1608 (MDCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1608th year...

The year 1608 in science and technology involved some significant events. October 2 – Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first known telescope to the government...

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank...

Indiana HB 1608 (also called the "Education Matters Bill") is a bill that prohibits any person, entity, or vendor working in an official school capacity...

John Tradescant the Elder ( /trəˈdɛskənt/; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector...

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King Henry IV does commissions an exploratory and settlement expedition. 1608 - Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City on July 3. 1609 - Champlain and...

The year 1608 in music involved some significant events and new musical works. February 9 – The masque The Hue and Cry After Cupid, written by Ben Jonson...

The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608, compiled by Thomas Trevelyon in London, England in 1608, is an illustrated manuscript miscellany containing handwritten...

Bavaria (German: Maria Anna von Bayern) (21 March 1551, Munich – 29 April 1608, Graz) was a politically active Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to...

Events from the year 1608 in Quebec. The first group of French settlers arrive in what is today Tadoussac, marking the beginning of a continuous Francophone...

Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg...

Pierre Perrault (c. 1608, in Paris – 1680, in Paris) was a Receiver General of Finances for Paris and later a scientist who developed the concept of the...

his consort, Anne of Denmark. She was then rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard in 1608 by Phineas Pett I as a 42-gun royal ship. Under her new name, she was the...

1918. During that time, too, the Navy gave her the identification Id. No. 1608, but did not take her over for naval service. Carolyn pursued her prosaic...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1608. January 10 – Ben Jonson's The Masque of Beauty is performed by Queen Anne...

Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife...

best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, all considered to be...

present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States. In 1607 and 1608, Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a rumoured...

colony of Virginia, son of the archbishop Sir Edwin Sandys (died 1608) (c. 1564–1608), English politician Sir Edwin Sandys (died 1623) (1591–1623), English...

after his return to Antwerp in 1608 that Rubens' works show openly Caravaggesque traits such as in the Cain slaying Abel (1608–1609) (Courtauld Institute...

Events from the year 1608 in Denmark. Monarch – Christian IV Rumors and accusations about sorcery began to spread in the town of Køge, starting what will...

Sir John Smith or Smythe, JP (Sep. 1557 – 29 October 1608), of Westenhanger, Kent, was an English politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Thomas...

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later engraved and published in 1622 as Palazzi di Genova. From 1606 to 1608, he was mostly in Rome when he received, with the assistance of Cardinal...

Events from the year 1608 in Ireland. Monarch: James I April – launch of O'Doherty's Rebellion. Following the Flight of the Earls and angered by land confiscations...

John Smith (c. 1608 – 4 November 1657) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in...

Captain William Hawkins and Consent under Captain David Middleton. Early in 1608, Alexander Sharpeigh was made captain of the company's Ascension, and general...

fifths of its land area, with the provinces comprising the remainders. In 1608, the Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar issued a royal farman to the East India...

early 17th century. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony between September 1608 and August 1609, and he led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and...