February 2 ITALY -French troops occupy Papal States
February 21 RUSSIA -Russian troops cross border to Finland without declaration of war - the Finnish War begins
March 1 FRANCE - Creation of the French imperial nobility
March 2 FINLAND - Russian troops occupy Helsinki and threaten Sveaborg
March 8 BRAZIL - Empire of the Brazil. With the arrival of the portuguese royal family in Brazil (1808), the colony was called New Portugal.
April 20 FRANCE - Birth of the future Louis Napolιon Bonaparte.
April 30 - FRANCE - Ambush of Bayonne
May 2 SPAIN - anti-French riot in Madrid "Dos de mayo".
June 6 SPAIN - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
July 5 ARGENTINA - Battle of Buenos Aires - local Hispanic forces repel the British army.
July 22 SPAIN - Bailen capitulation.
August 21 SPAIN -British troops under Wellington defeat French under Junot at the Battle of Vimeiro
August 30 PORTUGAL - Sintra capitulation.
September 17 FRANCE - Creation of the French Imperial University
September 27 GERMANY - Begins Congress of Erfurt between the emperors Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia
September 29 FINLAND- Truce between Swedish and Russian troops in Finland.
October 31 SPAIN - Lefebvre launches his IV Corps into an attack against Blake at Pancorbo.
November 5 SPAIN- Battle of Valmaceda
November 15 MIDDLE EAST - Change of Chief of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa IV (1807-1808) to Mahmud II (1808-1839)
November 23 - French Marshal Lannes defeats a Spanish army at the Battle of Tudela
November end- Swedish troops evacuate Finland. Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia.
November 30 SPAIN - Battle of Somosierra, Napoleon to Madrid.
December 20 SPAIN begins the Zaragoza siege.
December 21 SPAIN Clash of Sahagun.
Happy New Year