Editing 1608 (section)

==Events==
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===January&ndash;March===
*[[January 2]] &ndash; The first of the [[Jamestown supply missions]] returns to the Colony of Virginia with [[Christopher Newport]] commanding the ''John and Francis'' and the ''Phoenix'' bringing about 100 new settlers to supplement the 38 survivors he finds at Jamestown.
*[[January 7]] &ndash; At [[Jamestown, Virginia]], fire destroys "all the houses in the fort"; the fort is repaired in March.
*[[January 11]] &ndash; [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]] is released by [[Powhatan]] after 15 days of captivity, and arrives back at [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] the next day. <ref>Alexander Brown, ''The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of this Nation, Written from the Records Then (1624) Concealed by the Council, Rather Than from the Histories Then Licensed by the Crown'' (Houghton, 1898) p.55</ref> Upon his return, instead of being welcomed, he is charged with negligence for the deaths of the two men with him at the time of his capture, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery, but later exonerated.
*[[January 17]] &ndash; Emperor [[Susenyos I]] of [[Ethiopia]] defeats an [[Oromo people|Oromo]] army at [[Ebenat]]; 12,000 Oromo are reportedly killed at a cost of 400 [[Amhara people|Amhara]].
*[[January 23]] &ndash; Treaty of The Hague, a defensive alliance between France and the [[United Provinces of the Netherlands]], is signed.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gaëtan|last=de Raxis de Flassan|title=Histoire générale et raisonnée de la diplomatie française ou de la politique de la France depuis la fondation de la monarchie jusqu'à la fin du règne de Louis XVI|volume=2|publisher=Treuttel et Würtz|location=Paris|year=1811|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vc8TAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA258|page=258}}</ref>
*[[February 6]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Báthory]] makes an agreement with Hungarian mercenary soldiers, the ''[[Hajduk (Kingdom of Hungary)|Hajduk]]'', in order to overthrow the government of Transylvania.
*[[February 7]] &ndash; A peace conference opens at the [[Binnenhof]] at [[The Hague]], in the Netherlands, to end a war between the [[Dutch Republic]] and the [[Spanish Netherlands]] (now [[Belgium]]).
*[[February 14]] &ndash; The brutal winter of 1607-1608 in England ends after 10 weeks of sub-freezing temperatures.
*[[February 18]] &ndash; [[Don Julius Caesar d'Austria]], the illegitimate son of [[Rudolf II]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]], brutally murders his girlfriend, Markéta Pichlerová, then dismembers her body. Emperor Rudolf imprisons Julius for the rest of his life. <ref>[https://castle.ckrumlov.cz/docs/en/zamek_oinf_dojuda.xml "Don Julius D'Austria and His Fate"],  Český Krumlov website</ref>
*[[February 26]] &ndash; After being held captive in [[Morocco]] for more than 13 years, popular professor Malian [[University of Timbuktu#Ahmad Baba|Ahmad Baba]] is able to return to [[Timbuktu]] on 10 Dhu 'l-Qa'da 1016 A.H.
*[[March 5]] &ndash; [[Sigismund Rákóczi]], Prince of Transylvania, abdicates in favor of [[Gabriel Báthory]] in order to avoid a civil war.
*[[March 16]] &ndash; [[Gwanghaegun of Joseon|Gwanghaegun]] becomes the new King of Korea upon the death of his father, [[Seonjo of Joseon|King Seonjo]], who had reigned for more than 40 years.
*[[March 18]] &ndash; [[Susenyos I|Susenyos]] is formally crowned [[Emperor of Ethiopia]], at the ancient city of [[Axum]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Caraman|title=The Lost Empire: The Story of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1555-1634|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qn8hAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson|isbn=978-0-283-99254-4|page=60|language=en}}</ref>

===April&ndash;June===
*[[April 10]] &ndash; [[Jamestown supply missions]]: [[Christopher Newport]] again sails for England, carrying Powhatan's tribesman Namontack for a visit to London.
*[[April 19]] &ndash; The [[Burning of Derry]] launches [[O'Doherty's Rebellion]] in the [[Kingdom of Ireland]].
*[[April 20]] &ndash; [[Old Bushmills Distillery]] is first licensed to distil [[Irish whiskey|whiskey]] at [[Bushmills, County Antrim|Bushmills]], [[County Antrim]], Ireland by [[James VI and I|King James I]].
*[[May 8]] &ndash; A newly [[Nationalization|nationalized]] silver mine in Scotland at [[Hilderston, West Lothian]] is re-opened by [[Bevis Bulmer]].<ref>Samuel Lythe, ''The Economy of Scotland in Its European Setting, 1550-1625'' (Edinburgh, 1960), pp. 55-6.</ref>
*[[May 14]] &ndash; The [[Protestant Union]] is founded in [[Auhausen]].
*[[June 15]] &ndash; During a voyage in the [[Arctic Ocean]], explorer [[Henry Hudson]] and the crew of the ''Hopewell'' sight what they claim to be a [[mermaid]], swimming in the seas near [[Norway]]. <ref>Francis L. Hawks, ''The Adventures of Henry Hudson'' (D. Appleton & Company, 1842) p.37</ref>
*[[June 26]] &ndash; [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor|Matthias I]], already [[List of Bohemian monarchs|King of Bohemia]] becomes the [[List of Hungarian monarchs|King of Hungary]] and the [[List of rulers of Croatia|King of Croatia]] upon the abdication of both jobs by his older brother, [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Rudolf II]], who continues as [[Holy Roman Emperor]].

