Major Events
- Jan 1 African Benevolent Society (education) forms
- Jan 1 Congress prohibits importation of slaves
- Jan 1 Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
- Jan 10 Herman Daendels succeeds Albertus Wiese as Governor-General of Dutch-East Indies
- Jan 12 The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- Jan 19 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
- Jan 26 Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia
- Feb 11 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Feb 21 Russia invades Finland, then part of the Swedish Kingdom, with 24,000 troops
- Mar 2 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
- More 1808 Events
Did You Know?
Day depicted by Spanish painter Francisco Goya in his "The Third of May", painted 1814
Napoleon III
Jefferson Davis
Andrew Johnson
John Dickinson
Ludwig van Beethoven
Napoléon Bonaparte
Thomas Jefferson
William Cavendish-Bentinck