Important Historical Events of the year 1808, Year 1808 in History

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List of 1808 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1808

What happened in the year 1808?

Date	Event
January 1, 1808	The United States bans the importation of slaves.
January 12, 1808	John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
January 12, 1808	The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
January 22, 1808	The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
January 26, 1808	The Rum Rebellion is the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in New South Wales.
February 11, 1808	Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
February 21, 1808	Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
March 19, 1808	Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son, Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.
April 6, 1808	John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
May 2, 1808	Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
May 3, 1808	Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
May 3, 1808	Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
May 12, 1808	Finnish War: Swedish-Finnish troops, led by Captain Karl Wilhelm Malmi, conquers the city of Kuopio from Russians after the Battle of Kuopio.
June 15, 1808	Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
July 8, 1808	Promulgation of the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter Joseph Bonaparte intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
July 14, 1808	The Finnish War: the Battle of Lapua was fought.
July 28, 1808	Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
August 17, 1808	The Finnish War: The Battle of Alavus is fought.
August 21, 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.
September 13, 1808	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.
September 14, 1808	Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.
October 14, 1808	The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
November 19, 1808	Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.[3]
November 23, 1808	French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
December 20, 1808	Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
December 22, 1808	Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy.