* 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 ).

* April 23 – Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly, French writer ( b. 1808 )

* Der vierundzwanzigste Februar, 1808 ( translated into French by Jules Lacroix, Paris, 1849 )

The novelist Jules Amédée Barbey d ' Aurevilly was born there on 2 November 1808.

* April 23-Jules Amédée Barbey d ' Aurevilly, novelist ( born 1808 )

* 1723 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian ( d. 1808 )

* 1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter ( d. 1885 )

* 1808 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor ( d. 1879 )

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

* 1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, playwright, and linguist ( d. 1845 )

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

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

* 1741 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, French violinist and composer ( d. 1808 )

* 1742 – Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn ( d. 1808 )

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

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

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

* 1808 – Henry Edward Manning, English archbishop and cardinal ( d. 1892 )

* 1718 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer ( d. 1808 )

* 1808 – Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician ( d. 1864 )

* 1720 – Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer ( d. 1808 )

* 1808 – Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1873 )

* 1808 – Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin ( d. 1896 )

* 1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer ( d. 1836 )

* 1808 – David Swinson Maynard, American frontiersman and physician ( d. 1873 )

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

The university was created by the archbishop Pey Berland in 1441 and was abolished in 1793, during the French Revolution, before reappearing in 1808 with Napoleon I. Bordeaux accommodates approximately 70, 000 students on one of the largest campuses of Europe ( 235 ha ).

French forces invaded Spain in 1808, leading to the Peninsular War of 1808 – 1814.

Gun deck of the Pallas class frigate ( 1808 ) | Pallas class frigate French frigate Méduse ( 1810 ) | Méduse.

Florence was the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814.

In his Addresses to the German Nation ( 1808 ), a series of speeches delivered in Berlin under French occupation, he urged the German peoples to " have character and be German "-- entailed in his idea of Germanness was antisemitism, since he argued that " making Jews free German citizens would hurt the German nation.

The Spanish guerrilla resistance to the French invasion in 1808

Charles IV's vacillation, culminating in his failure to honour the alliance by neglecting to enforce the Continental System led to Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, invading Spain in 1808, thereby triggering Spain's War of Independence.

On September 26, 1808, a Central Junta was formed in the town of Aranjuez to coordinate the nationwide struggle against the French.

In the Palo Hincado battle ( November 7, 1808 ), all the remaining French forces were defeated by Spanish-creole insurrectionists.

This occupation of the Iberian peninsula fueled local nationalism, and soon the Spanish and Portuguese fought the French using guerilla tactics, defeating the French forces at the Battle of Bailén ( June and July 1808 ).

Britain sent a short-lived ground support force to Portugal, and French forces evacuated Portugal as defined in the Convention of Sintra following the Allied victory at Vimeiro ( 21 August 1808 ).

In 1808 Austria formed the War of the Fifth Coalition in order to break down the French Empire.

* 1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco de Goya, depicting the execution of Madrid citizens on that date by French forces during the Peninsular War

* 1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

* 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela

In 1808, the Portuguese royal family relocated to Brazil, due to the French invasion of Portugal.

Under its French name Parme, it was also created a duché grand-fief de l ' Empire for Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, the Emperor's Arch-Treasurer, on 24 April 1808 ( extinguished 1926 ).