Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1808. 1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
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The 1808 United States presidential election was the sixth quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 4, to Wednesday, December 7, 1808...
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Peninsular War (redirect from Spanish revolutionary war, 1808–1814)
occupied Portugal in 1807 by transiting through Spain, and it escalated in 1808 after Napoleonic France occupied Spain, which had been its ally. Napoleon...
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The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, or Los fusilamientos...
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The 1808 mystery eruption is one or potentially multiple unidentified volcanic eruptions that resulted in a significant rise in stratospheric sulfur aerosols...
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The Second of May 1808, by Goya, also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes (Spanish: El 2 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, La lucha con los mamelucos or La...
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1808: The Flight of the Emperor, subtitled How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World (Portuguese:...
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The following lists events that happened during 1808 in Australia. Monarch - George III Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales...
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The 1808–09 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states, coinciding with the 1808 presidential election. As these U.S...
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Finnish War (redirect from Russo-Swedish War of 1808-1809)
fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the war...
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of Spain (1808–1874) Contemporary history of Spain Enlightenment in Spain Spanish American Enlightenment John Lynch, Bourbon Spain, 1700–1808. Oxford:...
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Siege of Gerona (disambiguation) (redirect from Siege of Gerona (1808))
of the Spanish Succession Battle of Gerona (1808), part of the Peninsular War Second siege of Gerona (1808), part of the Peninsular War Third siege of...
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Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743) (redirect from Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1743-1808))
(German: Maria Elisabeth Josefa Johanna Antonia; 13 August 1743 – 22 September 1808) was an archduchess of Austria and princess of Tuscany, Bohemia, and Hungary...
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Solomon Northup (redirect from Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?)
Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807–1808; died c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born...
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Mexican War of Independence (redirect from 1808 Mexican political crisis)
through the end of the conflict. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Spain in 1808 touched off a crisis of legitimacy of crown rule, since he had placed his...
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The Examiner was a weekly paper founded by Leigh and John Hunt in 1808. For the first fifty years it was a leading intellectual journal expounding radical...
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in the 19th century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive "liberation war" ensued. Following the Spanish...
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Dos de Mayo Uprising (redirect from The May 2nd Uprising in Madrid (1808))
de Mayo or Second of May Uprising took place in Madrid, Spain, on 2–3 May 1808. The rebellion, mainly by civilians, with some isolated military action by...
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Events from the year 1808 in Canada. Monarch: George III Parliament of Lower Canada: 4th (until April 27) Parliament of Upper Canada: 4th (until March...
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Jefferson Davis (redirect from Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889)
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from...
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Spain under Joseph Bonaparte (redirect from Kingdom of Spain (1808–1813))
Spain was the part of Spain loyal to Joseph I during the Peninsular War (1808–1813), forming a Bonapartist client state officially known as the Kingdom...
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17487/RFC3986. STD 66. RFC 3986. Internet Standard 66. Obsoletes RFC 2732, 2396 and 1808. Updated by RFC 6874, 7320 and 8820. Updates RFC 1738. Hansen, Tony; Hardie...
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James Madison (redirect from James Madison 1808 presidential campaign)
Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase. Madison was elected president in 1808. Motivated by desire to acquire land held by Britain, Spain, and Native Americans...
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Dulwich College (redirect from Dulwich College Estate Act 1808)
of common land within the manor, the college was granted the power by the 1808 Dulwich College Building Act to extend the period over which leases ran,...
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French frigate Vénus (1806) (redirect from French frigate Venus (1808))
British service as HMS Nereide. She was broken up in 1816. On 10 November 1808, she departed Cherbourg, bound for Île de France, where she served as Rear-Adm...
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Shahu II of Satara (category 1808 deaths)
Shahu Bhonsle II (1763 – 3 May 1808) was the seventh Chhatrapati of the Maratha Confederacy. During his reign, the Marathas won the First Anglo-Maratha...
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John Dickinson (redirect from John Dickinson (1732-1808))
John Dickinson (November 13, [O.S. November 2] 1732 – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney and politician from Philadelphia...
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The Dano–Swedish War of 1808–1809 was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden due to Denmark–Norway's alliance with France and Sweden's alliance with the...
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Anglo-Spanish War was fought between 1796 and 1802, and again from 1804 to 1808, as part of the Coalition Wars. The war ended when an unexpected alliance...
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Napoleonic Wars (section Peninsular War, 1808–1814)
reigning Spanish royal family, and declare his brother King of Spain in 1808 as José I. The Spanish and Portuguese thus revolted, with British support...
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