===July&ndash;September===
*[[July 3]] &ndash; The settlement of [[Quebec City]] is founded by [[Samuel de Champlain]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur M. Woodford|title=Charting the Inland Seas: A History of the U.S. Lake Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VF1H6E0BNJEC&pg=PA3|year=1991|publisher=U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District|isbn=978-0-8143-2499-8|pages=3}}</ref>
*[[August 24]] &ndash; The first official English representative to India, Captain [[William Hawkins (fl. c. 1600)|William Hawkins]], lands at [[Surat]].
*[[September 10]] &ndash; [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]] is elected [[President (government title)#Sub-national|council president]] of Jamestown, and begins expanding the fort.
*[[September 21]] &ndash; The [[University of Oviedo]] in Spain is founded.
*[[September 23]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Troitsky monastery|siege of the Troitsky monastery]] by the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] begins in [[Russia]] north of [[Moscow]], but fails after 16 months.

===October&ndash;December===
*[[October 1]] &ndash; The second of the [[Jamestown supply missions]], which set out in July from [[England]], arrives at [[Jamestown, Virginia]], with [[Christopher Newport]] commanding the ''Mary and Margaret'' carrying 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include two women and some skilled artisans, mostly from continental Europe, to develop industries.<ref>{{cite web|first=Gary C.|last=Grass|title=First Germans at Jamestown|publisher=Davitt Publications|year=2000|work=German Corner|url=http://www.germanheritage.com/Publications/Jamestown/first.html|access-date=2019-06-22|archive-date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125034320/http://www.germanheritage.com/Publications/Jamestown/first.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[October 2]] &ndash; [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[lens (optics)|lens]] maker [[Hans Lippershey]] demonstrates the first [[telescope]] in the [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] [[Parliament]].
*[[November 19]] &ndash; In [[Budapest]], the [[Coronation of the Hungarian monarch|coronation ceremonies]] take place for [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor|Matthias]] to be crowned as [[List of Hungarian monarchs#House of Habsburg (1526–1780)|King Mátyás II of Hungary]].
*[[November 20]] &ndash; [[Thomas Gates (governor)|Sir Thomas Gates]], Governor of the [[London Company]]'s colony at [[Jamestown, Virginia]], is ordered by the Board of Directors to forcibly convert the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native Indians]] in the area to Christianity as [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]].
*[[November 30]] &ndash; At the colony of [[Portuguese Macau]], a port on the Chinese mainland leased from the Chinese Empire, [[Nossa Senhora da Graça incident#Incident in Macau|a group of 100 Japanese samurai, wielding katana and muskets]] engage in a fight with musket-armed Portuguese soldiers commanded by Governor André Pessoa. <ref>C. R. Boxer, ''Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1770'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 1948) p. 53</ref> Around 50 Japanese are killed and the others are imprisoned until they sign an affidavit blaming themselves for the incident. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], the principal shogun of [[Japan]], subsequently ends the "[[red seal ships]]" program of authorizing Japanese nationals to visit Macau. The incident eventually leads to much larger naval battle in 1610, the [[Nossa Senhora da Graça incident]].
*[[December 13]] &ndash; At the [[Morača (monastery)|Morača monastery]] in [[Kolašin]], in what is now the nation of [[Montenegro]], Patriarch [[Jovan Kantul]] assembles the [[Serb uprising of 1596–1597|rebel leaders of Montenegro and Herzegovina]]. The group agrees with a representative of the [[Duchy of Savoy]] to deliver [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy|Duke Charles Emmanuel]] a monarchy within the Balkans, in return for special privileges to the Serbian Orthodox Church.
*[[December 20]] &ndash; [[Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein|Karl of the House of Liechtenstein]] founds the [[Monarchy of Liechtenstein|Principality of Liechtenstein]] within the Holy Roman Empire, an independent nation that will continue more than 400 years later between [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]].  
*[[December]] &ndash; Jamestown supply missions: [[Christopher Newport]] returns to England from [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."

===Date unknown===
*Spring &ndash; The [[Scrooby Congregation]] of Protestant [[English Separatists]] successfully flees to the [[Dutch Republic]] from the [[Humber]], origin of the [[Pilgrim Fathers]] who in [[1620]] move on to North America.
*The first [[cheque]]s are used in the Dutch Republic.
*The Uniform Land-Tax Law is imposed in [[Korea]].
*Five royal schools in [[Ulster]] are given a [[Royal Charter]] by King James I.</onlyinclude>