* 1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto ( performed by Beethoven himself ) and Choral Fantasy ( with Beethoven at the piano ).

Moreover, Friedrich Schlegel's book, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier ( On the Speech and Wisdom of the Indians, Heidelberg, 1808 ), which had just begun to exert a powerful influence on the minds of German philosophers and historians, did not fail to stimulate Bopp's interest in the sacred language of the Hindus.

He was generally known as " der Offenbacher ", after his native town, Offenbach am Main, and in 1808 he officially adopted Offenbach as a surname.

; J Melber's Dio in Teubner series ; C Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studium der alten Geschichte ( 1895 ); W Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur ( 1808 ).

In 1802 he went to Paris, where he had a circle including Heinrich Christoph Kolbe and edited the review Europa ( 1803 ), lectured on philosophy and carried on Oriental studies, some results of which he embodied in an epoch-making book, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier ( On the Language and Wisdom of India ) ( 1808 ).

* Hauptpunkte der Metaphysik ( 1808 )

* Versuch einer Entwickelung der Folgen der Kreuzzüge für Europa ( Göttingen, 1808 ; French trans., Paris, 1808 ), a prize essay of the Institute of France.

During this period he had made himself known as a writer by the publication of his Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste, in 5 volumes ( 1798 – 1808 ).

One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, the symphony was first performed in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four hour concert called the Musikalische Akademie.

Both symphonies were premiered in a long and under-rehearsed concert in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, on 22 December 1808.

* Geschichte der gefürsteten Grafschaft Tirol ( 2 vols., Tübingen, 1806 – 1808 );

However, the public premiere was not until 22 December 1808 in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien.

In 1808 he was awarded a prize at the Academy of Saint Petersburg for his monography Von der Natur und den Eigenschaften des Lichts ( nature and characteristics of light ).

Beside his works on Plato, he wrote, on aesthetics, System der Kunstlehre ( 1805 ) and Grundriss der Aesthetik ( 1807 ); on the history of philosophy, Grundlinien der Philosophie ( 1807, republished 1809, but soon forgotten ), Grundriss einer Geschichte der Philosophie ( 1807 and 1825 ), and Hauptmomente der Geschichte der Philosophie ( 1829 ); in philology, Grundlinien der Philologie ( 1808 ), and Grundlinien der Grammatik, Hermeneutik und Kritik ( 1808 ).

Dürer worked with pen on the marginal images for an edition of the Emperor's printed Prayer-Book ; these were quite unknown until facsimiles were published in 1808 as part of the first book published in lithography.

To the Friends of Literature in the United States, Webster's prospectus ( book ) | prospectus for his first dictionary of the English language, 1807 – 1808

In the second edition of his book on number theory ( 1808 ) he then made a more precise conjecture, with A = 1 and B = − 1. 08366.

In Japan, the strait is named after Mamiya Rinzō, who traveled to the strait in 1808 whereof the name was introduced by Philipp Franz von Siebold in his book Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan ( 1832 – 54 ).

The Hassidic Rabbi Nachman of Breslov is reported to have written a book which he himself burned in 1808.

She wrote a book about her visit to the Soviet Union and co-starred in the television series Lime Street, before her death at the age of 13 in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash.

She was again at Coppet in the summer of 1808 ( in which year Constant broke with her, subsequently marrying Charlotte von Hardenberg ) and set to work at her book, De l ' Allemagne.

The book was published in three editions: the first in 1805 followed by two more volumes in 1808.

He took up writing, and his first book was published in 1808.

In 1808, Walter Scott was asked to complete the book by his publisher John Murray.

Front page of his 1808 book on Negro literature.

When she was released she became a household servant for publisher Robert S. Kirby who included her tale in his book Wonderful Museum, and ( following her death on 4 February 1808 ) in The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Anne Talbot ( 1809 ).

He also published a book in 1808 about the progress of the abolition of the slave trade.

He also translated and illustrated Auenbrugger's book in 1808, which helped to make Auenbrugger's work on percussion better known.

Dick ( 1808 – 1893 ) wrote short stories which sold tens of thousands of copies in book form.

Willan's 1808 book, On Cutaneous Diseases is a landmark in the history of dermatology and in medical illustration and contains the first use of the word " lupus " to describe cutaneous tuberculosis.

After his return to the United Kingdom in 1808, he still took an active part in matters connected with India, and by his book entitled Colonial Ecclesiastical Establishment ( London, 1813 ), he assisted in settling the controversy of 1813, which eventually ended in the establishment of an Anglican Indian episcopate in 1878 in the Travancore-Cochin states.

Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy ( 1808 ), one of the earliest scientific works on atomic theory

The date on the title page of 1804 for Milton is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was printed c. 1808.

In 1808 Davy observed that electric current sent through a solution of borates produced a brown precipitate on one of the electrodes.

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 ).

Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.

( The latter prohibition took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date on which Congress had the power to do so under Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.

The wall behind the stone was a temporary addition to support the arch above it, which had been weakened after the damage in the 1808 fire ; the wall blocks the view of the rotunda, sits on top of the graves of four 12th century kings, and is no longer structurally necessary.

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.

After getting established, on April 21, 1762, Boudinot married Hannah Stockton ( 1736 – 1808 ), Richard's younger sister.

* 1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.

Spain temporarily broke off from the Continental System, and Napoleon – aggravated with the Bourbon kings of Spain – invaded Spain in 1808 and deposed Ferdinand VII, who had been on the throne only forty-eight days after his father's abdication in March 1808.

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

The Federalist-controlled Massachusetts Legislature chose a replacement for Adams on June 3, 1808, several months early.

Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky, the last child of ten of Jane ( née Cook ) and Samuel Emory Davis.

The first textbook on library science was published 1808 by Martin Schrettinger.

Official persecution ended in 1787 ; a faculty of Protestant theology was established at Montauban in 1808, and the Lausanne seminary was finally closed on 18 April 1812.

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 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.

Anastrepta orcadensis, a liverwort also known as Orkney Notchwort, was first discovered on Ward Hill by William Jackson Hooker in 1808.

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.