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| 1808 |
| | | Russia, after winning much of Finland from Sweden during the previous century, invades again in 1808 | |
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| 1808 |
| | | A British army under Arthur Wellesley (later duke of Wellington) defeats the French at Vimeiro, near Lisbon | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The Shakers define their Millennial laws in the Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Beethoven's sixth symphony (the Pastoral) has its first performance in Vienna | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Republican candidate James Madison wins the US presidential election, defeating Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Baroness Howe demolishes Pope's Villa, earning herself the sobriquet Queen of the Goths, and builds a new house next door. The demolition is recorded by J M W Turner in his painting 'Pope's Villa at Twickenham'. | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Klemens von Metternich becomes foreign minister to the Austrian emperor Francis II | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The Treaty of Fort Wayne is the climax of seven years in which William Henry Harrison has acquired millions of acres from the American Indians | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Washington Irving uses the fictional Dutch scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker as the supposed author of his comic History of New York | |
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