Timeline
Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.
With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,
The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein
Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield
What Happened When by Carruth.
, History of the World. A beautiful Dorling Kindersley book.
I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.
Here is the start of 1809:
Year | Month Day | Event |
1809 | Jan 4 | Louis Braille (d.1852), inventor of a universal reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France. |
1809 | Jan 19 | Edgar Allan Poe (d.1949), American writer, was born in Boston. His father, David Poe, was an Irish-American actor and abandoned his family shortly after Edgar’s birth. His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins, died in 1811 and he grew up with a foster family. Poe studied briefly at the University of Virginia, but then he quarreled with his foster father and went to Boston in 1827, where he published his first volume of poetry anonymously. In the early 1840s Poe became known for his lyrical, brooding poems and detective stories, such as “The Gold Bug” and “Murders at the Rue Morgue.” In fact, he is recognized as the father of the modern detective story. Poe was unafraid to criticize literary practices of the time, stressing the importance of artistic value more than moral value. After battles with alcoholism and his wife Virginia’s illness and death, Poe became depressed but continued to write. He became engaged again in 1849 but soon died at the age of 40. His best known stories include: “Fall of the House of Usher ” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” His most famous poems are “The Raven” and Annabel Lee.” “I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, ‘a long poem,’ is simply a flat contradiction in terms.” |
1809 | Jan 20 | The 1st US geology book was published by William Maclure. |
1809 | January | January: Ackermann’s Repository of Arts begins publication. |
1809 | January | January: Sir John Moore’s demoralized forces stagger into Corunna, face attack from Marshall Soult’s troops, and are finally bundled onto transports back to England. Moore is killed in the battle. The failed campaign is a major political embarrassment to the British government. |
1809 | January | January: The Treaty of the Dardanelles is signed between Britain and the Ottoman Empire, affirming thatno warship of any nation may enter the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. The treaty is aimed implicitly against Russia, whose Black Sea fleet poses a threat to Britain in the Mediterranean, and it pledges British support for Constantinople in the event of a French declaration of war against the Turks. |
1809 | Feb 3 | US Congress passed an act establishing the Illinois Territory. |
1809 | Feb 4 | Louis Braille was born. He was blinded at age four as the result of an accident in his father’s shop. Nevertheless, he became an accomplished organist and cellist and won a scholarship in 1819 to attend the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. At age 15, Louis witnessed a demonstration there by Charles Barbier, a soldier who had invented “night writing,” a system of letters embossed on cardboard for silent communication along trenches. While Barbier’s system was too complex to be practical, Braille simplified and adapted it to a six-dot code representing letters that enabled people with impaired vision to not only read but also write for themselves. In 1827, the first Braille book was published, but Braille himself died of tuberculosis at age 43–before his system gained widespread acceptance. |
1809 | Feb 11 | Robert Fulton patented the steamboat. |
1809 | Feb 12 | Charles Robert Darwin (d.1882) was born. He proposed that evolution was the principle that underlay the development of all species and that man, an animal, had evolved from nonhuman ancestors. Shortly after his graduation from Cambridge, Darwin sailed as a naturalist with the surveying ship HMS Beagle. All life, he said, is a struggle for existence and some species are better able to adapt to the environment and survive to pass along their characteristics. During the five-year voyage, Darwin’s observations of wildlife led to the writing of his 1859 book “The Origin of the Species,” in which he proposed the theory of natural selection. Besides the “Origin of the Species,” he wrote three books on geology and devoted 8 years to his monograph on barnacles. His last book was “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.” In 1871 Darwin wrote “Descent of Man,” which demonstrated that man and ape could have had a common ancestor. Darwin’s theories were highly controversial and unsettling to those who believed in creationism. Many Victorians condemned Darwin as blasphemous, but many important scientists of the day agreed with his theories. “How can anyone not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service.” |
1809 | Feb 12 | Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US, was born in Hardin County (present-day Larue County), Kentucky. His father owned two 600-acre farms [time not given]. Lincoln was president of the United States during one of the most turbulent times in American history. Although roundly criticized during his own time, he is recognized as one of history’s greatest figures who preserved the Union during the Civil War and proved that democracy could be a lasting form of government. Lincoln entered national politics as a Whig congressman from Illinois, but he lost his seat after one term due to his unpopular position on the Mexican War and the extension of slavery into the territories. The 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates for the Senate gave him a national reputation. In 1860, Lincoln became the first president elected from the new Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. In 1996 a new biography of Abraham Lincoln by David Donald was published. |
