What Happened in January 1809

Historical Events

Jan 1 Holland Brigade under Brigadier-General David Hendrik Chassé reaches Madrid (Napoleonic Wars)
Jan 5 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France

Conquest of Cayenne

Jan 6 Napoleonic Wars: Invasion of Cayenne, by combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces, begins

Jan 12 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814)
Jan 16 Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna
Jan 20 1st US geology book published by William Maclure

Events in 1809

Famous Birthdays

Jan 1 John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician, writer and poet (Silver Fleet) (d. 1876)
Jan 2 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, German composer, voice teacher and musicologist, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1888)

Louis Braille (1809-1852)

Jan 4 French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind, born in Coupvray, France

Jan 15 Cornelia Connelly, American foundress (Society of the Holy Child Jesus), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1879)
Jan 15 Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French politician and philosopher ("father of anarchism"), born in Besançon, France (d. 1865)
Jan 18 Richard C. Gatlin, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Kinston, North Carolina (d. 1896)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Jan 19 American writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue), born in Boston, Massachusetts

Jan 20 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish-Basque composer (La Paloma), born in Lanciego, Álava, Spain (d. 1865)
Jan 23 Veer Surendra Sai, Indian freedom fighter & tribal leader, born in Sambalpur district, India (d. 1884)

Born in 1809

Famous Deaths

Jan 4 Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67
Jan 16 Sir John Moore, British General, at the Battle of Corunna (b. 1761)
Jan 21 Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)

What Happened in 1809

Abraham Lincoln, the Presidential Icon
February 12, 1809

Abraham Lincoln, the Presidential Icon