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Year 1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1808
January - March
- January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned; this is also the earliest day under the United States Constitution that an amendment could be made restricting slavery.
- January 12 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
- January 22 - The Bragança Portuguese Royal Family arrives in Brazil, running away from the French army.
- 26 January - Rum Rebellion: On the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of the colony of New 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 - Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join France, Denmark and Russia and attacks Finland.
- February 2 - French troops occupy Papal States (Vatican).
- February 6 - Ship Topaz (from Boston April 5, 1807 hunting seals) rediscovers Pitcairn Islands: only one HMS Bounty mutineer was still alive, Alexander Smith (John Adams).
- February 11 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Discovery leads to use of coal as key fuel source of America's industrial revolution.
- February 21 - Russian troops cross border to Finland without declaration of war - the Finnish War begins
- March 2 - Russian troops occupy Helsinki and threaten Sveaborg
- March 8 - Empire of the Brazil. With the arrival of the portuguese royal family in Brazil (1808), the colony was called New Portugal.
- March 11 - Russian troops occupy Tampere
- March 2 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
- March 22 - Russian troops occupy Turku
- March 26 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII
April - June
July - September
October - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
January - June
- January 6 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
- 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)
- April 20 - Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873)
- May 22 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
- June 3 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States (d. 1889)
- June 16 - James Frederick Ferrier, scottish metaphysical writer and philosopher
- June 17 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
- June 20 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
July - December
- See also Category: 1808 births.
Deaths
January - June
July - December
- See also Category: 1808 deaths.
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