Editing 1508

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[[File:Cappella sistina, ricostruzione dell'interno prima degli interventi di Michelangelo, stampa del XIX secolo.jpg|250px|thumb|May 8: Michelangelo Simoni signs contract with Vatican to turn Sistine Chapel ceiling into a painting]]
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[[File:Lightmatter Sistine Chapel ceiling.jpg|thumb|right|December: [[Sistine Chapel]].]]
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Year '''1508''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDVIII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian, King of the Romans]], requests permission to march to Rome through Venetian territory, but is denied and begins his ''[[Italienzug]]''.
* [[February 2]] &ndash; During the [[Glinski rebellion]], [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania|Lithuanian]] noble [[Michael Glinski|Mykolas Glinskis]] attacks [[Grodno]] (now in [[Belarus]]) and decapitates [[Jan Zabrzeziński]], the top ally of [[Alexander I Jagiellon|Grand Duke Alexander]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jankowski |first1=Czesław |title=Powiat oszmiański: materjały do dziejów ziemi i ludzi |date=1897 |publisher=Ksiȩg. K. Grendyszyńskiego |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6c4MAAAAYAAJ&dq=Micha%C5%82+Gli%C5%84ski+Jan+Zabrzezi%C5%84ski+Grodno+%222+lutego+1508%22&pg=PA9 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Reddaway |first1=W.F. |last2=Penson |first2=J.H. |last3=Halecki |first3=O. |last4=Dyboski |first4=R. |title=The Cambridge History of Poland |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-001-28802-4 |page=301 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N883AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA301 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian]], King of the Romans, proclaims himself [[Holy Roman Emperor]] at the Italian city of [[Trento]], after having been blocked by Venice from traveling to Rome to be crowned by [[Pope Julius II]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hollegger |first1=Manfred |title=Maximilian I.: Herrscher und Mensch einer Zeitenwende |date=22 September 2005 |publisher=Kohlhammer Verlag |isbn=978-3-17-023247-1 |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ip4DwAAQBAJ&dq=%E2%80%9E4.+Februar+1508%E2%80%9C+Maximilian,+Heiliges+R%C3%B6misches+Reich,+Trient&pg=PA189 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=DeVries |first1=Kelly |last2=Rogers |first2=Clifford J. |last3=France |first3=John |title=Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume XX |date=21 June 2022 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-78327-718-6 |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dj52EAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]], attacks the [[Republic of Venice]] and sack Ampezzo the next day.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mead Skjelver |first1=Daniel |title=Maximilian I Holy Roman emperor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilian-I-Holy-Roman-emperor |website=Encyclopedias Britannica |access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Louis V, Elector Palatine|Louis V]] becomes the new [[prince elector]] of the Palatinate upon the death of his father, [[Philip, Elector Palatine|Philip]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frensdorff |first1=Ferdinand |last2=Lexer |first2=Matthias |last3=Roth |first3=Friedrich |title=Die chroniken der schwäbischen städte. Augsburg |date=1894 |publisher=S. Hirzel |page=457 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLayJFUkv6IC&dq=Kurf%C3%BCrst+von+der+Pfalz+ludwig+v+%E2%80%9E28.+Februar+1508%E2%80%9C&pg=PA457 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] &ndash; The Republic of Venice defeats Maximilian I in the [[Battle of Cadore]]. 
