Today in History for Year 1808

Months in Year 1808: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 43 of 43

Jan 1st - African Benevolent Society (education) forms
Jan 1st - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
Jan 1st - Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
Jan 10th - Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
Jan 12th - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
Jan 19th - Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
Jan 26th - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
Feb 11th - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Mar 2nd - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
Mar 6th - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
Mar 7th - Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
Mar 23rd - Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
Mar 26th - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
Mar 27th - Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
Mar 31st - French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
Apr 6th - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
Apr 8th - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore was promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.
Apr 9th - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
Apr 13th - William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance
Apr 17th - Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships
Apr 30th - 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
May 2nd - Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
May 3rd - Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
May 3rd - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
May 3rd - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
May 30th - Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
Jun 1st - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
Jun 5th - -6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians
Jun 15th - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
Jun 22nd - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
Jul 2nd - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
Jul 5th - Battle of Buenos Aires
Jul 15th - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples
Jul 20th - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
Jul 28th - Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
Aug 17th - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1st Duke of Wellington & British Prime Minister Arthur Wellesley Aug 21st - 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.
Sep 13th - 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 30th - Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire
Oct 17th - Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
Oct 31st - Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain
Nov 10th - Osage Treaty signed
Dec 7th - James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 81 of 81

Jan 6th - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
Jan 7th - Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Jan 11th - Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist
Jan 12th - Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer
Jan 13th - Salmon P Chase, (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)
Jan 19th - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
Jan 27th - David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life)
Feb 4th - Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)
Feb 5th - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
Feb 9th - Francesco Gomez da Rocha, composer
Feb 20th - Daumier, Marseilles France, artist
Feb 25th - James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Feb 26th - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
Feb 26th - Nathan Kelley, American architect, active mainly in Ohio, (d.1871)
Mar 12th - Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
Mar 14th - Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Mar 15th - Gaetano Gaspari, composer
Mar 23rd - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook)
Mar 24th - Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
Mar 25th - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes)
Apr 10th - Auguste Franchomme, composer
Apr 13th - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1896)
Apr 16th - Caleb Blood Smith, Secy Int (Union), died in 1864
Apr 20th - Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
Apr 26th - Martha Finley, children's book author
Apr 29th - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883]
May 15th - Gottfried Herrmann, composer
May 15th - Michael William Balfe, composer
May 17th - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer
May 19th - Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
May 22nd - G de Nerval, writer
May 30th - Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
Jun 3rd - Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
Jun 10th - Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer (Kaiser compass-card)
Jun 11th - Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
Jun 17th - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
Jun 20th - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
Jun 24th - Anna Caroline Oury, composer
Jun 27th - Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)
Jun 28th - Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican
Jul 9th - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887)
Jul 15th - Henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851)
Jul 15th - Henry Edward Manning, cardinal/archbishop (Westminster)
Jul 21st - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (d. 1864)
Jul 28th - Charles Lucas, composer
Jul 31st - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer
Aug 3rd - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
Aug 9th - William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 10th - Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
Aug 24th - Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Aug 24th - Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Aug 29th - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer
Aug 30th - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
Sep 6th - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
Sep 15th - Louis Clapisson, composer
Sep 30th - Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch vicar (Folies-old Calvinist communities)
Oct 1st - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer
Oct 5th - Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Oct 5th - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Geology of Netherlands)
Oct 6th - Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63)
Oct 12th - John Liptrot Hatton, composer
Oct 13th - Henry Haywood Bell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1868
Oct 20th - Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist (Globus)
Oct 24th - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer
Nov 1st - John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
Nov 2nd - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
Nov 17th - Alberich Zwyssig, composer
Nov 18th - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
Nov 22nd - Thomas Cook, founder (Cook travel bureau)
Nov 27th - Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
Dec 4th - Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horatius)
Dec 6th - Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)
Dec 6th - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer
Dec 7th - Hugh McCulloch, US Secy of Treasury
Dec 20th - Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887
Dec 22nd - Thomas Cook, England, tour director (Thomas Cook & Son)
Dec 23rd - Thomas Turner, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
Dec 25th - Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
Dec 26th - Albert Grisar, composer
Dec 29th - Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
Dec 29th - Gyorgy Apponyi, Hungarian Parliament member

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

Jan 8th - Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies
Feb 14th - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
Mar 9th - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
Mar 13th - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
Apr 25th - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66
May 5th - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
May 18th - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49
May 18th - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)
May 28th - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
Jun 11th - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83
Jun 16th - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
Jul 20th - Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66
Jul 29th - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies
Aug 13th - Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81
Aug 30th - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83
Sep 3rd - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
Sep 5th - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
Sep 6th - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
Sep 13th - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
Sep 17th - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
Sep 25th - Richard Porson, scholar, dies
Sep 26th - Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51
Sep 27th - Gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79
Nov 10th - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
Nov 16th - Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
Nov 17th - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
Dec 1st - Anton Fischer, composer, dies at 30