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 v • d • e

Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1508 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Ongoing 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1508

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Ongoing

• Italian Wars (1494–1559)
• Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars (1492–1537)

[edit] Births

1508 in other calendars

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
- Vikram Samvat	1563 – 1564
- 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
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• June 9 – Primoz Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
• 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)
  • Flandre Scarlet, Vampire

[edit] 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)