Information about 1608
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
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| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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Events of 1608
January - June
- January - At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the first supply and about 100 new settlers: he finds only 38 survivors.
- January - Jamestown: Powhatan releases John Smith.
- January 7 - Fire destroys "all the houses in the fort" at Jamestown, Virginia. The fort is repaired in March.
- March 18 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- April 10 - Jamestown: Christopher Newport again sails for England.
- May 14 - Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
July - December
- July 3 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- July 30 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
- July - English ship Mary and Margaret captained by Christopher Newport leaves England bound for Jamestown, Virginia.[1]
- August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat.
- September 10 - John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, and begins expanding the fort.
- September 21 - Founding of the University of Oviedo, Spain.
- October 1 - At Jamestown, a second supply ship, the Mary and Margaret, arrives with Christopher Newport, including 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include 8 glassmen.
- October 2 - Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament.
- Year end - Jamestown: Christopher Newport returns to England carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."
Undated
- Swedish troops enter Moscow.
- First cheques come to use in Netherlands.
- Old Bushmills Distillery is founded in Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland.
Births
1608 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1608
MDCVIIIAb urbe condita 2361 Armenian calendar 1057
ԹՎ ՌԾԷBah' calendar -236 – -235 Buddhist calendar 2152 Chinese calendar 4244/4304-7-12
(丁未年七月十二日)— to —4245/4305-6-21
(戊申年六月廿一日)Coptic calendar 1324 – 1325 Ethiopian calendar 1600 – 1601 Hebrew calendar 5368 – 5369 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1663 – 1664 - Shaka Samvat 1530 – 1531 - Kali Yuga 4709 – 4710 Holocene calendar 11608 Iranian calendar 986 – 987 Islamic calendar 1017 – 1018 Japanese calendar Keichō 0
(慶長0年)- Imperial Year Kōki 2268
(皇紀2268年)Julian calendar 1653 Korean calendar 3941 Thai solar calendar 2151 - January 28 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
- February 6 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
- April 25 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)
- June - Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat (d. 1666)
- July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
- July 14 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier (d. 1657)
- October 15 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)
- December 6 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
- December 9 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
- date unknown
- Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (d. 1685)
- John Desborough, English soldier and politician (d. 1680)
- Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (d. 1661)
- Edward Rainbowe, English clergyman and a preacher (d. 1684)
- Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (d. 1645)
- Torii Tadaharu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1651)
- See also .
Deaths
- January - Nikita Kosoj Trubetsky, Polish Prince
- January 29 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
- February 13 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
- February 13 - Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (b. 1527)
- February 26 - John Still, English bishop (b. c1543)
- March 12 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
- April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
- May 14 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
- June 19 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
- July 18 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
- August 13 - Giambologna, Italian sculptor (b. 1529)
- October 11 - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (b. c1549)
- October 19
- Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
- Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician (b. c1539)
- December
- John Dee, British mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (born 1527)
- William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (born c1541)
- date unknown
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545)
- William Barclay, Scottish jurist (b. 1546)
- Luca Bati, Italian composer (b. 1546)
- Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (b. 1539)
- Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (b. 1575)
- Fiodor Trubetsky, Polish prince
- Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (b. 1565)
- See also .
Notes
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Asia
- China (Ming Dynasty) - Wanli, Emperor of China (1573-1620)
- Dai Viet - Lê Kính Tông, Emperor of Dai Viet (1600-1619)
- Đàng Ngoài
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- Angola - Manuel Pereira Forjaz, Governor of Angola (1607-1611)
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