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Revision as of 20:48, 28 June 2006 by Trevor MacInnis (talk | contribs) (→Births: +1)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)| Centuries: | 15th century · 16th century · 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 |
| 1508 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1508 MDVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2261 |
| Armenian calendar | 957 ԹՎ ՋԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6258 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1429–1430 |
| Bengali calendar | 914–915 |
| 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) 4205 or 3998 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4206 or 3999 |
| Coptic calendar | 1224–1225 |
| Discordian calendar | 2674 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1500–1501 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5268–5269 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1564–1565 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1429–1430 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4608–4609 |
| Holocene calendar | 11508 |
| Igbo calendar | 508–509 |
| Iranian calendar | 886–887 |
| Islamic calendar | 913–914 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 5 (永正５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1425–1426 |
| Julian calendar | 1508 MDVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3841 |
| Minguo calendar | 404 before ROC 民前404年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 40 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2050–2051 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1634 or 1253 or 481 — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1635 or 1254 or 482 |
1508 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- 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 three year truce and cede several territories to Venice
- December 10 - League of Cambrai 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
- Lebna Dengel succeeds his father Na'od as Emperor of Ethiopia. Due to his young age, his grandmother Eleni acts as regent.
Births
- June 9 - Primoz Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformer (died 1586)
- November 30 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (died 1580)
- December 9 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died 1555)
- December 24 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (died 1567)
- Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580)
- Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (died 1583)
- Jean Daurat, French poet (died 1588)
- Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (died 1567)
Deaths
- May 27 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (born 1452)
- July 31 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
- October 13 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (born 1446)
- December 10 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (born 1451)
- Isaac Abravanel, Portuguese statesman, philosopher, and theologian (born 1437)
- Conrad Celtes, German humanist