The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

From 1803 to 1808 he was editor of Annual Review.

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

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

" Barium was identified as a new element in 1774, but not reduced to a metal until 1808, shortly after electrolytic isolation techniques became available.

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 ).

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.

By the early 19th century, Kanem-Bornu was clearly an empire in decline, and in 1808 Fulani warriors conquered Ngazargamu.

The Spanish Constitution of 1812, and the legislation passed by the Cádiz Cortes after it was set up in 1808, created a number of liberal political and commercial policies, which were welcomed in Cuba but also curtailed a number of previous political and commercial liberties.

It was not isolated until 1808 in England when Sir Humphry Davy electrolyzed a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide.

Clausewitz was held prisoner in France from 1807 to 1808.

In 1808, Concord was named the official seat of state government.

A census was taken in the Ottoman Empire 1831-38 by Sultan Mahmud II ( 1808 – 1839 ) as a part of the reform movement Tanzimat.

In Denmark a Danish newspaper claims that the first attested Christmas tree was lit in 1808 by countess Wilhemine of Holsteinborg.

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 regiment was established in 1808 by the Prince Regent and future king of Portugal, John VI, with the duty of protecting the Portuguese royal family, which had sought refuge in Brazil during the Napoleonic wars.

" One of Lenin's challenges was distancing materialism, as a viable philosophical outlook, from the " vulgar materialism " expressed in the statement " the brain secretes thought in the same way as the liver secretes bile " ( attributed to 18th c. physician Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1757 – 1808 ); " metaphysical materialism " ( matter composed of immutable particles ); and 19th-century " mechanical materialism " ( matter as random molecules interacting per the laws of mechanics ).

He was promoted to an Officier in 1808.

The term was introduced by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier ( 1808 – 1864 ).

The German-language Conversations-Lexikon was published at Leipzig from 1796 to 1808, in 6 volumes.

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.

Ownership was in question and legislation was passed for acquisition by condemnation in 1807 and then ceded to the United States in 1808.

From 1808 until 1814 it was a federal arsenal.

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.

In 1808, Jacob was appointed court librarian to the King of Westphalia, and went on to become librarian in Kassel.

He was appointed as the Constable of France in 1808, a strictly honorary title.

Welcker returned to Giessen in 1808, and resuming his school-teaching and university lectures was in the following year appointed the first professor of Greek literature and archaeology at that or any German university.

On December 1, 1808 he was appointed the first Russian Governor-General of Finland with the title of count, but was so unpopular that he had to resign his post the following year.

In 1802, William Fullarton ( 1754 – 1808 ) was appointed as the Senior Member of a commission to govern the island, Samuel Hood became the second member, and Picton himself the junior.

In 1791, Chew was appointed by Pennsylvania ’ s first Governor and the former President of the Continental Congress, Thomas Mifflin, to preside as the President over Pennsylvania's first High Court of Errors and Appeals, a position which he retired from in 1808.

On April 8, 1808, Concanen was appointed the first Bishop of the newly-erected Diocese of New York by Pope Pius VII.

He returned to England in 1807 and was appointed first lieutenant of Porpoise, joining her in 1808.

The acumen displayed in his Irish pamphlet led Spencer Perceval to recommend him in 1808 to Sir Arthur Wellesley, who had just been appointed to the command of the British forces in the Iberian Peninsula, as his deputy in the office of chief secretary for Ireland.

In 1803, he was unanimously chosen Greek Professor of the University, Cambridge ; and a short time before his death, which happened in 1808, he was appointed principal librarian of the London Institution.

In 1808 he was appointed the first British envoy to the court of Kabul, Afghanistan with the object of securing a friendly alliance with the Afghans against Napoleon's planned advance on India.

Shortly after 1808, Lawson was appointed aide-de-camp to George Johnston and was granted 500 acres ( 2 km² ) at Prospect, which he named Veteran Hall.

In September 1808 John Bonnyman, a stonemason, had to have a finger amputated following an accident with the beam crane on the Rock ; as recompense for this mishap he was later appointed one of the first lighthouse keepers.

He was created Prince of the Empire in 1805, appointed Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves on 15 March 1806 and held this title until 1 August 1808, when he was named King of Naples and Sicily.

He was offered a position as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1808, which he turned down ; he accepted the same offer in 1816, receiving the customary knighthood and being appointed a Serjeant-at-Law.

In 1808 – 1809 he was with Marmont in Dalmatia, and at the close of 1809 he was appointed to a command in the army of Portugal under Masséna.

In 1808 he was appointed tutor to the royal princes, in 1809 councillor of state in the department of religion, and in 1810 tutor of the crown prince ( afterwards Frederick William IV of Prussia ), on whose sensitive and dreamy nature he was to exercise a powerful but far from wholesome influence.

Bransfield was rated as an able seaman in 1805 and was appointed to the 1st rate ship of the line ( 110 guns ) Royal Sovereign ( which had taken part in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 ) in 1806 as an able seaman, then 2nd master's mate in 1808, midshipman in 1808, clerk in 1809 and midshipman again in 1811.

In 1808 he was appointed assistant keeper of the university library and some years afterwards professor of literary history.

He was made a member of the privy council in 1805 ; in 1807 he was appointed plenipotentiary at Berlin, but the mission was abandoned, and Frere was again sent to Spain in 1808 as plenipotentiary to the Central Junta.

After a short time working as medics in Bamberg, he was appointed by king Maximilian I. Joseph from Bavaria as student of zoology (" Eleve ") in Munich at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich in 1808.

In 1808 Beugnot, who had meanwhile been appointed administrator of the Grand Duchy of Berg-Cleves, received the cross of an Officier de la Légion d ' honneur with the title of count.