Historical Events In 1808

Jun 15   Jozef Napoleon becomes king of Spain in the year 1808.   

Jun 16   Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Jun 22   Zebulon Pike reaches his peak on this day in history.   

Jun 24   In the year 1808 anna Caroline Oury, composer   

Jun 27   On this day in history everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)   

Jun 28   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican in the year 1808.   

Jul 02   In the year 1808 simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam   

Jul 02   In the year 1808 simon Fraser completes his trip down the Fraser River , BC, and lands at Musqueam   

Jul 05   Battle of Buenos Aires on this day in history.   

Jul 15   French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples in the year 1808.   

Jul 15   On this day in history henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851)   

Jul 20   Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Jul 20   On this day in history napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names   

Jul 23   Spanish forces at Bailen force a French army of 18,000 under Gen Pierre Antoine Dupont, 43, to surrender July 23 on this day in history.   

Jul 28   Charles Lucas, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 28   Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey on this day in history.   

Jul 29   Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies in the year 1808.   

Jul 31   Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 01   In the year 1808 british forces invade Portugal under Sir Arthur Wellesley, they defeat Gen Dupont August 21, but Wellesley's superiors prevent him from following up his victory   

Aug 09   In the year 1808 william Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

Aug 10   Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 13   Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81 in the year 1808.   

Aug 15   A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries on this day in history.   

Aug 17   Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain on this day in history.   

Aug 21   In the year 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.   

Aug 24   On this day in history benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

Aug 29   On this day in history hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer   

Aug 30   In the year 1808 joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83   

Sep 13   Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero on this day in history.   

Sep 15   Louis Clapisson, composer on this day in history.   

Sep 25   Richard Porson, scholar, dies in the year 1808.   

Sep 26   Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

Sep 27   On this day in history gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79   

Sep 30   Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire in the year 1808.   

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Jan 06   Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864) was born in the year 1808.   

Jan 07   In the year 1808 birth of jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894   

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist   

Jan 12   Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer was born in the year 1808.   

Jan 13   In the year 1808 birth of salmon P Chase, (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)   

Jan 19   Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 27   In the year 1808 birth of david F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life)   

Feb 04   On this day in history birth of josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)   

Jan 08   Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies in the year 1808.   

Feb 14   John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732) died on this day in history.   

Mar 09   In the year 1808 death of joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)   

Mar 13   King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749) died in the year 1808.   

Apr 25   Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66 in the year 1808.   

May 05   Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757) died in the year 1808.   

May 18   In the year 1808 jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49   

May 28   Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720) died in the year 1808.