* [[March 5]] &ndash; ''La Cassaria'' by [[Ludovico Ariosto]], the first [[Italian language]] comedy, is premiered at [[Ferrara]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Borsellino |first1=Nino |last2=Aurigemma |first2=Marcello |title=La Letteratura italiana: Cinquecento dal Rinascimento alla controriforma |date=1970 |publisher=Laterza |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiRdAAAAMAAJ&q=La%20Cassaria%20Ludovico%20Ariosto%20ferrara%20%225%20marzo%201508%22 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] &ndash; The oldest annual [[foot race]] in Europe, the "Red Hose Race", is run for the first time, taking place in [[Scotland]] at [[Carnwath]], [[Lanarkshire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Martin |title=Curious Customs: A Guide to Local Customs and Festivals Throughout the British Isles |date=1993 |publisher=Impact Books |isbn=978-1-874687-19-1 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDXgAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%2213%20march%201508%22 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=http://clan-lockhart.org/history/ |website=Clan Lockhart Society |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[William IV, Duke of Bavaria|Wilhelm IV]] becomes the new [[Duke of Bavaria]] upon the death of his father, [[Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria|Albrecht IV]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sattler |first1=Maximilian V. |title=Lehrbuch der bayerischen Geschichte|date=1868 |publisher=Lindauer |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk5BAAAAcAAJ&dq=wilhelm+iv+%2218.+M%C3%A4rz+1508%22&pg=PA213 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 22]]
**Working from the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli at [[Florence]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] begins writing his "[[Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci#Publication|collection without order]]" of his scientific discoveries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=da Vinci |first1=Leonardo |last2=MacCurdy |first2=Edward |title=The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci |date=1955 |publisher=Braziller |location=New York |page=58 |url=https://archive.org/details/noteboo00leon/page/58/mode/2up?q=1508 |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref> 
**[[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] appoints Florentine merchant [[Amerigo Vespucci]] to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Arciniegas |first1=Germán |last2=Pforzheimer |first2=Carl Howard |title=Amerigo and the New World : the life & times of Amerigo Vespucci |date=1955 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |page=273 |url=https://archive.org/details/amerigonewworld00arci/page/272/mode/2up?q=march |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 23]] &ndash; Prince [[Mihnea cel Rău]], son of [[Vlad the Impaler]], becomes the [[List of princes of Wallachia|Voivode]] of [[Wallachia]], with a palace at [[Târgoviște]] (now in Romania), upon the death of his cousin [[Radu IV the Great]]. 
* [[May 8]] &ndash;  Italian renaissance artist [[Michelangelo|Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni]] of [[Florence]] signs a contract with the Vatican to paint the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling]], in return for a promised fee of 3,000 gold [[ducat]]s (equivalent in 2023 to more than U.S. $600,000).<ref>Yvonne Paris, ''Michelangelo: 1475–1564'' (Parragon, 2009)</ref> 
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Louis II of Hungary|Prince Lajos]] as the designated successor to his father, [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|King Vladislaus II]] of [[Hungary]], takes place in [[Székesfehérvár]]. 
* [[June 6]] &ndash; Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I signs a humiliating armistice with the Republic of Venice, which for the moment stops any of his further plans for Italy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rubinstein |first1=Nicolai |title=Firenze e il problema della politica imperiale in Italia al tempo di Massimiliano I |journal=Archivio Storico Italiano |date=1958 |volume=116 |issue=1 (417) |pages=5–35 |jstor=26250402 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26250402 |access-date=9 July 2023 |issn=0391-7770}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 23]] &ndash; Upon the death of his father, King Oxlahuh-Tz'i, Hun-Iqʼ becomes one of the two kings of [[Guatemala]]'s [[Kaqchikel people|Kaqchikel]] [[Maya peoples|Maya]] civilization. Hun-Iqʼ reigns jointly with King Kablahuh-Tihax until the latter's death on February 4.<ref>Linda Schele and Peter Mathews, ''The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Maya Temples and Tombs'' (Simon & Schuster, 1999) p.297</ref>
