In 1808 two military forts with trading factories were built, Fort Osage along the Missouri River in western present-day Missouri and Fort Madison along the Upper Mississippi River in eastern present-day Iowa.

The county was formed in 1808 from the western part of Buncombe County.

In November 1808, Hezekiah Roberts, Jr. obtained patents on five lots in the western end of Plymouth Township, about total.

Upon creation of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne in 1808, the canton of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val was detached from the western extremity of Aveyron and transferred to the new department.

In addition, the 1808 opening of the Skaneateles Turnpike, which connected the village to western New York, probably contributed to the favorable economic climate.

In 1808, Acting-Governor and friend Frederick Bates promoted Sibley to the position of chief factor at Fort Osage in western Missouri, near present day Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1808 he was made a state judge for the western district of New York.

It is separated from the western part of Karelia, called Finnish Karelia or historically Swedish Karelia ( before 1808 ).

Samuel Kirkland ( December 1, 1741 – February 28, 1808 ) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora peoples of present-day western New York State.

Nanda Devi () is the second highest mountain in India and the highest entirely within the country ( Kangchenjunga being on the border of India and Nepal ); owing to this geography it was the highest known mountain in the world until computations on Dhaulagiri by western surveyors in 1808.

Lewis Wetzel ( August 1763 – 1808 ) was a frontiersman and Indian fighter who roamed the hills of western Virginia and Ohio.

On April 8, 1808, Egan was appointed by Pope Pius VII as the first Bishop of the newly-erected Diocese of Philadelphia, which included the entire states of Pennsylvania and Delaware as well as the western and southern parts of New Jersey.

In 1808 the Osage moved from their homelands on the Osage River to western Missouri.

Now began the part of his travels of which a full journal has been published ( April 1808 to March 1809 ), a series of most instructive journeys in eastern and western Palestine and the wilderness of Sinai, and so on to Cairo and the Fayum.

Threatening war clouds caused the Regular Army to be reorganized in 1808 to meet the growing threat posed by the Indian nations which lived on the western boundaries of the United States.

Marie Paradis ( 1778 Chamonix-1839 ) was the first woman to reach the summit of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain of western Europe, on 14 July 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.

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.

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 1807, he undertook the editorship of the newly projected Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, of which the first part appeared in 1808, and the last not until 1830.

Plan of Fort Madison, built in 1808 to establish U. S. control over the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase ; drawn 1810.

It is sometimes called Dalton's Law after its discoverer, the English chemist John Dalton, who published it in the first part of the first volume of his " New System of Chemical Philosophy " ( 1808 ).

Dalton communicated his atomic theory to Thomson who, by consent, included an outline of it in the third edition of his System of Chemistry ( 1807 ), and Dalton gave a further account of it in the first part of the first volume of his New System of Chemical Philosophy ( 1808 ).

Napoleon reopened it in 1808 to serve as part of the University of Paris.

Thus, Cortland County was created from the southern half of Onondaga County as part of the Boston Ten Towns on April 8, 1808, and was named in honor of the Pierre Van Cortlandt family-Pierre, Sr. having been the first lieutenant governor of the state.

Finally, in 1808 the southern part of Bladen County was combined with part of Brunswick County to form Columbus County.

A part of the 1808 Osage Native American land cession, the county was settled in the early 1830s by pioneers from Kentucky and Tennessee.

The area was part of the 1808 Osage Native American land cession.

It is named for the U. S. cavalry commander Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan ( 1808 – 1887 ) of Liberty, Missouri, who played an important part in the Mexican-American War.

Harrison County was originally part of Knox County and Clark County but was separated in 1808.

Counties later formed all or in part from Clark County were: Crawford ( 1818 ), Decatur ( 1822 ), Fayette ( 1819 ), Floyd ( 1819 ), Franklin ( 1811 ), Harrison ( 1808 ), Jackson ( 1816 ), Jefferson ( 1811 ), Jennings ( 1817 ), Randolph ( 1818 ), Ripley ( 1816 ), Rush ( 1822 ), Scott ( 1820 ), Switzerland ( 1814 ), Union ( 1821 ), Washington ( 1814 ), and Wayne ( 1811 ).

Wehl was a part of Prussia until 1808, when it was joined to the Netherlands.

Union Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 23, 1808, from portions of Elizabeth Township, while the area was still part of Essex County.

The Town of Caneadea was founded in 1808 from part of the Town of Angelica.

Smithville was founded from part of the Town of Greene in 1808.

The town was formed from part of the Town of Fabius ( in Onondaga County ) when Cortland County was created in 1808.

Clarence was split off from Willink in 1804, before Niagara County was created from part of Genesee County in 1808.

Afterwards, part of Jay was used to form, in whole or part, the Towns of Keene ( 1808 ), Elizabethtown and Wilmington ( 1821 ).

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

He allied himself with the Clintonian faction of the Democratic-Republican Party, and was surrogate of Columbia County, New York from 1808 until 1813, when he was removed.

Cattaraugus County was formed in 1808, split off from Genesee County.

Chautauqua County was created by the partition of Genesee County on March 11, 1808.

In 1808, Franklin County was split off from Clinton County.

Cortland County was formed by the splitting of Onondaga County in 1808.

In 1808, Niagara County was created out of Genesee County.

In 1808, Franklin County was split off from Clinton County.

Niagara County was created from Genesee County in 1808.

In 1808, Cortland County was split off from Onondaga.

In 1808, Genesee County was further reduced in size by the splitting off of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, and Niagara Counties.

It was reduced in size in 1806 by creating Allegany County ; again in 1808 by creating Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, and Niagara Counties.

In 1808 a wagon road was laid out through what is now Clinton County.

Madison County was established on December 13, 1808 by the governor of the Mississippi Territory.

Nelson County was established in 1807 when it was separated from Amherst County, and the government actually formed in 1808.