1808 Calendar
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1808 Historical Event(s)
February 11, 1808
– Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
March 2, 1808
– The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
March 26, 1808
– Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
April 6, 1808
– John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America’s first millionaire.
June 6, 1808
– Napoleon’s brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
June 15, 1808
– Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
July 8, 1808
– Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
August 21, 1808
– Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
September 14, 1808
– Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
October 14, 1808
– The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
Who Were Born On 1808?
January 6, 1808
– Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
January 19, 1808
– Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
February 3, 1808
– Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess of Prussia (d. 1877)
February 26, 1808
– Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
April 20, 1808
– Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
May 2, 1808
– Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin, (d. 1896)
May 22, 1808
– Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
July 9, 1808
– Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887)
July 15, 1808
– Henry Edward Manning, English Catholic archbishop and cardinal (d. 1892)
October 1, 1808
– Mary Anna Custis Lee, American plantation owner and wife of Robert E. Lee (d. 1873)