1508

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s
Years: 1505 1506 1507 - 1508 - 1509 1510 1511
1508 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works

Year 1508 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1508

February - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor attacks Venice.
June 6 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a 3-year truce and cede several territories to Venice.

December 1508: Sistine Chapel.

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.

1508 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1508
MDVIII
Ab urbe condita 2261
Armenian calendar 957
ԹՎ ՋԾԷ
Bahá'í calendar -336 – -335
Berber calendar 2458
Buddhist calendar 2052
Burmese calendar 870
Byzantine calendar 7016 – 7017
Chinese calendar 丁卯年十一月廿九日
(4144/4204-11-29)

— to —

戊辰年十二月初十日
(4145/4205-12-10)
Coptic calendar 1224 – 1225
Ethiopian calendar 1500 – 1501
Hebrew calendar 5268 – 5269
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1563 – 1564
- Shaka Samvat 1430 – 1431
- Kali Yuga 4609 – 4610
Holocene calendar 11508
Iranian calendar 886 – 887
Islamic calendar 913 – 914
Japanese calendar Eishō 5
(永正5年)
Korean calendar 3841
Thai solar calendar 2051

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
- Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580)
- Jean Daurat, French poet (d. 1588)
- Marin Držić, Croatian playwright (d. 1567)