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| 1809 |
| | | Napoleon, in response to his excommunication, has pope Pius VII arrested and kept in captivity in northern Italy and then France | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Napoleon enters Vienna and defeats the Austrians in a battle at nearby Wagram | |
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| 1809 |
| | | French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck argues in Zoological Philosophy that creatures can inherit acquired characteristics | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Napoleon arranges to have his marriage to Josephine annulled so that he can marry the daughter of an emperor | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The Fulani establish a capital at Sokoto, from which they dominate the Hausa kingdoms of northern Nigeria | |
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| 1809 |
| | | John Moore dies at Corunna but his army escapes from Spain and gets back to England | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Rival British politicians Lord Castlereagh and George Canning fight a duel in which Canning is wounded | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The destruction of Drury Lane Theatre lights up the night sky | |
|  | Drury Lane Theatre on fire, Pether (detail)
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| 1810 |
| | | Mrs Daymer finds Strawberry Hill too expensive to keep up and relinquishes the estate to the eventual heir, Laura Countess of Waldegrave, the grand-daughter of Horace Walpole's brother Edward. | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Napoleon marries the Austrian archduchess Marie Louise, daughter of the emperor Francis I | |
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