Page 3: Historical Events In 1808

Jun 15   Jozef Napoleon is recorded as becoming king of Spain.   

Jun 16   Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60.   

Jun 22   Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.   

Jun 24   Anna Caroline Oury, composer.   

Jun 27   Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide).   

Jun 28   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican.   

Jul 02   Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam.   

Jul 02   Simon Fraser completes his trip down the Fraser River , BC, and lands at Musqueam.   

Jul 05   Battle of Buenos Aires.   

Jul 15   French marshal Joachim Murat is recorded as becoming king of Naples   

Jul 15   Henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851).   

Jul 20   Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66   

Jul 20   Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names   

Jul 23   Spanish forces at Bailen force a French army of 18000 under Gen Pierre Antoine Dupont, 43, to surrender July 23.   

Jul 28   Charles Lucas, composer   

Jul 28   Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey   

Jul 29   Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies.   

Jul 31   Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer   

Aug 01   British forces invade Portugal under Sir Arthur Wellesley, they defeat Gen Dupont August 21, but Wellesley's superiors prevent him from following up his victory   

Aug 09   William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

Aug 10   Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer.   

Aug 13   Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81   

Aug 15   A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries   

Aug 17   Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain   

Aug 21   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 inaugural Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.   

Aug 24   Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

Aug 29   Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer.   

Aug 30   Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83.   

Sep 13   Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.   

Sep 15   Louis Clapisson, composer.   

Sep 25   Richard Porson, scholar, dies   

Sep 26   Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51   

Sep 27   Gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79.   

Sep 30   Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire   

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Jan 06   Joseph pitty couthouy: American naval officer   

Jan 07   Jacob ammen: Brig general (union volunteers), died in 1894   

Jan 11   Antoine gb schayes: Belgian historian/archaeologist   

Jan 12   Paul "the great" taglioni: Vienna, ballet choreographer   

Jan 13   Salmon p chase: (sen-r) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)   

Jan 19   Lysander spooner: American philosopher    

Jan 27   David f strauss: Germany, theologist (jesus' life)   

Feb 04   Josef kajetán tyl: Czech playwright, author of the czech national anthem   

Jan 08   Messenger: Horse that sired many great trotters,    

Feb 14   John dickinson: American lawyer and governor of delaware and pennsylvania (b. 1732)   

Mar 09   Joseph bonomi the elder: Architect (b. 1739)   

Mar 13   King christian vii of denmark: King christian vii of denmark (b. 1749)   

Apr 25   Alois luigi tomasini: Composer,    

May 05   Pierre jean george cabanis: French physiologist (b. 1757)   

May 18   Jacob albright: [albrecht], german/us preacher,    

May 28   Richard hurd: English bishop and writer (b. 1720)