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 in the year 1808.   

Jun 24   On this day in history anna Caroline Oury, composer   

Jun 27   In the year 1808 everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)   

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

Jul 02   Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1808.   

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

Jul 15   In the year 1808 henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851)   

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

Jul 20   Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names on this day in history.   

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

Jul 28   Charles Lucas, composer in the year 1808.   

Jul 28   Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey in the year 1808.   

Jul 29   Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies on this day in history.   

Jul 31   In the year 1808 frederick Nichols Crouch, composer   

Aug 01   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 on this day in history.   

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

Aug 10   Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer in the year 1808.   

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

Aug 15   In the year 1808 a British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries   

Aug 17   On this day in history napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain   

Aug 21   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 in the year 1808.   

Aug 24   Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

Aug 29   In the year 1808 hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer   

Aug 30   Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Sep 13   On this day in history 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.   

Sep 15   On this day in history louis Clapisson, composer   

Sep 25   In the year 1808 richard Porson, scholar, dies   

Sep 26   On this day in history pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51   

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

Sep 30   On this day in history covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire   

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Jan 06   Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 07   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of salmon P Chase, (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)   

Jan 19   Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887) was born in the year 1808.   

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   In the year 1808 death of john Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)   

Mar 09   On this day in history death of joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)   

Mar 13   On this day in history death of king Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)   

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

May 05   In the year 1808 death of pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)   

May 18   Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49 in the year 1808.   

May 28   On this day in history death of richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)