Beethoven wrote the two piano trios while spending the summer of 1808 in Heiligenstadt, Vienna, where he had completed his Symphony No. 5 the previous summer.

The two key historical figures in the history of the shift from street-fighting to the modern sport of savate are Michel Casseux ( also known as le Pisseux ( 1794 – 1869 ), a French pharmacist, and Charles Lecour ( 1808 – 1894 ).

At the Congress of Erfurt ( September – October 1808 ), Napoleon and Alexander agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War of 1808 – 09 and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the Gulf of Bothnia.

As his envoi of 1808 Ingres sent Oedipus and the Sphinx and The Valpinçon Bather ( both now in the Louvre ), hoping by these two paintings to demonstrate his mastery of the male and female nude, but they were poorly received.

In 1808 he became acquainted with Walter Savage Landor, whose early work he had admired, and the two developed mutual admiration of each other's work and became close friends.

After a short trip to Italy with Gay-Lussac for the purpose of investigating the law of magnetic declination and a sojourn of two and a half years in his native city, he finally, in the spring of 1808, settled in Paris with the purpose of securing the scientific cooperation required for bringing his great work through the press.

In August 1808 they agreed to pay £ 1, 000 on account, and two years later they consented to a payment of just over £ 17, 000.

The final quarter jointly owned by two Bloomington brothers, Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 25 February 1878 ) and Kersey H. Fell ( 1 May 1815 – 1 May 1893 ) The five were a distinguished group of men and all had links to the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad.

Because in Illinois at that time it was illegal for railroads or their officials to establish new towns, much of the land was then transferred to two McLean County real estate developers Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 22 February 1887 ) and Charles W. Holder ( 29 September 1819-30 April 1900 ).

The mine was located on two lots of about, patented to Ellen Wadhams in 1808 by virtue of the claim of her late husband Moses Wadhams.

The room was initially created as a library in 1808 from the upper part of the earlier kitchen which had originally risen two stories.

In 1808, two Frenchmen are said to have fought in balloons over Paris, each attempting to shoot and puncture the other's balloon ; one duellist is said to have been shot down and killed with his second.

Der Rhein and Patmos, two of the longest and most densely charged of the hymns, appeared in a poetic calendar in 1808.

In the Annual Review for 1808 two articles of his are traced — a " Review of Fox's History ," and an article on " Bentham's Law Reforms ," probably his first published notice of Bentham.

Warburton's works were edited ( 7 vols., 1788 ) by Richard Hurd with a biographical preface, and the correspondence between the two friends — an important contribution to the literary history of the period — was edited by Samuel Parr in 1808.

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

He was the author of two text-books on them — one an Elementary Treatise on Quaternions ( 1867 ), written with the advice of Hamilton, though not published till after his death, and the other an Introduction to Quaternions ( 1873 ), in which he was aided by Philip Kelland ( 1808 – 1879 ), one of his teachers at Edinburgh.

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.

The first was a two volume work that appeared in 1804 entitled A Practical Essay on the Analysis of Minerals, which was reissued in 1808 as A Manual of Analytical Mineralogy.

* A Practical Essay on the Analysis of Minerals, London 1804 ; Reprint Philadelphia 1809 ; and a new edition expanded to two volumes in 1808 with the title A Manual of Analytical Mineralogy

* Extension of the Bank to the north-west, the exterior wall was extended around the junction of Lothbury and Princes Street, forming the ' Tivoli Corner ' which is based on the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli that Soane had visited and much admired, halfway down Princes street he created the Doric Vestibule as a minor entrance to the building and within two new courtyards that were surrounded by the rooms he built in 1790 and new rooms including printing offices for banknotes, the £ 5 Note Office and new offices for the Accountants, the Bullion Office off the Lothbury Court ( 1800 – 1808 ).

* Il rivale di se stesso, opera in two acts ( Milan 1808 )

* 1883 – Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza ' iri, Algerian politician and military leader ( b. 1808 )

* The United States, while still emerging from the American Revolution and wary of the economic and military might of Great Britain, came close to complete autarky in 1808 when President Jefferson declared a self-imposed embargo on international shipping.

