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    Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 24 – Maximilian, King of...
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  • The Georgian Campaign (1508) was an attack against Georgia led by Selim I who was then the governor of Trabzon. In 1507 Selim successfully defeated the...
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  • Events from the year 1508 in India. The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East spills over into the Indian Ocean as Battle of Chaul...
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  • Events from the year 1508 in art. December - Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius...
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    under Mary Tudor. Turner was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, in or around 1508. His father was probably a tanner of the same name. He studied at Pembroke...
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    War of the Holy League and several other names, was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants...
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  • المتوكل على الله الثالث; fl. 1508–1543) was the seventeenth Abbasid caliph of Cairo for the Mamluk Sultanate from 1508 to 1516, and again in 1517. He...
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  • 1500s BC (decade) (redirect from 1508 BC)
    15th century BC Decades 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC 1490s BC 1480s BC Years 1509 BC 1508 BC 1507 BC 1506 BC 1505 BC 1504 BC 1503 BC 1502 BC 1501 BC 1500 BC Categories...
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    Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Ernst der Bekenner; 27 June 1497 – 11 January 1546), also frequently called Ernest the Confessor, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
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    1496 1497 1498 1499 1500 16th century 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512 1513 1514 1515 1516 1517 1518 1519 1520 1521 1522 1523...
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