1808
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th centuryDecades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years: 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 - 1808 - 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813
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- 1808 in art
- 1808 in literature
- 1808 in music
- 1808 in science
- 1808 in sports
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Events
- January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned
- February 11 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
- February - Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join France Denmark and Russia and attacks Finland.
- March 26 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII
- April 6 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
- May 3 - The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia, during the Finnish War.
- November - Swedish troops evacuate Finland. Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia.
- November - James Madison defeats Charles C. Pinckney in U.S. presidential election
- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa IV (1807-1808) to Mahmud II (1808-1839)
- December - Napoleon invades Spain
Year in topic
Births
- January 27-David Friedrich Strauss, German Theologians
- February 5 - Carl Spitzweg, painter (+ 1885)
- February 26 - Honoré Daumier, painter, illustrator, lithograph and sculptor (+ 1879)
- October 6 - King Frederick VII of Denmark
Deaths
- March 13 - King Christian VII of Denmark
- May 18 - Elijah Craig, important to the invention of bourbon whiskey
Heads of states
- Denmark
- Christian VII King of Denmark and Norway (1766-1808)
- Frederick VI King of Denmark (1808-1839), and king of Norway (1808-1814)
- France - Napoléon I Emperor of France (1804-1814)
- Ottoman Empire
- Mustafa IV Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1807-1808)
- Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
- Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)
- Spain
- Charles IV King of Spain (1788-1808)
- Joseph Bonaparte King of Spain (1808-1813)
- Russia - Alexander I Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)
- United States - Thomas Jefferson third President of the United States (1801-1809)
