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Encyclopedia: 1508, 1500s BC, 16th century in literature, Category:1508, 1500s in architecture, 1508 A/S, Simca 1307, List of state leaders in 1508, Category:1508 deaths, Category:1508 births

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.

* 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)