1809 | Feb 15 | Cyrus Hall McCormick (d.1884), inventor of the mechanical reaper, was born. |
1809 | Feb 20 | The Supreme Court ruled that the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state. |
1809 | February | February: Austria declares war on France. |
1809 | February | February: Robert Fulton patents the steamboat. |
1809 | February | February: The Second Siege of Saragossa comes to an end when the Spanish finally surrender to French forces after what is considered one of the most brutal battles of the Napoleonic wars. Most of the city lay in ruins, and 54,000 people had perished in the siege. |
1809 | February | February: The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane burns down. |
1809 | Mar 1 | Embargo Act of 1807 was repealed and the Non-Intercourse Act signed. |
1809 | Mar 4 | Madison became 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes. |
1809 | Mar 12 | Great Britain signed a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country. |
1809 | Mar 15 | Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first president of Liberia, was born. |
1809 | Mar 27 | Georges-Eugene Haussmann (d.1891), French town planner, was born. He designed modern-day Paris. |
1809 | Mar 31 | Edward Fitzgerald, American writer, was born. He is famous for writing “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” |
1809 | Mar 31 | Nikolai V. Gogol (d.1852), Ukrainian-born Russian writer, was born (NS) in Sorochyntsi, Poltava Governorate (later Ukraine). Some sources give April 1 as his birthday. His work included the play “The Inspector General” (1836) and the novels “Taras Bulba” (1835) and “Dead Souls” (1842). |
1809 | Mar 31 | Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, was born. |
1809 | March | March: England signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country. |
1809 | March | March: James Madison becomes fourth President of the United States. |
1809 | March | March: Soult captures Oporto. |
1809 | March | March: The Duke of York resigns as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army when his mistress, Mary Anne Clarke, is accused of illegally selling army commisions under his aegis. |
1809 | March | March: The Quarterly Review begins pubication. |
1809 | Apr 10 | Austria declared war on France and her forces entered Bavaria. |
1809 | Apr 20 | Napoleon defeated Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria. |
1809 | Apr 22 | At the Battle at Eckmahl Napoleon beat Austrian archduke Karl. |
1809 | Apr 23 | Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, was born. |
1809 | April | April: Arthur Wellesley returns to Portugal to command the Anglo-Portuguese forces. |
1809 | April | April: Napoleon defeats the Austrians in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria and again at the Battle of Eckmühl. |
1809 | April | April: Wellesley drives Soult out of Oporto in one of the most brilliant operations of his military career. |
1809 | May 5 | Mary Kies was 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw). |
1809 | May 5 | Citizenship was denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. |
1809 | May 12 | Napoleon’s troops captured Vienna, Austria. |
1809 | May 17 | The Papal States were annexed by France. Pope Pius VII responded by excommunicating Napoleon. |
1809 | May 24 | Dartmoor Prison opened to house French prisoners of war. |
1809 | May 31 | Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, Austria on his 77th birthday. When Napoleon’s armies marched into Vienna, the commanding general posted guards in front of Haydn’s house to protect Haydn from trouble, and a young officer was sent to sing for the old man. |
1809 | May | May: Composer Franz Joseph Hadyn dies at age 77. |
1809 | May | May: Dartmoor Prison opens in England to hold French prisoners of war. |
1809 | May | May: Napoleon captures Vienna. |
1809 | May | May: Napoleon orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French empire and announces the Pope’s secular power has ended. Pope Pius VII is imprisoned after he excommunicates the emperor. |
1809 | Jun 3 | John “Christmas” Beckwith (58), composer, died. |
1809 | Jun 6 | Sweden declared independence and a constitutional monarchy was established. |
1809 | Jun 8 | Thomas Paine (b.1737), British born political essayist, died in poverty and obscurity in NYC at age 72. His revolutionary essays included “Common Sense” (1776) and “The Rights of Man” (1991) and “The Age of Reason.” His body was exhumed in 1819 by William Cobbett, shipped to England, and kept in an attic trunk till Cobbett died in 1835. Parts of his skeleton were later said to be sold at auction. In 2006 Craig Nelson authored “Thomas Paine” and Harvey J. Kaye authored “Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.” |
1809 | June | June: Thomas Paine, pamphleteer, revolutionary, and author of Rights of Man, dies at age 72. |
1809 | Jul 3 | Joseph Quesne (62), composer, died. |
1809 | Jul 5 | Pope Pius VII was taken prisoner to France and held there until 1814. |
