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1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1808th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 808th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1808, 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:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
Years:	1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811

1808 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1808 MDCCCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2561
Armenian calendar	1257 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6558
Balinese saka calendar	1729–1730
Bengali calendar	1215
Berber calendar	2758
British Regnal year	48 Geo. 3 – 49 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2352
Burmese calendar	1170
Byzantine calendar	7316–7317
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4505 or 4298 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4506 or 4299
Coptic calendar	1524–1525
Discordian calendar	2974
Ethiopian calendar	1800–1801
Hebrew calendar	5568–5569
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1864–1865
- Shaka Samvat	1729–1730
- Kali Yuga	4908–4909
Holocene calendar	11808
Igbo calendar	808–809
Iranian calendar	1186–1187
Islamic calendar	1222–1223
Japanese calendar	Bunka5 (文化5年)
Javanese calendar	1734–1735
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4141
Minguo calendar	104 before ROC 民前104年
Nanakshahi calendar	340
Thai solar calendar	2350–2351
Tibetan calendar	阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1934 or 1553 or 781 — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1935 or 1554 or 782

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Events

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January–March

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January 1
- The importation of slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into Cuba, and until the island abolishes slavery in 1865, half a million slaves will arrive on the island.^[1]
- Sierra Leone becomes a British Crown Colony.^[2]
January 12
- The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver in south east England, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
January 22 – Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil: John (Dom João), Prince Regent, and the Bragança royal family of Portugal arrive in their colony of Brazil in exile from the French occupation of their home kingdom.
January 26 – Rum Rebellion: On the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the colonyofNew South Wales, disgruntled military officers of the New South Wales Corps (the Rum Corps) overthrow and imprison Governor William Bligh and seize control of the colony.
February 2 – French troops occupy the Papal States.
February 6 – The ship Topaz (from Boston April 5, 1807, hunting seals) rediscovers the Pitcairn Islands; only one HMS Bounty mutineer is still alive, John Adams, who is using the pseudonym Alexander Smith.
February 11 – In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jesse Fell becomes the first person in the world to burn anthracite coal as residential heating fuel.
February 21
- The Finnish War begins as Russian troops cross the border into Finland without a declaration of war.
- Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join Napoleon's Continental System against the United Kingdom.^[3]
March 1 – The slave trade is abolished by the United Kingdom in all of its colonies as the Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect.^[4] This year, the British Royal Navy establishes the West Africa Squadron on the coast of West Africa to enforce the abolitionist Blockade of Africa.
March 2
- Russian troops occupy Helsinki and threaten Sveaborg.
- The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
March 7 – Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil: The Portuguese royal court arrives in Rio de Janeiro, making it the centre of the Portuguese Empire.
March 11 – Russian troops occupy Tampere in Finland.
March 13 – Upon the death of Christian VII, Frederick VI becomes king of Denmark. The next day (March 14), Denmark declares war on Sweden.
March 19 – Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
March 22
- Russian troops occupy Turku in Finland.
- English Wars: Battle of Zealand Point – British ships defeat those of Denmark and Norway.

April–June

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April
- A volcano erupts from an unknown location in the western Pacific. This causes a localized drop in marine air temperatures during this year and a worldwide drop in marine air temperature for the following decade.^[5]
- Prussian philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte publishes his Addresses to the German Nation, having delivered them over the winter at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin before crowded audiences.
April 6 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
April 16 – Troops under Colonel Carl von Döbeln clash with Russian troops in Pyhäjoki, Finland.
May 2 – Peninsular War: Dos de Mayo Uprising – The people of Madrid rise up against the French troops.
May 3
- Finnish War: The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia.
- The Madrid rebels who rose on May 2 are executed near the hill of Príncipe Pío (Goya paints the fight and the execution in 1814).
May 6 – Ferdinand is forced to abdicate as King of Spain by Napoleon. This effectively ends the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) as the United Kingdom allies with Spain and Portugal against the French in the Peninsular War.
June 12 – Finnish War: A landing of Swedish troops at Ala-Lemu, near Turku, fails.
June 15–August 14 – Peninsular War: First siege of Zaragoza – Spanish resist the French.
June 19 – Finnish War: A second landing of Swedish troops at Ala-Lemu fails.
June 30
- Finnish War – Battle of Turku: The Swedish archipelago fleet defeats the Russians.
- English chemist Humphry Davy informs the Royal Society of London of his isolation and discovery of two elements by electrolysis. From lime, he has produced calcium and established that lime is calcium oxide; by heating boric acid and potassium in a copper tube, he creates a substance he calls boracium, which is eventually called boron.^[6] This year he also isolates magnesium and strontium.

