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...

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...

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...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508. April 4 – John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes...

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...

(1442 – 27 September 1508) was the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne from 1480 to 1508 and the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn from 1498 to 1508. Hermann IV of Hesse...

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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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...

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...