1809 | Jul 5 to Jul 6 | Napoleon beat Austria’s archduke Charles at the Battle of Wagram. He annexed the Illyrian Provinces (now part of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro), and abolished the Papal States. |
1809 | Jul 16 | A well-prepared revolutionary insurrection burst out in La Paz, Bolivia. |
1809 | Jul 27 | In Bolivia a proclamation of independence of the La Paz colony, said to have been written by Priest Medina and the first proclamation of that kind, was released and sent to the other main cities of the colony, hoping they would support the uprising. |
1809 | Jul 27 to Jul 28 | Arthur Wellesley led the British army to triumph against the Spanish King Joseph Bonaparte at Talavera de la Reina against a French army twice his size. For this he was made Lord (the Duke of) Wellington. |
1809 | July | July: Napoleon defeats the Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram. |
1809 | July | July: Wellesley advances into Spain, joining forces with the Spanish army, under the command of General Gregorio de la Cuesta, at the Battle of Talavera. It is a decisive victory over the French, led by Joseph Bonaparte, and makes a hero of Wellesley at home. He is created Viscount Wellington. |
1809 | Aug 4 | Hapsburg Emp. Francis I appointed Count Clemens von Metternich (36) minister of state. |
1809 | Aug 6 | Alfred Lord Tennyson (d.1892), English poet laureate (1850), was born. His work included: “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” |
1809 | Aug 10 | Ecuador struck its first blow for independence from Spain. |
1809 | Aug 29 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, essayist and father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was born. |
1809 | August | August: 40,000 British troops commanded by John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, attempt an unseccessful expedition to the Netherlands in the expensive Walcheren Campaign, intending to open up a second British front against France in mainland Europe to aid Austria. Little fighting occurs, and most of the 4000 British casualties are lost to fever (known as “Walcheren Fever”). |
1809 | Sep 27 | Raphael Semmes (d.1877), Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), was born. |
1809 | Sep | The Old Price Riots broke out in England when Covent Garden manager John Philip Kemble raised ticket prices. The riots continued to December. |
1809 | September | September: A new Royal Theatre at Covent Garden opens in London to replace the one destroyed by fire in 1808. Ticket price increases lead to the Old Price Riots which last for 64 days. |
1809 | 4-Oct | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: Spencer Perceval |
1809 | Oct 8 | Hapsburg Emp. Francis I appointed Count Clemens von Metternich (36) foreign minister of Austria. |
1809 | Oct 11 | Meriwether Lewis committed suicide at 35. [see Oct 12] |
1809 | Oct 12 | Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, died under mysterious circumstances in St. Louis. [see Oct 11] |
1809 | Oct 14 | The Treaty of Schönbrunn, also known as the Treaty of Vienna, ended hostilities between France and Austria. This treaty ended the Fifth Coalition during the Napoleonic Wars. |
1809 | Oct 22 | Federico Ricci, composer, was born. |
1809 | Oct 27 | President James Madison ordered the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority. |
1809 | October | October: Spencer Perceval becomes Britain’s Prime Minister after the death of the Duke of Portland. |
1809 | Nov 13 | John A.B. Dahlgren, US Union Lt Adm and inventor (Civil war Dahlgren cannon), was born. |
1809 | Nov 22 | Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patented a steel pen. |
1809 | Nov 27 | Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (d.1893), Shakespearian actress, writer and anti-slavery activist, was born in London, England. Her work included “Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation. She died in London. |
1809 | Dec 9 | William Barret Travis, Commander of the Texas troops at the battle of the Alamo, was born. |
1809 | Dec 16 | Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate. Metternich had convinced Francis I of Austria to offer his daughter Marie Louise as a bride to Napoleon. |
1809 | Dec 24 | Kit Carson, one of the most famous mountain men and scouts in the West, was born in Kentucky. |
1809 | Dec 29 | William Gladstone (1809-1898), British statesman and four times Prime Minister from 1868-1894, was born. He was called the Grand Old Man of Victorian England. He began as a devout Tory but moved over to the liberal camp. A biography by Roy Jenkins, “Gladstone,” was published in 1995. |
1809 | Dec 30 | Wearing masks at balls was forbidden in Boston. |
1809 | Dec | In Danville, Kentucky, Dr. Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830) performed a successfully surgery on Jane Crawford (45) in which he removed an ovary and a large tumor with no anesthesia. Crawford lived to age 78 and was the world’s first known survivor of an elective exploration of the abdomen and removal of an ovary. The story was later told by David Dary in “Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific 1492-1941” (2008). |
1809 | England’s Two Thousand Guineas race has its first running at Newmarket. | |
1809 | The Bishop and His Clarke or a Peep Into Paradise by Thomas Rowlandson, 1809. The Duke of York (who also held the title Bishop of Osnabrück) is lampooned for succumbing to the demands of his mistress, Mary Anne Clarke. He says: “Ask anything in reason and you shall have it my dearest dearest dearest love.” She says: “Only remember the promotions I mentioned. I have pinned up the list at the head of the bed.” | |
