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1809
 
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The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms      
1809
 
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Klemens von Metternich becomes foreign minister to the Austrian emperor Francis II       
1809
 
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The Treaty of Fort Wayne is the climax of seven years in which William Henry Harrison has acquired millions of acres from the American Indians       
1809
 
   
Washington Irving uses the fictional Dutch scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker as the supposed author of his comic History of New York      
1809
 
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With acts of defiance in Sucre, Bolivia becomes the first American province to rebel against the Spanish authorities      
1809
 
    
Ranjit Singh, maharaja of the Punjab, agrees an eastern boundary between himself and the British in the Treaty of Amritsar       
1809
 
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British commander Arthur Wellesley builds the lines of Torres Vedras, to defend the promontory leading south to Lisbon       
1809
 
     
Napoleon annexes the Papal States and is excommunicated by the pope, Pius VII        
1809
 
   
French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac shows that when gases combine they do so in simple ratios by volume (later known as his Law of Combining Volumes)      
1809
 
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In the Treaty of Hamina (or Fredrikshamn), Sweden cedes Finland to Russia as an autonomous grand duchy