Discovery of Calcium (Davy), Barium (Davy)

John Dalton publishes New System of Chemical Philosophy, which contains first modern scientific description of the atomic theory, and clear description of the law of multiple proportions.

Jöns Jakob Berzelius publishes Lärbok i Kemien in which he proposes modern chemical symbols and notation, and of the concept of relative atomic weight.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac collects and discovers several chemical and physical properties of air and of other gases, including experimental proofs of Boyle's and Charles's laws, and of relationships between density and composition of gases.[

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10 June 1808 Birth of Frederik [Frederick, Friedrich] Kaiser in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Chronology 1807 - 1808 - 1809