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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s |
| Years: | 1605 1606 1607 - 1608 - 1609 1610 1611 |
| 1608 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1608 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1608
January - June
- January - At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the first supply and about 100 new settlers; he finds only 38 survivors.
- January - Jamestown: Powhatan releases John Smith.
- January 7 - Fire destroys "all the houses in the fort" at Jamestown, Virginia; the fort is repaired in March.
- March 18 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- April 10 - Jamestown: Christopher Newport again sails for England.
- May 14 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
July - December
- July 3 - Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- July 30 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs; this sets the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next 100 years.
- July - The English ship Mary and Margaret, captained by Christopher Newport, leaves England bound for Jamestown, Virginia.[1]
- August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat.
- September 10 - John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, and begins expanding the fort.
- September 21 - The University of Oviedo, Spain is founded.
- October 1 - At Jamestown, a second supply ship, the Mary and Margaret, arrives with Christopher Newport, including 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include 8 glassmen.
- October 2 - Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament.
- December - Jamestown: Christopher Newport returns to England carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."
Undated
- Swedish troops enter Moscow.
- The first cheques are used in the Netherlands.
- Old Bushmills Distillery is founded in Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland.
- Uniform Land-Tax Law is imposed in Korea.
- Five Royal Schools in Ulster are given Royal Charter by King James I
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1608 MDCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2361 |
| Armenian calendar | 1057 ԹՎ ՌԾԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -236 – -235 |
| Berber calendar | 2558 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2152 |
| Burmese calendar | 970 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7116 – 7117 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年十一月十四日 (4244/4304-11-14) — to —
戊申年十一月廿五日(4245/4305-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 1324 – 1325 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1600 – 1601 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5368 – 5369 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1663 – 1664 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1530 – 1531 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4709 – 4710 |
| Holocene calendar | 11608 |
| Iranian calendar | 986 – 987 |
| Islamic calendar | 1016 – 1017 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 13 (慶長13年) |
| Korean calendar | 3941 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2151 |
- January 28 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
- February 6 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
- April 25 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)
- June - Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat (d. 1666)
- July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
- July 14 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier (d. 1657)
- October 15 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)
- December 6 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
- December 9 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
- date unknown
- Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (d. 1685)
- John Desborough, English soldier and politician (d. 1680)
- Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (d. 1661)
- Edward Rainbowe, English clergyman and a preacher (d. 1684)
- Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (d. 1645)
- Torii Tadaharu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1651)
- See also Category:1608 births.
Deaths
- January - Polish Prince Nikita Kosoj Trubetsky
- January 29 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
- February 13 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
- February 13 - Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (b. 1527)
- February 26 - John Still, English bishop (b. c. 1543)
- March 12 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
- April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
- May 14 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
- June 19 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
- July 18 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
- August 13 - Giambologna, Italian sculptor (b. 1529)
- October 11 - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (b. c. 1549)
- October 19
- Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
- Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician (b. c. 1539)
- December
- John Dee, British mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (b. 1527)
- William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541)
- date unknown
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545)
- William Barclay, Scottish jurist (b. 1546)
- Luca Bati, Italian composer (b. 1546)
- Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (b. 1539)
- Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (b. 1575)
- Fiodor Trubetsky, Polish prince
- Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (b. 1565)
- See also Category:1608 deaths.
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