In 1808, Spanish Captain Francisco Amangual commanded a military expedition from San Antonio to Santa Fe and mapped a road, which passed through what is now Kimble County.

Austrian military preparations were accelerated in 1808 and early 1809, with operations set to occur on several war theatres, including the main one in Bavaria and sideshows in Italy, Dalmatia, Westphalia, Tyrol and Poland.

Governor-General of Finland (); was the military commander and the highest administrator of Finland sporadically under Swedish rule in the 17th and 18th centuries and continuously in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland between 1808 and 1917.

In the Rum Rebellion of 1808, the Corps, working closely with the newly established wool trader John Macarthur, staged the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, deposing Governor William Bligh and instigating a brief period of military rule in the colony prior to the arrival from Britain of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810.

Abd El-Kader ibn Muhieddine ( 6 September 1808 near Mascara – 26 May 1883 Damascus ), ( ) known as or ) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-19th century, for which he is seen by some Algerians as the " modern Jugurtha " and a national hero.

With the war with France and conflict with the United States intensifying, London abruptly replaced Wentworth in 1808 with a military governor, General George Prevost.

Napoleon I founded the military academy for infantry and cavalry officers in 1808.

Warszawskiego ), while Napoleon, not yet quite trusting him, left the supreme military command in Davout's hands until summer of 1808.

The War Ministry was established on 25 December 1808, replacing the old military institutions.

He distinguished himself at the Battle of Maida, and soon afterwards was brought under the notice of Sir John Moore, who obtained a majority for him in January 1808 and made him his military secretary.

It was built between 1806 and 1808 to commemorate Napoleon's military victories of the previous year.

Then participated in various military actions against revolutionary France, and was already a lieutenant colonel in the time of Spain's national war against Napoleon's invasion ( 1808 ). He participated in the defense of Zaragoza next to the Colonel Palafox ( 1808-1809 ).

In 1808 he obtained a post in the military college, Great Marlow, and three years later he was appointed professor of drawing in the naval college, Portsmouth, where he had ample opportunities for the study of his favourite marine subjects.

* Carl Henrik Gyllenhaal ( 1788 – 1857 ), a military officer who participated in the Finnish war of 1808 – 1809, was later Governor of Blekinge County and Skaraborg County, Privy Councilor, and finally Director General of the Swedish customs.

Fort Madison was constructed in 1808 to control trade along the Mississippi, and to prevent the reoccupation of the area by the British ; Fort Madison was defeated in 1813 by British-allied Indians during the War of 1812 and was the site of Iowa's only true military battle.

* Carl Pontus Gahn, ennobled with the name Gahn af Colquhoun ( 1759-1825 ), military officer who participated in the war in Finland in 1788-1789, the campaign in Norway in 1808 and the invasion of Norway in 1814.

In a short period ( between 1808 and 1810 ), the government founded the Royal Naval Academy and the Royal Military Academy ( both military schools ), the Biblioteca Nacional, the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, the Medico-Chirurgical School of Bahia, currently known as Faculdade de Medicina under harbour of Universidade Federal da Bahia and the Medico-Chirurgical School of Rio de Janeiro ( Faculdade de Medicina of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ).

Only in the beginning of the nineteenth century did its colonization begin when in 1808 the Portuguese government created military divisions in the region.

Rum was so popular, and official currency in such short supply, that for a time it became a semi-official currency ( see Rum corps ) and even led to a short-lived military coup, the Rum rebellion in 1808.

In 1808, he served on the Court of Inquiry, ordered by President Madison, held at Morin's Tavern in Philadelphia, investigating General James Wilkinson for receiving a pension from the Spanish government while serving in the United States military.

As the celebrations in honor of Scott's military career continued across Kentucky, he began to consider the possibility of running for governor in 1808.

On 26 January 1808, there was a military rebellion against Governor Bligh led by John Macarthur.