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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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| 1808 |
| | Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa set up a permanent base in Indiana, calling it Prophetstown | |
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| 1808 |
| | The French capture of Madrid provokes a British response and the resulting Peninsular War | |
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| 1808 |
| | An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya | |
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| 1808 |
| | The Portuguese royal family and their entourage arrive in Rio de Janeiro | |
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