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1508 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events


*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 three year truce and cede several territories to Venice
*December 10 - League of Cambrai 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
*Lebna Dengel succeeds his father Na'od as Emperor of Ethiopia. Due to his young age, his grandmother Eleni acts as regent.

Births


* June 9 - Primoz Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (died 1586)
* November 30 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (died 1580)
* December 9 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died 1555)
* December 24 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (died 1567)
* Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580)
* Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (died 1583)
* Jean Daurat, French poet (died 1588)
* Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (died 1567)
* Pieter Aertsen, Dutch painter (died 1573)

Deaths


* May 27 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (born 1452)
* July 31 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
* October 13 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (born 1446)
* December 10 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (born 1451)
* Isaac Abravanel, Portuguese statesman, philosopher, and theologian (born 1437)
* Conrad Celtes, German humanist (born 1459)

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