1508
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1505 1506 1507 – 1508 – 1509 1510 1511 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1508 MDVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2261 |
| Armenian calendar | 957 ԹՎ ՋԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6258 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −336 – −335 |
| Bengali calendar | 915 |
| Berber calendar | 2458 |
| English Regnal year | 23 Hen. 7 – 24 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2052 |
| Burmese calendar | 870 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7016–7017 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4204 or 4144 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4205 or 4145 |
| Coptic calendar | 1224–1225 |
| Discordian calendar | 2674 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1500–1501 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5268–5269 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1564–1565 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1430–1431 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4609–4610 |
| Holocene calendar | 11508 |
| Igbo calendar | 508–509 |
| Iranian calendar | 886–887 |
| Islamic calendar | 913–914 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 5 (永正５年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 1508 MDVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3841 |
| Minguo calendar | 404 before ROC 民前404年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2051 |
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December: Sistine Chapel.
Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- February – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor attacks the Republic of 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 the Republic.
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 – Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius II (signed May 10).
- December 10 – The League of Cambrai is formed as an alliance against the Republic of Venice between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Births
- February 20 – Jacob Russell Joachim, Livonian revolutionary and artist (d. 1536)
- 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
- Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580)
- Jean Daurat, French poet (d. 1588)
- Marin Držić, Croatian playwright (d. 1567)
- Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer who laid the foundations for the Slovenian written language (d. 1586)
- possible
- Jane Seymour, Third Queen of Henry VIII of England
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)
- March – Lourenço de Almeida, Portuguese explorer
- April 10 – Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (b. 1472)
- May 27 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
- June 15 – Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny (b. c. 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)
- Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan), Khan of Tashkent
- Damkhat Reachea, emperor of Cambodia
References
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