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

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

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

Design reform began with the organisers of the Exhibition itself, Henry Cole ( 1808 – 1882 ), Owen Jones ( 1809 – 1874 ), Matthew Digby Wyatt ( 1820 – 1877 ) and Richard Redgrave ( 1804 – 1888 ).

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* Henry Edward Manning ( 1808 – 1892 ), English Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal

After Porson's death ( 1808 ) Dobree was commissioned with James Henry Monk and Charles James Blomfield to edit his literary remains, which had been bequeathed to Trinity College.

In 1807 The Works of Henry Mackenzie were published surreptitiously, and he then himself superintended the publication of his Works ( 8 vols., 1808 ).

Portrait, oil on canvas, of John Home ( 1722 – 1808 ) by Sir Henry Raeburn ( 1756 – 1823 ), circa 1795 – 1800

Upon his return to St. Louis in August 1808, Lisa established the Missouri Fur Company ( sometimes referred to as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company ), a joint venture with Jean Pierre Chouteau, Pierre Chouteau, Jr., William Clark, Andrew Henry, and other prominent St. Louis fur traders.

He travelled in Europe with Lord William Henry Lyttleton Westcote ( 1724 – 1808 ).

The two men, who were the two senior generals in the United States Army after the effective retirement of Major General Henry Dearborn on 6 July 1813, had been feuding with each other since 1808.

* Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Baronet ( 1722 – 1808 )

Charles Henry Cooper ( 20 March 1808 – 21 March 1866 ) was an English antiquarian.

William Barton Rogers had three brothers: James Blythe Rogers ( 1802 – 1852 ), Henry Darwin Rogers ( 1808 – 1866 ), and Robert Empie Rogers ( 1813 – 1884 ).

In 1808, Henry Bell bought the public baths and hotel, which his wife superintended while he continued his interest in early steamboats such as the nearby Charlotte Dundas and the North River Steamboat which Robert Fulton had just introduced at New York City.

** George Henry Scott, Lord Scott of Whitchester ( 1798 – 1808 ), eldest son of the 4th Duke, died young

* William Henry Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ( 1724 – 1808 )

* Francis Theophilus Henry Hastings, 13th Earl of Huntingdon ( 1808 – 1875 )

* John William Henry Dalrymple, 7th Earl of Stair ( 1784 – 1840 ); most notable for having his 1808 marriage to Lady Laura Manners ended by divorce in 1809 annulled when a previous marriage contract in 1804 to another woman was revealed.

* William Henry Allen ( academician ) ( 1808 – 1882 ), American professor

* Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage ( 1761 – 1808 )

The first step in 1808 was the relaying of the Wylam tramway with cast iron plates, until then a simple timber-way.

* August 25 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808, a Beechcraft Model 99, crashes at Auburn, Maine, while on final approach to Auburn / Lewiston Municipal Airport, killing all eight people on board ; among them is 13-year-old Samantha Smith, an American school girl who had become famous as a " Goodwill Ambassador " to the Soviet Union and who had been cast on the television show Lime Street.

The back 6 were cast in 1788 with two new trebles and two bells recast in 1808.

John " Iron-Mad " Wilkinson ( 1728 – 1808 ) was an English industrialist who pioneered the use and manufacture of cast iron and cast-iron goods in the Industrial Revolution.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

1808 ) Erläuterung der Sternkunde, an introductory book on the constellations and their tales, which was reprinted more than ten times

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.

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.