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| Born : | 12/29/1808 | Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69) |
| Born : | 08/24/1808 | Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 04/16/1808 | Caleb Blood Smith, Secy Int (Union), died in 1864 |
| Born : | 03/14/1808 | Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brig General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 06/11/1808 | Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882 |
| Born : | 06/28/1808 | Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican |
| Born : | 01/27/1808 | David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Das Leben Jesus) |
| Born : | 06/27/1808 | Everhardus J Potgieter, writer/publisher (The Guide) |
| Born : | 10/06/1808 | Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63) |
| Born : | 06/10/1808 | Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser compass) |
| Born : | 05/21/1808 | G‚rard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia) |
| Born : | 07/15/1808 | Henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851) |
| Born : | 07/15/1808 | Henry Edward Manning, cardinal/archbishop (Westminster) |
| Born : | 10/13/1808 | Henry Haywood Bell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1868 |
| Born : | 08/29/1808 | Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer |
| Born : | 02/26/1808 | Honor‚ Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist |
| Born : | 12/07/1808 | Hugh McCulloch, US Secy of Treasury |
| Born : | 11/27/1808 | Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
| Born : | 01/07/1808 | Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 |
| Born : | 02/25/1808 | James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
| Born : | 06/03/1808 | Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5) |
| Born : | 03/23/1808 | Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook) |
| Born : | 12/06/1808 | Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future) |
| Born : | 03/25/1808 | Jos‚ de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes) |
| Born : | 04/20/1808 | Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71) |
| Born : | 01/12/1808 | Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer |
| Born : | 01/13/1808 | Salmon P Chase, (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73) |
| Born : | 05/19/1808 | Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
| Born : | 12/25/1808 | Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890 |
| Born : | 10/05/1808 | Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
| Born : | 11/22/1808 | Thomas Cook, founder Cook travel bureau |
| Born : | 08/24/1808 | Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
| Born : | 12/20/1808 | Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887 |
| Born : | 12/23/1808 | Thomas Turner, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883 |
| Born : | 08/09/1808 | William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Died : | 01/08/1808 | Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies |
| Died : | 11/16/1808 | Mustafa IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies |
| Died : | 09/25/1808 | Richard Porson, scholar, dies |
| Died : | 07/29/1808 | SelŚm III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies |
| Special : | 06/01/1808 | 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio |
| Special : | 03/06/1808 | 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard |
| Special : | 04/30/1808 | 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri |
| Special : | 01/01/1808 | African Benevolent Society (education) forms |
| Special : | 02/11/1808 | Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa |
| Special : | 07/05/1808 | Battle of Buenos Aires |
| Special : | 04/17/1808 | Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships |
| Special : | 01/01/1808 | Congress prohibits importation of slaves |
| Special : | 03/31/1808 | French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names |
| Special : | 05/03/1808 | Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May" |
| Special : | 10/31/1808 | Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain |
| Special : | 12/07/1808 | James Madison elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres |
| Special : | 01/19/1808 | Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law |
| Special : | 08/17/1808 | Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain |
| Special : | 07/20/1808 | Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names |
| Special : | 03/23/1808 | Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain |
| Special : | 11/10/1808 | Osage Treaty signed |
| Special : | 03/07/1808 | Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro |
| Special : | 07/02/1808 | Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam |
| Special : | 05/02/1808 | Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid |
| Special : | 04/13/1808 | William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance |
| Special : | 06/22/1808 | Zebulon Pike reaches his peak |
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