1508
Year 1508 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–June
December 29 - Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.Births
February 17 - Bernardo Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal April 3 - Jean Daurat, French writer and scholar April 5 - Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble April 23 - Georg Sabinus, German writer May 8 - Charles Wriothesley, English Officer of Arms June 8 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer who lays the foundations for the Slovenian written language June 10 - Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels, German noble June 13 - Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena June 29 - Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman September 19 - Maria Paleologa, Italian noblewoman September 23 - Simon Sulzer, Swiss theologian September 25 - Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla, Spanish Catholic cardinal November 23 - Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle November 25 - Cristofano Gherardi, Italian painter November 30 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect December 9 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer December 21 - Thomas Naogeorgus, German playwright December 24 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist date unknown* Livio Agresti, Italian painter * Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese daimyo * Marin Držić, Croatian playwright possible*Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer * Jane Seymour, third queen of Henry VIII of EnglandDeaths
February - Robert Lauder of the Bass, governor of Berwick-on-Tweed February 4 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist February 15 - Giovanni II Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna February 27 - James, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland February 28 - Philip, Elector Palatine March 18 - Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria March - Lourenço de Almeida, Portuguese explorer April 10 - Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero May 21 - Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney May 27 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan June 6 - Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet June 15 - Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny July 28 - Robert Blackadder, Bishop of Glasgow July 31 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia September 23 - Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary October 18 - Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland October 10 - János Thurzó, Hungarian businessman October 23 - Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician November 25 - Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels and Countess of Glatz December 10 - René II, Duke of Lorraine December 16 - Henry the Younger of Stolberg, Stadtholder of Friesland December 22 - Eric II, Duke of Mecklenburg date unknown* Isaac Abravanel, Portuguese statesman, philosopher and theologian * Mahmud Khan, Khan of Tashkent* Micheletto Corella, Valencian condottieri* Damkhat Reachea, emperor of Cambodia* Ahmad al-Wansharisi, North African Islamic jurist and theologian
