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Year '1508' was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1508

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1508

January - June

★ 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.

July - December

★ 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.

Undated

★ Lebna Dengel succeeds his father Na'od as Emperor of Ethiopia. Due to his young age, his grandmother Eleni acts as regent.

Births

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580)

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★ Jean Daurat, French poet (died 1588)

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★ Marin Držić, Croatian playwright (died 1567)
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Deaths

★ February 4 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist (born 1459)

★ May 27 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (born 1452)

★ July 31 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)

★ October 13 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (born 1446)

★ December 10 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (born 1451)

★ ''date unknown''

★ Isaac Abrabanel, Portuguese statesman, philosopher, and theologian (born 1437)
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