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Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) in the 21st century[/caption]
In the year 1808, the importation of slaves into the United States is banned (Jan 1), John Adams, the last alive HMS Bounty mutineer is found on Pitcairn Islands (Feb 6), the Finnish War begins (Feb 21), Russian troops occupy Helsinki (Mar 1), Denmark declares war on Sweden (Mar 13), the people of Madrid rise up against the French troops (May 2), the fortress of Sveaborg in Helsinki is lost to Russia (May 3), the Swedish archipelago fleet defeats the Russians in the Battle of Turku (Jun 30), Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia (Dec 1), Napoleon joins his army in Spain (Dec 4) - and all these fine people were born:
1808-0101 1808-0110 1808-0113 Salmon P. Chase* jurist/ politician/governor - Cornish, NH USA (1873/65) 1808-0114 Henrik Heikel* clergyman/founder of a school for the deaf - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1867/59) 1808-0120 1808-0124 Seth Eastman* West Point graduate/mapmaker/illustrator - Brunswick, ME USA (1875/67) 1808-0127 David Strauss* theologian/ writer/pioneer in the historical study of Jesus - Ludwigsburg, Germany (1874/66) 1808-0131 1808-0207 Joseph Mindler* German stenographer/active in Greece - Wertingen (1868/60) 1808-0218 Alexey Gornostaev* architect - Vytkinsky Zavod, Russian Empire (1862) 1808-0308 Georg Fredrik Palmgren* musical instrument maker/piano maufacturer - Mäntsälä, GD of Finland (1877/69) 1808-0316 Hannah T. King* British-American writer/pioneer - Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England (1886/78) 1808-0322 Caroline Norton* social reformer/author - London, England (1877/69) 1808-0413 Antonio Meucci* Italian inventor/developer of what some have credited as the first telephone/an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Florence, First French Empire (1889/81) 1808-0414 William Marvin* lawyer/ Governor of Florida - Fairfield, NY USA (1902/94) 1808-0420 Napoleon III* Emperor of the French/President of France - Paris, First French Empire (1873/64) 1808-0502 Emma Darwin* wife of Charles Darwin - Maer, Staffordshire, England (1896/88) 1808-0522 Gérard de Nerval* writer/poet/ translator - Paris, France (1855/46) 1808-0603 Jefferson Davis* President of the Confederate States - Fairview, KY USA (1889/81) 1808-0709 Alexander William Doniphan* attorney/politician - Mason County, KY USA (1887/79) 1808-0801 Aurora Karamzin* (b Stjernvall) marriage to Pavel Demidov left her rich/philanthropist - Ulvila, Finland-Sweden (1902/93) 1808-0908 Grace Kamaikui* high chiefess - Kawaihae, Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawaii (1866/57) 1808-1028 Horace Smith* gunsmith/inventor/ businessman - Cheshire, MA USA (1893/84) 1808-1101 John Taylor* Mormon leader - Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, England 1808-1106 Friedrich Julius Richelot* German mathematician - Königsberg, Prussia (1875/66) 1808-1129 William F. Johnston* lawyer/politician - Greensburg, PA USA (1872/63) 1808-1201 1808-1215 James E. Broome* politician/ Governor of Florida - Hamburg, SC USA (1883/74) 1808-1229 Andrew Johnson* politician/17usp - Raleigh, NC USA (1875/66) Updated 7.12.2022-3 Search for another here