* [[July 27]] &ndash; The process of removing the former layers of paint on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is completed, and [[Michelangelo]] begins the next phase of marking the surface for painting.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pfisterer |first1=Ulrich |title=The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome |date=2018 |publisher=Getty Publications |isbn=978-1-60606-553-2 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CnFlDwAAQBAJ&q=%2227%20july%22 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 31]] &ndash; The [[Emperor of Ethiopia]], [[Na'od]], dies in battle.<ref name="NA" /> His son Lebna Dengel takes on the regnal name of [[Dawit II]], and becomes the new emperor starting on August 11.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=William |title=Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired Since the Year 1847 |date=1877 |publisher=British Museum |page=vii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmRvmDoKPcAC&dq=dawit+13+august+1508&pg=PR7 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 12]] &ndash; The Spanish settlement of [[Puerto Rico]] begins when [[Juan Ponce de León]] lands on the island.<ref>{{cite book |title=Puerto Rico, U.S.A. |date=1980 |publisher=Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4JdtAAAAMAAJ&dq=caparra+%22august+12+1508%22&pg=PA25 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Upon his arrival, Ponce is welcomed by [[Agüeybaná I]], the island's leader a [[Cacique]] of the [[Taíno]] people.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Altman |first1=Ida |last2=Wheat |first2=David |title=The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century |date=1 June 2019 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-9957-3 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRGQDwAAQBAJ&dq=welcomed+Ag%C3%BCeyban%C3%A1+I+Juan+Ponce+de+Le%C3%B3n&pg=PA27 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The Spanish explorer soon settles and founds the city of [[Caparra Archaeological Site|Caparra]], near what is now the town of [[Guaynabo, Puerto Rico|Guaynabo]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Caparra Archeological Site |url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/caparra_archeological_site.html |website=www.nps.gov |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] &ndash; England is left without a Roman Catholic [[Cardinal protector of England|Cardinal protector]] when Cardinal [[Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere]] dies suddenly.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilkie |first1=William E. |title=The Cardinal Protectors of England: Rome and the Tudors Before the Reformation |date=11 July 1974 |page=35|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-20332-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viA9AAAAIAAJ&dq=Galeotto+Franciotti+della+Rovere+Cardinal+protector+%2211+september+1508%22&pg=PA35 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> England's [[Henry VII of England|King Henry VII]] dies seven months later before the monarchy and the Pope can agree on a new cardinal protector. The King's successor, [[Henry VIII]], later abolishes the office entirely after [[Lorenzo Campeggio]] dies in the course of the [[English Reformation]] and the creation of the [[Church of England]].

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 8]] &ndash; An inconclusive peace treaty is signed to end the third of the [[Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars]].<ref>Rimvydas Petrauskas and Jūratė Kiaupienė, ''Lietuvos istorija. Nauji horizontai: dinastija, visoumenė, valstybė'' (''The History of Lithuania, New Horizons: Dynasty, Unification, State'') (Baltos Lankos, 2009), p. 466</ref>
* [[October 24]] &ndash; King [[Louis XII of France]] convenes court at the [[Parlement de Normandie]] building in [[Rouen]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salet |first1=Francis |title=Le Palais de Justice de Rouen. Ouvrage collectif publié par les soins du Ministère de la Justice et du département de la Seine-Maritime |journal=Bulletin Monumental |date=1980 |volume=138 |issue=1 |pages=107–108 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bulmo_0007-473x_1980_num_138_1_5889_t1_0107_0000_2 |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 1]] &ndash; At the age of 16, [[Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen|Prince Wolfgang]] of the [[House of Ascania]] becomes the new ruler of the German principality of [[Anhalt-Köthen]], succeeding his father Waldemar VI. In 1521, he will meet [[Martin Luther]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Große |first1=W. |title=Fürst Wolfgang der Standhafte von Anhalt: Geschichtsbild zur 300jährigen Gedächtnisfeier des Augsburger Religionsfriedens |date=1855 |publisher=Baumgarten |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWwAAAAAcAAJ&q=1521+luther |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref> and, in 1525, will introduce the [[Reformation]] to his principality, making Anhalt-Köthen only the second nation (after the [[Electorate of Saxony]]) to officially adopt [[Protestantism]].
* [[November 29]] &ndash; Astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Mikołaj Kopernik]] of Poland is granted benefits by [[Pope Julius II]] in order to perform his work.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gassendi |first1=Pierre |last2=Thill |first2=Olivier |title=The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543): The Man who Did Not Change the World |date=2002 |publisher=Xulon Press |isbn=978-1-59160-193-7 |pages=52–53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9r0RfQtpU6AC&q=1508&pg=PA1 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; The [[League of Cambrai]] is formed as an alliance against the [[Republic of Venice]], between [[Pope Julius II]], [[Louis XII of France]], [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Duncan Mackie|title=The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPPjvveNsTQC&pg=PA155|date=31 December 1952|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-821706-0|pages=155}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dabul]]: Portuguese forces, under the command of [[Francisco de Almeida]], attack [[Khambhat]].
