* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1808 – Hamilton Fish, American politician ( d. 1893 )

* Haliotis laevigata Donovan, 1808 – the Smooth Australian abalone or greenlip abalone

* Haliotis spadicea Donovan, 1808 – the Blood-spotted abalone

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

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

In European Spain, or just " the Peninsula " in the jargon of the Spains, after economic and human ravages of the Napoleonic Invasion ( 1808 ) and the War of Liberation ( 1808 – 1814 ) there ensued the aforementioned Latinamerican conflicts, in addition to the Carlist wars, the liberal-conservative wars, and the bleeding of people and resources into Latin America.

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain after the 1808 – 1874 crisis.

* 1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria ( d. 1892 )

* 1808 – William W. Chapman, American politician ( d. 1892 )

* 1875 – Karl Andree, German geographer ( b. 1808 )

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

In the Karang Intan Agreement during the reign of Prince Nata Dilaga ( Susuhunan Nata Alam ) ( 1808 – 1825 ), the Banjar Kingdom gave up its territories to the Dutch Indies which included Bulungan, Kutai, Pasir, Pagatan and Kotawaringin.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

Roman Catholic emancipation, which he continued to advocate with unflagging energy, though now advanced in age, became complicated after 1808 by the question whether a veto on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops should rest with the crown.

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

In 1808 he was appointed by the Bavarian government ordinary professor of Roman law at, where he remained a year and a half.

This saw the short lived Republic of Ancona, in 1797 – 98, the merging of the region with the Roman Republic, in 1798 – 99 and with the Kingdom of Italy from 1808 to 1813, and the short occupation by Joachim Murat in 1815.

In 1808, Henry Alford cast doubt on Tabor due to the possible continuing Roman utilization of a fortress which Antiochus the Great built on Tabor in BC219, and which Josephus records was in use by the Romans in the Jewish War.

In 1808, Prince Camillo Borghese, Napoleon's brother-in-law, was forced to sell the Borghese Roman sculptures and antiquities to the Emperor.

The diocese began in 1808 when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown was established along with the dioceses of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia out of the territory of the Baltimore Diocese, the first Catholic diocese in the US.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown ( Kentucky ) was established on April 8, 1808, along with the dioceses of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, out of the territory of the Baltimore Diocese, the first Catholic diocese in the US.

She made her mark in historical romance, and the first of her novels of this class, Agathocles ( 1808 ), an answer to Edward Gibbon's attack on that hero in his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, attained great popularity.

* Johann Baptist Alzog, ( 1808 – 1878 ) German theologian and Catholic church historian.

It was founded by French émigré Father John DuBois ( Père Jean Dubois ) in 1808 and is the oldest independent Catholic college in the United States.

The original wooden Catholic church was first built here back in 1673, but currently the oldest remaining graves are from 1808.

By the early 19th Century, the Jesuit rector of that church, Father Kohlmann, realized that the city's growing Catholic population needed both a second sanctuary and a cathedral for the first bishop, since the city had been made a see in 1808.

Johann Baptist Alzog ( 8 June 1808 – 1 March 1878 ) was a German theologian and Catholic church historian.

The Diocese of New York, created in 1808, was made an archdiocese by Pope Pius IX on July 19, 1850.

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

On April 8, 1808, the suffragan dioceses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Bardstown ( moved to Louisville in 1841 ) were erected by Pope Pius VII from the territory of the Diocese of Baltimore, which was simultaneously raised to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese.

On April 8, 1808, the suffragan dioceses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Bardstown ( moved in 1841 to Louisville ) were erected by Pope Pius VII from the territory of the Diocese of Baltimore, which was simultaneously raised to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese.

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 area that is now known as Joliet was governed by the Diocese of Bardstown, present-day Archdiocese of Louisville in Kentucky.

The original Diocese of Boston was canonically erected on April 8, 1808 by Pope Pius VII.

The Diocese of Bardstown, the first inland diocese in the United States, was established in 1808, with Benedict Joseph Flaget as the first Bishop of Bardstown.

The Diocese of Bardstown was erected into an Episcopal See April 8, 1808 by the Holy See.

As administrator he founded in 1808 an independent congregation of Sisters of Mercy, the so-called Klemens-Schwestern, who, though practically confined to the Diocese of Münster, numbered eighty-one houses and 1126 members in 1904.

On April 8, 1808, the Holy See raised Baltimore to the status of an Archdiocese.

The house had been offered as an inducement to Elizabeth Seton to come to Baltimore in 1808 and there to found a school and occupy the then newly completed house.

The diocese was erected by Pope Pius VII on April 8, 1808, from territories of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

From 1808 until 1847, Baltimore was the only archdiocese and therefore the entire country was one ecclesiastical province.

Enoch Pratt ( September 10, 1808 — September 17, 1896 -) was an American businessman in Baltimore, Maryland, a Unitarian, and a philanthropist.

After service with Edward Preble's squadron in the Mediterranean and a cruise to the East Indies, Henley received his first command, Gunboat No. 5, at Baltimore, Maryland on 9 April 1808. Henley was in command of two divisions of 15 gunboats which drove three British frigates from Hampton Roads on 20 June 1813.

Born: 1808, Baltimore, Md.

* Arunah Abell ( 1808 – 1888 ), journalist, newspaper publisher, founder of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Baltimore Sun newspapers.

Potts died in Frederick in 1808, and was interred in All Saints ’ Parish Cemetery until his reinterment in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore.

Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the US in April 2008 celebrated the 200th anniversary of the 1808 creation of the new dioceses and the elevation of Baltimore to an archdiocese.

In 1808 the papal brief was issued making Boston a bishopric, suffragan to Baltimore, and Cheverus its bishop.