1808

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Template:C19YearInTopicX 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).

1 Events of 1808
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December

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.
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

April 6 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
April 13- Antonio Meucci is born
April 16 - Troops under colonel Carl von Döbeln clash with Russian troops in Pyhäjoki, Finland
May 2 - Peninsular War: The people of Madrid uprise against the French troops.
May 3:
- The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia, during the Finnish War.
- Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who uprose on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
June 12 - Landing of Swedish troops to Ala-Lemu fails
June 19 - Second landing of Swedish troops fails in Ala-Lemu
June 22 - French General Dupont surrenders to Spanish irregular forces following the Battle of Bailén.