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1508{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1505 1506 1507 - 1508 - 1509 1510 1511 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |} ==Events== *February - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor attacks Venice *June 6 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venice 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 of Ethiopia acts as regent. ==Births== * June 9 - Primoz Trubar, Slovenian author (died 1586) * November 30 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (died 1580) * December 9 - Gemma Frisius, mathematician (died 1555) * December 24 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (died 1567) * 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) ==Deaths== * May 27 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (born 1452) * October 13 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, follower of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses (born 1446) * December 10 - René II, Duke of Lorraine, and Duke of Bar (born 1451) * Abravanel, Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, and theologian (born 1437) * Conrad Celtes, German Humanist scholar * Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle) 1508 os:1508 15081500s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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