* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1808 – Hamilton Fish, American politician ( d. 1893 )

* Haliotis laevigata Donovan, 1808 – the Smooth Australian abalone or greenlip abalone

* Haliotis spadicea Donovan, 1808 – the Blood-spotted abalone

* 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.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

In European Spain, or just " the Peninsula " in the jargon of the Spains, after economic and human ravages of the Napoleonic Invasion ( 1808 ) and the War of Liberation ( 1808 – 1814 ) there ensued the aforementioned Latinamerican conflicts, in addition to the Carlist wars, the liberal-conservative wars, and the bleeding of people and resources into Latin America.

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain after the 1808 – 1874 crisis.

* 1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria ( d. 1892 )

* 1808 – William W. Chapman, American politician ( d. 1892 )

* 1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown ( now Louisville ) by Pope Pius VII.

* 1875 – Karl Andree, German geographer ( b. 1808 )

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

In the Karang Intan Agreement during the reign of Prince Nata Dilaga ( Susuhunan Nata Alam ) ( 1808 – 1825 ), the Banjar Kingdom gave up its territories to the Dutch Indies which included Bulungan, Kutai, Pasir, Pagatan and Kotawaringin.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

* 1808 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary ( b. 1721 )

* February 8 – David Friedrich Strauss, German theologian ( b. 1808 )

* April 11 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary ( d. 1808 )

After his mother's death, he agreed to living with and being adopted in 1808 by David Porter, a naval officer whose father had been friends with his father.

* David Stout Manners ( 1808 – 84 ), Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1852 to 1857.

The town was laid out in 1809 on a tract of land that David Parish had purchased from J. D. Le Ray de Chaumont in 1808.

Wooster was established in 1808 by John Bever, William Henry, and Joseph Larwill, and named after David Wooster, a general in the American Revolutionary War .< ref >" Wooster.

These writings are: " Milhamot HaShem ," defending Alfasi against the criticisms of Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona ( published with the " Alfasi ," Venice, 1552 ; frequently reprinted ; separate edition, Berlin, 1759 ); " Sefer ha-Zekhut ," in defense of Alfasi against the criticisms of Abraham ben David ( RABaD ; printed with Abraham Meldola's " Shiv ' ah ' Enayim ," Leghorn, 1745 ; under the title " Machaseh u-Magen ," Venice, 1808 ); " Hassagot " ( Constantinople, 1510 ; frequently reprinted ), in defense of Simeon Kayyara against the criticisms of Maimonides ' " Sefer ha-Mitzwoth " ( Book of Precepts ).

Facsimile of 1808 " A Dissertation of the Pelagian Heresy and the Refutation of it al Llandewi Brevi by St David " has just been printed in Carmarthen on the same street as the original.

Moravian missionary David Zeisberger ( 1721 – 1808 ) gave this account of the naming: " In the Indian tongue the name of this river was Mechmenawungihilla ( alternatively spelled Menawngihella ), which signifies a high bank, which is ever washed out and therefore collapses.

David Thomas ( DR ), until February 17, 1808

David Thompson, working for the Montreal-based North West Company, explored much of the region beginning in 1807, with his friend and colleague Simon Fraser following the Fraser River to its mouth in 1808, attempting to ascertain whether or not it was the Columbia, as had been theorized about it in its northern reaches through New Caledonia, where it was known by its Dakleh name as the " Tacoutche Tesse ".

On 22 October 1806 in London he married Hannah Barent-Cohen ( 1783 – 1850 ), daughter of Levi Barent-Cohen ( 1747 – 1808 ) and wife Lydia Diamantschleifer and paternal granddaughter of Barent Cohen and wife, whose other son Salomon David Barent-Cohen ( d. 1807 ) married Sara Brandes, great-grandparents of Karl Marx.

* David Friedrich Strauß, theologian, philosopher, writer ( 1808 – 1874 )

David Stone ( February 17, 1770October 7, 1818 ) was the 15th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1808 to 1810.

John Scott Russell was born John Russell on 9 May 1808 in Parkhead, Glasgow, the son of David Russell and Agnes Clark Scott.

In 1802, Colonel David Humphreys, United States Ambassador to Spain, introduced the Vermont strain into North America with an importation of 21 rams and 70 ewes from Portugal and a further importation of 100 Infantado Merinos in 1808.

* David Gallup ( 1808 – 1882 ), Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut

* David Friedrich Strauß ( 1808 – 1874 ), theologian and writer

In late spring 1808, David Porter Sr. suffered sunstroke, and Farragut took him into his home, where his wife Elizabeth cared for him.

* David Wilson ( Calcutta ) ( 1808 – 1880 ), hotelier

A. Dunbar-Brander ( Conservator of Forests in the Central Provinces ), Sir Walter Elliot ( 1803 – 1887 ), Henry Thomas Colebrooke ( 1765 – 1837 ), Charles McCann ( 1899 – 1980 ), Hugh Falconer ( 1808 – 1865 ), Philip Furley Fyson ( 1877 – 1947 ), Lt. Col. Heber Drury, William Griffith ( 1810 – 1845 ), Sir David Prain ( 1857 – 1944 ), J. F. Duthie, P. D. Stracey, Richard Strachey ( 1817 – 1908 ), Thomas Thomson ( 1817 – 1878 ), J. E. Winterbottom, W. Moorcroft and J. F.

David Hughson writing in 1808 described Colston: '

John Murray III ( 1808 – 1892 ) continued the business and published Charles Eastlake's first English translation of Goethe's Theory of Colours ( 1840 ), David Livingstone's Missionary Travels ( 1857 ), and Charles Darwin's Origin of Species ( 1859 ).

* 1808 – Nathan Kelley, American architect, active mainly in Ohio, ( d. 1871 )

With the permission of President Thomas Jefferson, Astor established the American Fur Company on April 6, 1808.

* 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician, President of the Confederate States of America ( d. 1889 )

* 1808 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1887 )

* 1808 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer ( d. 1864 )

* 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher ( d. 1887 )

Jefferson Finis Davis ( June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889 ) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history.

Regardless, Asbury remained the leading bishop of early American Methodism and did not share his " appointing " authority until Bishop McKendree was elected in 1808.

* 1808 – John Taylor, American religious figure ( d. 1887 )

* 1732 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania ( d. 1808 )

Solomon Northup ( July 1808 – c. 1864-1875 ) was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs, New York.

* Mitch Kachun, Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808 – 1915 ( 2003 )

* May 14 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and abolitionist ( b. 1808 )

* July 25 – John Taylor, American religious leader ( b. 1808 )

* August 8 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier ( b. 1808 )

* April 4 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer ( b. 1808 )

* May 10 – Henry Bennett, American politician ( b. 1808 )

* September 9 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician ( d. 1808 )

* The United States, while still emerging from the American Revolution and wary of the economic and military might of Great Britain, came close to complete autarky in 1808 when President Jefferson declared a self-imposed embargo on international shipping.

Between 1808 and 1810, he held a personal friendship with Latin American Independence Precursor Francisco de Miranda and paid visits to Miranda's Grafton Way house in London.