1809 | ||
1809 | Russia defeats Sweden. Sweden loses Finland, which becomes an autonomous Grand Duchy within Russia’s empire. Returning to the Hawaiian Islands from California and hoping for trade, Russians build a fort at Honolulu and try to establish themselves on the island of Kauai. They ignore Hawaiian customs and are driven out. | |
1809 | Napoleon is spread thin. The Austrians defeat him at the Battle of Aspern-Essling, and he loses his reputation for invincibility. The Austrians fail to follow up on their victory. Napoleon organizes an assault and defeats the Austrians. The Austrians make peace with Napoleon. | |
1809 | Napoleon’s economic blockade is not working. Britain’s exports reach an all-time high. | |
1809 | William Cave created his painting “The Trusty Servant,” a uniformed pig with a padlocked mouth. | |
1809 | Lamarck wrote his classic “Philosophie zoologique.” In 1997 this edition was valued at $3,500-$5,000. | |
1809 | Boston’s Exchange Coffee House, which also contained a hotel and offices, opened and was said to be the largest building in the country. It burned down in 1818. | |
1809 | Elizabeth Bayley Seton founded the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity. She was later made a Catholic saint. | |
1809 | Thomas Leiper laid the first railroad track in the US at Crum Creek, Pa. They were wooden. | |
1809 | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US president (1801-1809) retired to Monticello, Va. | |
1809 | Connecticut Sen. James Hillhouse proposed a constitutional amendment under which the president would be elected by lot from among the senators. | |
1809 | Meriwether Lewis died of gunshot wounds near present-day Hohenwald, Tenn. It was uncertain whether he was killed or committed suicide. | |
1809 | Bourne’s Pottery in Denby, Derbyshire, England, dates to this time. In 1850 it began using the J. Bourne & Son mark. | |
1809 | Nicholas Appert won a French prize of 12,000 francs for his method of keeping food in glass bottles. Napoleon had offered the prize with military needs in mind. | |
1809 | Lord Byron (1788-1824) traveled to Spain, Albania and Greece with John Cam Hobhouse and soon met with Ali Pasha. | |
1809 | King Kamehameha conquered and unified all the Hawaiian islands. | |
1809 | Sibbet House at 26 Northumberland St. was constructed in a Georgian design in Edinburgh, Scotland. | |
1809 | Russia took the Aland island group from the Swedes and held it until the Russian Revolution. | |
1809-1817 | James Madison served as President of the US. | |
1809-1826 | Civilians and soldiers who returned home from Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt (1798-1801) published during this period in serial form “Description de l’Egypte” (The Description of Egypt), the most comprehensive view of Egypt to date. | |
1809-1891 | Alexander William Kinglake, English historian. | |
1809-1894 | Tryon Edwards, American clergyman: “One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: Do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.” | |
1809-1894 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, American author: “A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.” | |
1809-1917 | Finland was an autonomous grand duchy under the Czar of Russia. |
That’s right, today is the first week that it is available. Kindle’s today, and then in a week or so, you can have it in your hands physically if you so desire in Trade Paperback form as the other releases from our publisher, Regency Assembly Press does.
This release the publisher is trying out the Kindle Select program so it is exclusive to Amazon for 90 days. What that means for you, a reader, is that should you have
1) a Kindle
2) Are a member of Amazon Prime
then you can borrow the book, free to you, and try before you buy (always, please buy.)
For myself and Regency Assembly Press it is an experiment. RAP (And we hope you all are RAPpers and not RAPscallions) wants to see if this will work. They have also reduced the price of this book to half of what RAP books sell for. $3.99 for an electronic copy.
If you do not have an actual Kindle, Amazon has made it possible to read this book on virtually any electronic device. GO HERE if you want to get a copy for something other than a Kindle, or wait patiently until right before Thanksgiving (November 15th) when it will be released in all other digital formats.
Here is a picture, which of course you can click on to go fetch the book:
Love is something that can not be fostered by deceit even should one’s eyes betray one’s heart.
Two brothers that are so close in appearance that only a handful have ever been able to tell them apart. The Earl of Kent, Percival Francis Michael Coldwell is only older than his brother, Peregrine Maxim Frederick Coldwell by 17 minutes. They may have looked as each other, but that masked how they were truthfully quite opposite to one another.
For Percy, his personality was one that he was quite comfortable with and more than happy to let Perry be of a serious nature. At least until he met Veronica Hamilton, the daughter of Baron Hamilton of Leith. She was only interested in a man who was serious.
Once more, Peregrine is obliged to help his older brother by taking his place, that the Earl may woo the young lady who has captured his heart. That is, until there is one who captures Peregrine’s heart as well.
Available in other digital formats on 11/15/2012
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