1808

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s – 1800s – 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years:	1805 1806 1807 – 1808 – 1809 1810 1811

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Events

March 13 – Frederick VI becomes king of Denmark. The next day, Denmark declares war on Sweden.
March 19 – Charles IV of Spain leaves the throne for his son, Ferdinand VII.
November 15 – Mahmud II (1808–1839) succeeds Mustafa IV (1807–1808) as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy is published.
Barium, calcium, magnesium and strontium are isolated by Humphry Davy in England.

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December 29 – Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States (d. 1875)

July 22: Spains defeats French occupying forces at Battle of Bailén.
March 22: Britain defeats Denmark-Norway at the Battle of Zealand Point.
May 2: The Peninsular War begins as citizens of Spain begin uprising against the French occupiers.
- Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885)
United States Senator Jefferson Davis, about a year before he became President of the Confederate States of America. Library of Congress attributes this original photograph to about 1859 when Davis was still a US Senator. Wilson, 2013, p. 58,
Portrait of Jesse Weldon Fell (1808–1887): He founded several cities in Central Illinois, founded The Pantagraph, and was instrumental in moving Illinois State University from Bloomington to
President Andrew Johnson
Portrait of John Dickinson, American politician (November 8, 1732 – February 14, 1808)
Christian VII of Denmark

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