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 other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1508 MDVIII
Ab urbe condita	2261
Armenian calendar	957 ԹՎ ՋԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6258
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)
Julian calendar	1508 MDVIII
Korean calendar	3841
Minguo calendar	404 before ROC 民前404年
Thai solar calendar	2050–2051

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.
• March 22 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appoints Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.
• 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 17 – Bernardo Salviati, Catholic cardinal (d. 1568)
• April 3 – Jean Daurat, French writer and scholar (d. 1588)
• April 5 – Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1559)
• April 23 – Georg Sabinus, German writer (d. 1560)
• May 8 – Charles Wriothesley, English Officer of Arms (d. 1562)
• June 8 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer who lays the foundations for the Slovenian written language (d. 1586)
• June 10 – Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels, German noble (d. 1531)
• June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (d. 1579)
• June 29 – Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (d. 1534)
• September 19 – Maria Paleologa, Italian noblewoman (d. 1530)
• September 23 – Simon Sulzer, Swiss theologian (d. 1585)
• September 25 – Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1566)
• November 23 – Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549)
• November 25 – Cristofano Gherardi, Italian painter (d. 1556)
• November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
• December 9 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
• December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus, German playwright (d. 1563)
• December 24 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
• date unknown
  • Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580)
  • Marin Držić, Croatian playwright (d. 1567)
• 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, 4th 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, 10th 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 Abravanel, Portuguese statesman, philosopher and theologian (b. 1437)
  • Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan), Khan of Tashkent
  • Micheletto Corella, Valencian Condottieri
  • Damkhat Reachea, emperor of Cambodia
  • Ahmad al-Wansharisi, North African Islamic jurist and theologian

References