1809

1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1809th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 809th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1809, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  – 1800s –  1810s  1820s  1830s
Years:	1806 1807 1808 – 1809 – 1810 1811 1812

1809 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1809 MDCCCIX
Ab urbe condita	2562
Armenian calendar	1258 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	6559
Balinese saka calendar	1730–1731
Bengali calendar	1216
Berber calendar	2759
British Regnal year	49 Geo. 3 – 50 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2353
Burmese calendar	1171
Byzantine calendar	7317–7318
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4505 or 4445     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4506 or 4446
Coptic calendar	1525–1526
Discordian calendar	2975
Ethiopian calendar	1801–1802
Hebrew calendar	5569–5570
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1865–1866
- Shaka Samvat	1730–1731
- Kali Yuga	4909–4910
Holocene calendar	11809
Igbo calendar	809–810
Iranian calendar	1187–1188
Islamic calendar	1223–1224
Japanese calendar	Bunka 6 (文化６年)
Javanese calendar	1735–1736
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4142
Minguo calendar	103 before ROC 民前103年
Nanakshahi calendar	341
Thai solar calendar	2351–2352
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1935 or 1554 or 782     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1936 or 1555 or 783

Events

None at this time

Births

• January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (d. 1852).
• January 15 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)
• January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
• February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
• February 12 – Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States (d. 1865)
• February 12 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)
• February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
• March 31 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
• April 15 – Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
• June 4 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896)
• June 4 – John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871)
• June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
• August 6 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
• August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
• August 27 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, fifteenth Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)
• August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
• October 22 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
• December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
• December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)

Deaths

None at this time