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    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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    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 United States elections elected the members of the 11th United States Congress. The election took place during the First Party System. In the...
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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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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 turmoil in Spain led to the Spanish American wars of independence of 1808 to 1833. The 18th century in Spanish historiography is often referred to...
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    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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    The 1808 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place as part of the 1808 United States presidential election. Voters chose 20 representatives...
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    The 1808 United States presidential election in Virginia was held between November 4 to December 7, 1808, as part of the 1808 United States presidential...
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    Accepting the Surrender of Madrid (French: Capitulation de Madrid, le 4 décembre 1808) is an 1810 history painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. It depicts...
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    The 1808 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place between November 4 and December 7, 1808, as part of the 1808 United States presidential...
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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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    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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    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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    nominated by the Federalist Party as its presidential candidate in 1804 and 1808, losing both elections. Born into a planter class family from South Carolina...
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    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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    (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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    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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    NGC 1808 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the southern constellation of Columba, about two degrees to the south and east of Gamma Caeli. It was discovered...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • The Peninsular War 1808–14 is a board game published in 1973 by Rostherne Games. The Peninsular War 1808–14 is a game in which the allied armies of Britain...
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    Puerta 1808 (Spanish for "Gateway") is an outdoor carbon steel sculpture by Manuel Felguérez installed in Mexico City, Mexico. It was inaugurated on 20 October...
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