1608
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| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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1608 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events
- January 7 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- March 18 - Susenyos formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- May 14 - Protestant Union founded in Auhausen.
- 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.
- August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat.
- September 10 - John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- October 2 - Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament.
Unknown dates
- Swedish troops enter Moscow.
- First cheques come to use in Netherlands.
- Old Bushmills Distillery founded in Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland.
Births
- January 28 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (died 1679)
- February 6 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (died 1697)
- April 25 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
- July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1657)
- July 14 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier (died 1657)
- October 15 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
- December 6 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (died 1670)
- December 9 - John Milton, English poet (died 1674)
- Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (died 1685)
- John Desborough, English soldier and politician (died 1680)
- Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat (died 1666)
- Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (died 1661)
- Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor (died 1661)
- Gaston, Duke of Orleans, third son of the French king Henry IV (died 1660)
- Edward Rainbowe, English clergyman and a preacher (died 1684)
- Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (died 1645)
- Torii Tadaharu, Japanese nobleman (died 1651)
See also Category:1608 births.
Deaths
- January 29 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (born 1557)
- February 13 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (born 1526)
- February 13 - Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (born 1527)
- February 26 - John Still, English bishop (born c1543)
- March 12 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (born 1530)
- April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (born 1536)
- May 14 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (born 1543)
- June 19 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
- July 18 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
- October 11 - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (born c1549)
- October 19 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (born 1551)
- October 19 - Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician (born c1539)
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (born 1545)
- William Barclay, Scottish jurist (born 1546)
- Luca Bati, Italian composer (born 1546)
- William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (born c1541)
- December - John Dee, British mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (born 1527)
- Giambologna, Italian sculptor (born 1529)
- Bess of Hardwick, English jailor of Mary I of Scotland (born 1520)
- Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
- Fyodor Nikitich Trubchevsky, Polish Prince
- Nikita Kosoy Trubchevsky, Polish Prince
- Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (born 1575)
- Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (born 1565)
See also Category:1608 deaths.
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