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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
July 22: Spains defeats French occupying forces at Battle of Bailén.
1808 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1808
MDCCCVIII
Ab urbe condita2561
Armenian calendar1257
ԹՎ ՌՄԾԷ
Assyrian calendar6558
Balinese saka calendar1729–1730
Bengali calendar1215
Berber calendar2758
British Regnal year48 Geo. 3 – 49 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2352
Burmese calendar1170
Byzantine calendar7316–7317
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4505 or 4298
    — to —
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4506 or 4299
Coptic calendar1524–1525
Discordian calendar2974
Ethiopian calendar1800–1801
Hebrew calendar5568–5569
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1864–1865
 - Shaka Samvat1729–1730
 - Kali Yuga4908–4909
Holocene calendar11808
Igbo calendar808–809
Iranian calendar1186–1187
Islamic calendar1222–1223
Japanese calendarBunka 5
(文化5年)
Javanese calendar1734–1735
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4141
Minguo calendar104 before ROC
民前104年
Nanakshahi calendar340
Thai solar calendar2350–2351
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1934 or 1553 or 781
    — to —
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1935 or 1554 or 782
March 22: England defeats Denmark and Norway troops at Battle of Zealand Point.
May 2: The Peninsular War begins as citizens of Spain begin uprising against the French occupiers.

1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1808th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 808th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1808, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–June

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Carl Spitzweg
Napoleon III
Jefferson Davis

July–December

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Jesse W. Fell
Andrew Johnson

Deaths

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January–June

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John Dickinson
Christian VII of Denmark

July–December

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Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester

References

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  4. ^ Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants (1844, reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2011) p136
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  7. ^ Hornborg, Eirik (1955). När riket sprängdes: fälttågen i Finland och Västerbotten, 1808–1809 (in Swedish). Stockholm: P. A. Norstedts och Söners Förlag.
  8. ^ "England's Greatest Chemist, Sir Humphry Davy", by John A. Bowes, in Young England magazine (Sunday School Union, 1883) p63
  9. ^ Thomas Hudson McKee, The National Conventions and Platforms of All Political Parties (Friedenwald, 1901) p18
  10. ^ William James and Frederick Chamier, The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 5 (Macmillan and Company, 1902) p53
  11. ^ Jón Stefánsson, Denmark and Sweden: With Iceland and Finland (T.F. Unwin, Ltd., 1916) p332
  12. ^ Edward C. Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710–1870 (Princeton University Press, 2014) p85
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  14. ^ "The beginning". History of the Rijksmuseum. Rijksmuseum. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  15. ^ Sarah M. Fell: Genealogy of the Fell family in America, descended from Joseph Fell, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1705 : With some account of the family remaining in England, &c. Sickler, Philadelphia, 1891, p. 139: Jesse W. Fell [1]