1508
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1505 1506 1507 – 1508 – 1509 1510 1511 |
| 1508 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art – |
| Literature – Music – Poetry – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Contents |
Events of 1508
January–June
- February – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor attacks Venice.
- June 6 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a 3-year truce and cede several territories to Venice.
December 1508: Sistine Chapel.
July–December
- August – Lebna Dengel succeeds his father Na'od as Emperor of Ethiopia. Due to his young age, his grandmother Eleni acts as regent.
- December 10 – The League of Cambrai is formed as an alliance against Venice between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
- December – Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Ongoing
- Italian Wars (1494–1559)
- Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars (1492–1537)
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1508 MDVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2261 |
| Armenian calendar | 957 ԹՎ ՋԾԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -336 – -335 |
| Bengali calendar | 915 |
| Berber calendar | 2458 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2052 |
| Burmese calendar | 870 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7016 – 7017 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年十一月廿九日 (4144/4204-11-29) — to —
戊辰年十二月初十日(4145/4205-12-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 1224 – 1225 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1500 – 1501 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5268 – 5269 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1564 – 1565 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1430 – 1431 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4609 – 4610 |
| Holocene calendar | 11508 |
| Iranian calendar | 886 – 887 |
| Islamic calendar | 913 – 914 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 5 (永正5年) |
| Korean calendar | 3841 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2051 |
- June 9 – Primoz Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
- August 24 – Flandre Scarlet (d. 20XX)
- November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
- December 9 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
- December 24 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
- date unknown
Deaths
- February – Robert Lauder of The Bass, governor of Berwick-on-Tweed (b. c. 1440)
- February 4 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist (b. 1459)
- February 15 – Giovanni II Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna (b. 1443)
- February 27 – James, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (b. 1507)
- February 28 – Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1448)
- April 10 – Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (b. 1472)
- May 27 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
- July 28 – Robert Blackadder, Bishop of Glasgow
- July 31 – Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (in battle)
- October 13 – Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
- October 18 – Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland
- December 10 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
- date unknown
- Isaac Abrabanel, Portuguese statesman, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1437)
- Lourenço de Almeida, Portuguese explorer
- Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan), Khan of Tashkent
- Damkhat Reachea, emperor of Cambodia
- Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny (b. c. 1452)