* 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 ).

* Joseph I ( 1806 – 1808 )

* Joseph I ( 1808 – 1813 )

With Johanna ( 1780 – 1809 ), his children were Joseph ( 1806 – 1873 ), Wilhelmina ( 1808 – 1846 ) and Louis ( 1809 – 1810 ).

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac recognized in 1808 that gases always react in a certain relationship with each other.

The spark was Napoleon's invasion of Spain, after which he deposed King Ferdinand VII and, in July 1808, placed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne.

On July 20, 1808, Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Madrid and established a government by which he became King of Spain, serving as a surrogate for Napoleon.

However, the sinologist Joseph Needham states that this information comes from the Zhongdou xinfa ( 種痘心法 ) written in 1808 by Zhu Yiliang, centuries after the alleged events.

* 1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.

* 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.

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

* 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect ( d. 1808 )

603 ( 1972 ); Joseph M. Sweeney, Tournament of Scholars Over the Sources of the Civil Code of 1808, 46 TUL.

Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808, the capture of the Spanish king, Ferdinand VII, and Napoleon's attempt to put his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, on the Spanish throne, severed the major remaining links between metropolis and satellite.

In 1804, he had moved from the University of Kiel to the University of Landshut, but, on being commanded by King Maximilian Joseph to draft a penal code for Bavaria ( Strafgesetzbuch für das Königreich Bayern ), in 1805 he moved to Munich where he was given a high appointment in the Ministry of Justice and was ennobled in 1808.

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

Avogadro developed this hypothesis after Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac had published in 1808 his law on volumes ( and combining gases ).

Corte was the birthplace of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), the eldest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ).

Joseph was then made King of Spain in August 1808, soon after the French invasion.

In 1808, Emperor Napoleon I of France forced King Charles IV of Spain and his son Ferdinand to abdicate and installed his brother, Joseph Bonaparte on the throne.

Greenwood, built by Col. Joseph Martin, son of Joseph Martin ( general ) | General Joseph Martin, namesake of Martinsville, Virginia | Martinsville, at Axton, Henry County, 1808 – 1810

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

#** Paul Marie Bonaparte ( 1808 – 1827 )

#* Charles Louis Napoléon ( III ) Bonaparte ( 1808 – 1873 ) Emperor, married Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick

In 1808, soon after the death of his mother, he was appointed superintendent of the private library of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, into which Hesse-Kassel had been incorporated by Napoleon.

# Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, ( 1808 – 73 ).

Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte ( 7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844 ) was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily ( 1806 – 1808 ), and later King of Spain ( 1808 – 1813, as José I ).

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873 ) was the first President of the French Republic and, as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire.

In 1808, Joachim Murat became the King of Naples, after Joseph Bonaparte became King of Spain.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte forced Ferdinand VII to abdicate in 1808 and the Bourbons became a focus of popular resistance against French rule.

* 1808 – 1809 Napoléon Bonaparte