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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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    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 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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for 1808–09 United States Senate elections
    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    John Taylor (1 November 1808 – 25 July 1887) was an English-born religious leader who served as the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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    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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    Shahu II of Satara (category 1808 deaths)
    Shahu Bhonsle II (1763 – 3 May 1808 CE) was the 7th Chhatrapati of the Maratha Confederacy. A member of the Bhonsle clan, he was succeeded by his son Pratap...
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    years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los...
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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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  • Sir John Carter (before December 20, 1741 – May 18, 1808), a Unitarian merchant, was on nine occasions Mayor of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, the chief...
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  • Eliza was an American brig wrecked at Fiji in 1808. Eliza had been constructed and registered at Providence, Rhode Island, United States. She carried a...
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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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    Nantes Ship ordered=26 March 1805 Laid down October 1805 Launched 20 August 1808 Captured 20 May 1811 United Kingdom Name HMS Java Acquired 20 May 1811 In...
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    Peninsular war: Spanish uprising 1808 200km 125miles Santander 12 Bailén 11 Rioseco 10 Valencia 9 Girona 8 Zaragoza 7 Cabezón 6 Cadiz 5 Alcolea 4 Valdepeñas...
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    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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