Events from the year 1808 in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

Incumbents

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– Gustav IV Adolf

Events

* 21 February -

Finnish War The Finnish War (; ; ) was fought between the Gustavian era, Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden was established a ...

* 2 May - Battle of Pulkkila * 2 March - Siege of Sveaborg * 14 March - Dano-Swedish War of 1808–09 starts. * 16 April - Battle of Pyhäjoki * 18 April - Battle of Siikajoki * 27 April - Battle of Revolax * 28 April - Battle of Furuholm * 19–20 June - Battle of Lemo * August - Jämtland Campaign of 1808 * 27 October - Battle of Koljonvirta * 18 September - Battle of Palva Sund * 26–28 September - Helsinki village landing * -

Jöns Jacob Berzelius Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius (; 20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius became a memb ...

publishes the second part of his ''Föreläsningar i Djurkemien''. * - Elisa Servenius enlists in the Swedish army dressed as a man because "She had decided to live and to die with her husband", the soldier Bernhard Servenus; she participates in the war between

and

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Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

, and during one battle, she collected the ammunition of the Russians and gave them to her comrades. She is later discovered, fired but decorated with a medal for bravery in battle.Cecilia af Klercker (översättning och redigering) (1942). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok VIII. P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. * - The first school for the deaf and mute in Sweden is founded by Pär Aron Borg.

Births

* 6 March - Sofia Adlersparre, painter (died

1862 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. * January 6 – Second French intervention in Mexico, French intervention in Mexico: Second French Empire, French, Spanish and British ...

) * 8 September – Wendela Hebbe, reporter, often called the first female reporter of her country (died

1899 Events January * January 1 ** Spanish rule formally ends in Cuba with the cession of Spanish sovereignty to the U.S., concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (February 1899), p ...

) * - Emanuel Björling, mathematician (died

1872 Events January * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. *January 20 – The Cavite mutiny was an uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort S ...

) * 21 October - Maria Christina Bruhn, inventor (born 1732) * 28 December - Andreas Bruce, transsexual memoir writer (died 1885)

Deaths

* 3 January – Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, artist (born

1738 Events January–March * January 1 – At least 664 African slaves drown when the Dutch West Indies Company slave ship ''Leusden'' capsizes and sinks in the Maroni River during its arrival in Surinam. The Dutch crew escapes ...

) * 26 February - Lovisa Simson, theater director (born

1746 Events January–March * January 8 – The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart occupies Stirling, Scotland. * January 17 – Battle of Falkirk Muir: British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces. * February ...

) * 19 August - Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, shipbuilder (born

1721 Events January–March * January 6 – The Committee of Inquiry on the collapse of the South Sea Company in Great Britain publishes its findings. * February 5 – James Stanhope, chief minister of Great Britain, dies a day after ...

) * 30 March – Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, writer (born 1731) * 1 October – Thomas Thorild, poet (born 1759) * ''undated'' -

Maria Elisabet Öberg Maria Elisabet Öberg (1734 - 1 February 1808 in Pälkäne) was a Finnish weaver and textile artisan, considered a pioneer in the textile industry.Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi: Suomen herttuattaren arvoitus. Suomalaisia naiskohtaloita 1700 luvulta. Edita ...

, weaver (born 1734)

References

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