July–September

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July 5 – Wooster, Ohio, established and named for General Wooster.
July 8 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain, during the Peninsular War.
July 14 – Finnish War: Swedish troops under Colonel Adlercreutz force the Russians to withdraw in Lapua.
July 22 – Battle of Bailén: French General Dupont surrenders to Spanish irregular forces.
August 1 – Peninsular War: British expeditionary force lands near Porto.^[2]
August 10 – Finnish War: Swedish troops under Carl von Döbeln defeat a Russian attack in Kauhajoki.
August 17
- Peninsular War: Battle of Roliça: A British-Portuguese army under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeats an outnumbered French army under General Henri Delaborde.
- The Finnish War: the Battle of Alavus was fought.^[7]
August 21 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vimeiro: British-Portuguese troops under Wellesley defeat the French under General Jean-Andoche Junot.
September 13 – Finnish War – Battle of Jutas: Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
September 27 – The Congress of Erfurt, between the emperors Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia, begins.
September 29 – Finnish War: A truce is declared between Swedish and Russian troops in Finland; it ends on October 19.

October–December

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October 6 – English chemist Humphry Davy electrochemically isolates potassium from potash.^[8]
October 12 – Banco do Brasil, a major financial groupinSouth America, founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^{[page needed]}
November 8 – 1808 United States presidential election: James Madison defeats Charles C. Pinckney, winning 122 electoral votes to Pinckney's 47. Ten of the 17 states choose their electors by popular vote, the rest choose through state legislatures. George Clinton, who is separately elected as vice president, gets six electoral votes for president.^[9]
November 12 – Four large French frigates under the command of Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, including the Venus, are sent to operate from Isle de France (Mauritius) against British trade in the Indian Ocean, triggering the Mauritius campaign of 1809–11.^[10]
November 15 – Mahmud II (1808–1839) succeeds Mustafa IV (1807–1808), as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
November 19 – A new truce at Olkijoki ends fighting in Finland, and Swedish troops concede that area to Russia.^[11]
November 23 – Battle of Tudela: French Marshal Lannes defeats a Spanish army.
December 1 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia.^[12]
December 4 – Napoleon joins his army in Spain.^[13]
December 9 – At 20:34 UTC, Mercury occults Saturn (there are no observation records).
December 20
- Peninsular War: Second siege of Zaragoza begins.
- The original Covent Garden Theatre in London is destroyed by a fire, along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.
December 22 – Beethoven concert of 22 December 1808: Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and plays piano in a marathon benefit concert, at the Theater an der WieninVienna, consisting entirely of first public performances of works by him, including Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, Piano Concerto No. 4 and Choral Fantasy.

Date unknown

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Goethe's Faust, Part One (Faust. Eine Tragödie, erster Teil) is published in full in Tübingen.
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.
The Rijksmuseum moves from The HaguetoAmsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.^[14]

