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    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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    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)
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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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    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 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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  • 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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    1677–1248–2 .573 0 8† 0 3† 13 Wisconsin 1653–1237 .572 3 20 1 3 14 Penn State 1508–1211–1 .555 0 0 0 0 15 Oregon 1753–1408 .554 0 0 1 0 16 Nebraska 1529–1410...
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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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    (1430) James (1430–1437) James (1452–1460) James (1473–1488) James (1507–1508) Arthur (1509–1510) James (1512–1513) James (1540–1541) James (1566–1567)...
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  • 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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