1808

1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1808th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 808th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1808, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  – 1800s –  1810s  1820s  1830s
Years:	1805 1806 1807 – 1808 – 1809 1810 1811

1808 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1808 MDCCCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2561
Armenian calendar	1257 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6558
Balinese saka calendar	1729–1730
Bengali calendar	1215
Berber calendar	2758
British Regnal year	48 Geo. 3 – 49 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2352
Burmese calendar	1170
Byzantine calendar	7316–7317
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4504 or 4444     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4505 or 4445
Coptic calendar	1524–1525
Discordian calendar	2974
Ethiopian calendar	1800–1801
Hebrew calendar	5568–5569
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1864–1865
- Shaka Samvat	1729–1730
- Kali Yuga	4908–4909
Holocene calendar	11808
Igbo calendar	808–809
Iranian calendar	1186–1187
Islamic calendar	1222–1223
Japanese calendar	Bunka 5 (文化５年)
Javanese calendar	1734–1735
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4141
Minguo calendar	104 before ROC 民前104年
Nanakshahi calendar	340
Thai solar calendar	2350–2351
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 1934 or 1553 or 781     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1935 or 1554 or 782

Events

• March 13 – Frederick VI becomes king of Denmark. The next day, Denmark declares war on Sweden.
• March 19 – Charles IV of Spain leaves the throne for his son, Ferdinand VII.
• November 15 – Mahmud II (1808–1839) succeeds Mustafa IV (1807–1808) as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy is published.
• Barium, calcium, magnesium and strontium are isolated by Humphry Davy in England.

Births

for more information, see Category:1808 births.

• December 29 – Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States (d. 1875)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1808 deaths.