Births

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January–June

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Carl Spitzweg

Napoleon III

Jefferson Davis

January 6 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
January 13 – Salmon P. Chase, American politician, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
January 19 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
January 27 – David Strauss, German theologian (d. 1874)
February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. 1879)
March 1 – Edward "Ned" Kendall, American bandleader, instrumentalist (keyed bugle) (d. 1861)
March 17 – Pierre-Louis Dietsch, French composer, conductor (d. 1865)
March 19 – José María Urvina, 5th President of Ecuador (d. 1891)
March 24 – Maria Malibran, née García, Spanish-French operatic singer (d. 1836)
April 13 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-born inventor (d. 1889)
April 20 – Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873)
May 6 – William Strong, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1895)
May 9 – John Scott Russell, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1882)
May 18 – Venancio Flores, general, president of Uruguay (d. 1868)
May 21 – David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (d. 1890)
May 22 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
May 30 – Caroline Chisholm, Australian humanitarian (d. 1877)
June 3 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States (d. 1889)
June 13 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, first president of the Third Republic (1875-1879) (d. 1893)
June 16 – James Frederick Ferrier, Scottish metaphysical writer and philosopher (d. 1864)
June 17 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
June 20 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)

July–December

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Jesse W. Fell

Andrew Johnson

July 9 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer, military leader (d. 1887)
July 16 – Daniel Wells Jr., American politician (d. 1902)
September 7 – William Lindley, English sanitary engineer (d. 1900)
September 9 – Wendela Hebbe, Swedish journalist (d. 1899)
September 12 – August von Werder, Prussian general (d. 1887)
September 15 – John Hutton Balfour, Scottish botanist (d. 1884)
September 29 – Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
October 6 – King Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863)
October 20 – Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
November 1 – John Taylor, American Mormon leader (d. 1887)
November 2 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
November 6 – Friedrich Julius Richelot, German mathematician (d. 1875)
November 10 – Jesse W. Fell, American businessman and landowner (d. 1887)^[15]
November 29 – William F. Johnston, American politician (d. 1872)
December 29 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)

Deaths

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January–June

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John Dickinson

Christian VII of Denmark

January 4 – Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general in the French Revolution (b. 1741)
January 5 – Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Russian soldier and statesman (b. 1737)
January 8 – William Linn, American President of Queen's College) (b. 1752)
February 12 – Anna Maria Bennett, English novelist (d. 1750)
February 14 – John Dickinson, American lawyer, governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
March 13 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
May 18 – Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor (b. 1738)
March 19 – John Redman (physician), American physician (b. 1722)

John Burgoyne
May 28 – Richard Hurd, English bishop, writer (b. 1720)

July–December

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Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester

September 3 – John Montgomery, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1722)
September 5 – John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
September 6 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
September 13 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
September 17 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
October 1 – Carl Gotthard Langhans, German architect (b. 1732)
October 9 – John Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
November 3 – Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (b. 1723)
November 10 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier, governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
November 17 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)

References

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^ Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning, 2008)

^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 242–243. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

^ E. I. Kouri and Jens E. Olesen, eds. The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

^ Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants (1844, reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2011) p136

^ Chenoweth, M. (2001), Two major volcanic cooling episodes derived from global marine air temperature, AD 1807–1827, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(15), 2963–2966, doi:10.1029/2000GL012648.

^ Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa and Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side (Oxford University Press, 2014)

^ Hornborg, Eirik (1955). När riket sprängdes: fälttågen i Finland och Västerbotten, 1808-1809 (in Swedish). Stockholm: P. A. Norstedts och Söners Förlag.

^ "England's Greatest Chemist, Sir Humphry Davy", by John A. Bowes, in Young England magazine (Sunday School Union, 1883) p63

^ Thomas Hudson McKee, The National Conventions and Platforms of All Political Parties (Friedenwald, 1901) p18

^ William James and Frederick Chamier, The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 5 (Macmillan and Company, 1902) p53

^ Jón Stefánsson, Denmark and Sweden: With Iceland and Finland (T.F. Unwin, Ltd., 1916) p332

^ Edward C. Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710-1870 (Princeton University Press, 2014) p85

^ James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard, eds., Outlines of European History: From the opening of the eighteenth century to the present day (Ginn and Company, 1912) p214

^ "The beginning". History of the Rijksmuseum. Rijksmuseum. Retrieved February 2, 2018.

^ Sarah M. Fell: Genealogy of the Fell family in America, descended from Joseph Fell, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1705 : With some account of the family remaining in England, &c. Sickler, Philadelphia, 1891, p. 139: Jesse W. Fell [1]

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