WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1809
Find out what all happened February to December 1809

Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin. (28. March 1809)

London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. (24. February 1809)

The Battle of Wagram is fought. (5. July 1809)

Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand. (11. October 1809)

The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars. (6. July 1809)

Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor. (25. December 1809)

Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte. (28. July 1809)

Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria. (10. April 1809)

Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence. (25. May 1809)

In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal. (18. November 1809)

Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom (11. April 1809)

Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real. (27. March 1809)

Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état. (13. March 1809)

Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. (5. May 1809)

King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. (29. March 1809)

Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn. (17. September 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. (20. April 1809)

The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews. (5. May 1809)

The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo. (16. July 1809)

Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl. (21. April 1809)