstone (1809-1898)

Dec 29 British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Liberal: 1868-74, 1880-86, 1892-94), born in Liverpool, England

William Gladstone

Born in 1809

Famous Divorces

Napoléon Bonaparte

Dec 16 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Joséphine by French Senate

Napoléon Bonaparte

Famous Deaths

  • Dec 16 Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
  • Dec 22 William Cooper, American judge and developer (founded Cooperstown, New York), dies at 55
  • Dec 31 Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75


What Happened in 1809

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