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Everything about 1508 totally explainedYear 1508 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1508
January - June
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.
Ongoing
Italian Wars (1494-1559)
Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars (1492-1537)
Births
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
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
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