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| 1807 |
| | | George Canning is appointed British foreign secretary in the new administration of the Duke of Portland | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Baroness Howe acquires Pope's Villa. | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade | |
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| 1808 |
| | | A French army under Joachim Murat advances on Madrid, causing the Spanish royal family to flee | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Napoleon transfers his brother Joseph Bonaparte from the throne of Naples to that of Spain | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Napoleon gives the throne of Naples, vacated by his brother Joseph, to Joachim Murat | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The German-born US entrepreneur John Jacob Astor establishes the American Fur Company | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Louis-Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, is born in Paris, the son of Napoleon's brother Louis and of Josephine's daughter Hortense | |
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