* [[December]] &ndash; [[Michelangelo]] begins painting the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling]] in the [[Holy See]] of Rome, on a commission by [[Pope Julius II]] (signed May 10).<ref>{{cite book|author=Leo Steinberg|title=Michelangelo's Painting: Selected Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lR2jDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|date=31 December 2019|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-48243-9|pages=3368}}</ref>

== Births ==
[[File:Palladio filtered.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Andrea Palladio]]]]
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Bernardo Salviati]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1568]])<ref>{{cite web |title=SALVIATI, Bernardo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bernardo-salviati_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Humayun|Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad]], emperor of the Mughal Empire (d. 1556)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=S. M. |title=Akbar, the Greatest Mogul |date=1989 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |page=10 |isbn=978-0-8364-2513-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nEtuAAAAMAAJ&q=babur+padishah+%226+march+1508%22 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Jean Daurat]], French writer and scholar (d. [[1588]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]], Italian noble (d. [[1559]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Archivio storico lombardo |date=1914 |publisher=Società storica lombarda. |page=721 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsEKAAAAIAAJ&dq=Ercole+II+d%27Este+%224+aprile+1508%22&pg=PA721 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Georg Sabinus]], German writer (d. [[1560]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Becker-Cantarino |first1=Barbara |title=Daphnis |date=August 2004 |publisher=Rodopi |isbn=978-90-420-1831-0 |page=439 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ck-l647HeQC&q=%2223%20april%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Charles Wriothesley]], English Officer of Arms (d. [[1562]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |last2=Lee |first2=Sir Sidney |title=The Dictionary of National Biography |date=1909 |publisher=Macmillan Company |page=1055 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SI8AAAAIAAJ&dq=Charles+Wriothesley+%228+may+1508%22&pg=RA2-PA1055 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] or [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Primož Trubar]], Slovenian Protestant reformer who lays the foundations for the Slovenian written language (d. [[1586]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Volgar |first1=Abhilash |title=PRIMOŽ TRUBAR IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND LEXICS I |journal=Locutio |date=May 30, 2008 |volume=11 |issue=42 |url=https://www.locutio.si/index.php?no=42&clanek=990 |access-date=10 July 2023|language=sl}}</ref>
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels]], German noble (d. [[1531]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pohl |first1=Dieter |title=Die Grafschaft Glatz (Schlesien) in Darstellungen und Quellen: eine erweiterte Bibliographie |date=1994 |publisher=D. Pohl |isbn=978-3-927830-10-3 |page=203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvnfAAAAMAAJ&q=%2212%20juni%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Piccolomini]], Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (d. [[1579]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Virginia Trimble|author2=Thomas R. Williams|author3=Katherine Bracher|title=Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-BF1CHkc50C&pg=PA904|date=18 September 2007|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-30400-7|pages=904}}</ref>
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg]], German nobleman (d. [[1534]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Mittheilungen des Hanauer Bezirksvereins für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde |date=1876 |publisher=König |page=210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XppAAAAcAAJ&dq=Balthasar+%2229+juni+1508%22&pg=PA210 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Maria Paleologa]], Italian noblewoman (d. [[1530]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Simon Sulzer]], Swiss theologian (d. [[1585]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Linder |first1=Gottlieb |title=Simon Sulzer und sein Antheil an der Reformation im Lande Baden: Sowie an den Unionsbestrebungen |date=1890 |publisher=C. Winter |location=Heidelberg |page=11 |url=https://archive.org/details/simonsulzerunds01lindgoog/page/n22/mode/2up |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. [[1566]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 19, 1544 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1544.htm#Mendoza |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]], youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. [[1549]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fleischner |first1=Johann Michael |title=Die Reichsversammlung zu Augsburg bei der Ablesung und Uebergabe des evangelischen Glaubensbekenntnisses: Zur 300 jährigen Gedächtnißfeier |date=1830 |publisher=Beck |page=119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhZBAAAAcAAJ&dq=Franz+%2223+november+1508%22&pg=PA119 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Cristofano Gherardi]], Italian painter (d. [[1556]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bénézit |first1=Emmanuel |title=Dictionary of artists |date=2006 |volume=6|publisher=Gründ |location=Paris |isbn=978-2-7000-3070-9 |page=104 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofarti0006bene/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22gherardi%22 |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Andrea Palladio]], Italian architect (d. [[1580]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Georgian Group (London, England)|title=Visit to the Veneto 21st-29th September, 1957: Programme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CKZMAAAAYAAJ|year=1957|page=1}}</ref>
