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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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| | | 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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