Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 24 – Maximilian, King of...
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The Georgian Campaign (1508) was an attack against Georgia led by Selim I who was then the governor of Trabzon. In 1507 Selim successfully defeated the...
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Events from the year 1508 in art. December - Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius...
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1506–1508 (unfinished), Galleria Nazionale di Parma, Parma Study for Leda and the Swan (now lost), c. 1506–1508, Chatsworth House, England By 1508, Leonardo...
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Events from the year 1508 in India. The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East spills over into the Indian Ocean as Battle of Chaul...
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William Turner (naturalist) (redirect from William (1508–1568) Turner)
under Mary Tudor. Turner was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, in or around 1508. His father was probably a tanner of the same name. He studied at Pembroke...
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War of the Holy League and several other names, was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants...
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المتوكل على الله الثالث; fl. 1508–1543) was the seventeenth Abbasid caliph of Cairo for the Mamluk Sultanate from 1508 to 1516, and again in 1517. He...
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1500s BC (decade) (redirect from 1508 BC)
15th century BC Decades 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC 1490s BC 1480s BC Years 1509 BC 1508 BC 1507 BC 1506 BC 1505 BC 1504 BC 1503 BC 1502 BC 1501 BC 1500 BC Categories...
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the 1507-1508 Lithuanian-Muscovite War. To view all Muscovite-Lithuanian wars, see Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars. Lithuanian-Muscovite War (1507-1508) also known...
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Humayun (redirect from Humayun, Emperor of Hindustan, 1508-1556)
Nasir al-Din Muhammad (6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), commonly known by his regnal name Humayun (Persian pronunciation: [hu.mɑː.juːn]), was the second...
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Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick (redirect from Sophie of Mecklenburg (1508–1541))
Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Ernst der Bekenner; 27 June 1497 – 11 January 1546), also frequently called Ernest the Confessor, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
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1500s in architecture (redirect from 1508 in architecture)
Castle in Japan built. 1505 – Archangel Cathedral in Moscow begun. 1505–1508 – Fondaco dei Tedeschi on the Grand Canal (Venice) rebuilt by Fra Giovanni...
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Cilicia Sallarids Ilkhanate Chobanids Aq Qoyunlu Kara Koyunlu Ottoman Armenia 1508–1828 Iranian Armenia Safavid Iran Afsharid Iran Qajar Iran Erivan Khanate...
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position was viewed as a defender of the Catholic faith. Until Maximilian I in 1508, the Emperor-elect (Imperator electus) was required to be crowned by the...
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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508. April 4 – John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes...
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(2019, p. 153): c. 1495–1508 Marani (2003, p. 340): 1491/1494, finished by 1508 Syson (2011, p. 164): c. 1491/1492–1499 and 1506–1508 Zöllner (2019, p. 229):...
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1335–1357 Afrasiyab dynasty 1349–1504 Mar'ashis 1359–1596 Timurid Empire 1370–1507 Kar-Kiya dynasty 1370s–1592 Qara Qoyunlu 1406–1468 Aq Qoyunlu 1468–1508...
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René II, Duke of Lorraine (category 1508 deaths)
May 1451 – 10 December 1508) was Count of Vaudémont from 1470, Duke of Lorraine from 1473, and Duke of Bar from 1483 to 1508. He claimed the crown of...
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"master" by 1500. He worked in or for several cities in north Italy until in 1508 he moved to Rome at the invitation of Pope Julius II, to work on the Apostolic...
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Kentucky Route 1508 (KY 1508) is a state highway located in northwestern Kentucky. The route starts at KY 109, west of Sturgis. It travels westward to...
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Events in the year 1508 in Portugal. King of Portugal and the Algarves: Manuel I March - Battle of Chaul Afonso de Albuquerque began his term as Governor...
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Events from the year 1508 in Ireland. Lord: Henry VII Dromahair Friary founded by Eóghan O'Rourke, Lord of West Bréifne and Margaret O'Brian of Thomond...
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John Foster or Forester (by 1508 – between 1547 and 1551), of Wellington, Shropshire, was an English politician. Foster was the son of John Foster of Wellington...
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John Bell (Leominster MP) (redirect from John Bell (by 1508-33/44))
John Bell (by 1508 – 1533/44), of Leominster, Herefordshire, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Leominster...
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