Page 3: Historical Events In 1808

Jun 15   Jozef Napoleon becomes king of Spain in the year 1808.   

Jun 16   Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Jun 22   Zebulon Pike reaches his peak in the year 1808.   

Jun 24   In the year 1808 anna Caroline Oury, composer   

Jun 27   Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide) on this day in history.   

Jun 28   In the year 1808 cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican   

Jul 02   Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam on this day in history.   

Jul 02   On this day in history simon Fraser completes his trip down the Fraser River , BC, and lands at Musqueam   

Jul 05   In the year 1808 battle of Buenos Aires   

Jul 15   In the year 1808 french marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples   

Jul 15   Henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851) on this day in history.   

Jul 20   Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66 in the year 1808.   

Jul 20   Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names on this day in history.   

Jul 23   Spanish forces at Bailen force a French army of 18,000 under Gen Pierre Antoine Dupont, 43, to surrender July 23 in the year 1808.   

Jul 28   Charles Lucas, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 28   Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey in the year 1808.   

Jul 29   In the year 1808 selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies   

Jul 31   In the year 1808 frederick Nichols Crouch, composer   

Aug 01   In the year 1808 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   On this day in history william Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

Aug 10   On this day in history carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer   

Aug 13   In the year 1808 henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81   

Aug 15   In the year 1808 a British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries   

Aug 17   In the year 1808 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 first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War on this day in history.   

Aug 24   Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

Aug 29   Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer on this day in history.   

Aug 30   In the year 1808 joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83   

Sep 13   On this day in history 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   In the year 1808 louis Clapisson, composer   

Sep 25   In the year 1808 richard Porson, scholar, dies   

Sep 26   Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

Sep 27   In the year 1808 gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79   

Sep 30   In the year 1808 covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire   

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Jan 06   Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864) was born in the year 1808.   

Jan 07   Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 was born on this day in history.   

Jan 11   Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist was born in the year 1808.   

Jan 12   Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of salmon P Chase, (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)   

Jan 19   Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887) was born in the year 1808.   

Jan 27   David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 04   Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856) was born in the year 1808.   

Jan 08   On this day in history messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies   

Feb 14   John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732) died in the year 1808.   

Mar 09   Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739) died in the year 1808.   

Mar 13   On this day in history death of king Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)   

Apr 25   On this day in history alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66   

May 05   In the year 1808 death of pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)   

May 18   On this day in history jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49   

May 28   Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720) died in the year 1808.