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Gemma Frisius]], Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. [[1555]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Regnier Gemma Frisius |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gemma_Frisius/ |website=Maths History |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Thomas Naogeorgus]], German playwright (d. [[1563]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Virginia |title=Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-8132-1729-1 |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsiKf4ZfKaUC&dq=Thomas+Naogeorgus+%2221+december+1508%22&pg=PA40 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Pietro Carnesecchi]], Italian humanist (d. [[1567]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ortolani |first1=Oddone |title=Pietro Carnesecchi: con estratti dagli atti del processo del Santo officio |date=1963 |publisher=F. Le Monnier |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXZIAAAAMAAJ&q=Pietro+Carnesecchi+%2224+dicembre+1508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Livio Agresti]], Italian painter (d. [[1580]])<ref>{{cite web |title=AGRESTI, Livio, detto Il Ricciutello |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agresti-livio-detto-il-ricciutello_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
** [[Matsunaga Hisahide]], Japanese daimyo (d. [[1577]])
** [[Marin Držić]], Croatian playwright (d. [[1567]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Držić, Marin |url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/drzic-marin |website=www.enciklopedija.hr |access-date=10 July 2023|language=hr}}</ref>
* ''possible''
** [[Jane Seymour]], third queen of [[Henry VIII of England]] (d. [[1537]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Norrie |first1=Aidan |last2=Harris |first2=Carolyn |last3=Laynesmith |first3=J. L. |last4=Messer |first4=Danna R. |last5=Woodacre |first5=Elena |title=Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty |date=20 July 2022 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-95197-9 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOF8EAAAQBAJ&dq=jane+seymour+%221508%22&pg=PA80 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Pala Sforzesca - detail 01.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Ludovico Sforza]]]]
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Robert Lauder of the Bass]], governor of Berwick-on-Tweed (b. c. [[1440]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Conrad Celtes]], German humanist (b. [[1459]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Flood |first1=John |title=Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook |date=8 September 2011 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-091274-6 |page=303 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ujbUq3NOcC&dq=Conrad+Celtes+%224+february+1508%22&pg=PA303 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Giovanni II Bentivoglio]], tyrant of Bologna (b. [[1443]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Archivio storico lombardo |date=1984 |publisher=Società storica lombarda. |page=384 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrjpqyl9Sn0C&q=%2216%20febbraio%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[James, Duke of Rothesay (born 1507)|James, Duke of Rothesay]], heir to the throne of Scotland (b. [[1507]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perry |first1=Maria |title=Sisters to the King: The Tumultuous Lives of Henry VIII's Sisters, Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France |date=1998 |publisher=André Deutsch |isbn=978-0-233-99004-0 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaxnAAAAMAAJ&q=%2227+february%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Philip, Elector Palatine]] (b. [[1448]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1888 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWpKAQAAIAAJ&dq=Philipp+%2228+februar+1508%22&pg=PA16 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. [[1447]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Silbernagl |first1=Isidor |title=Albrecht IV., der Weise, Herzog von Bayern, und seine Regierung: nach geschichtlichen Quellen verfasst |date=1857 |publisher=Deschler |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2pBAAAAcAAJ&q=%2218%20marz%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March]] &ndash; [[Lourenço de Almeida]], Portuguese explorer<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=David |last2=Chesworth |first2=John A. |title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 7 Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600): Volume 7. Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600) |date=17 August 2015 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-29848-4 |page=769 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nohjCgAAQBAJ&dq=Louren%C3%A7o+de+Almeida+%22march+1508%22&pg=PA769 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Guidobaldo da Montefeltro]], Italian ''condottiero'' (b. [[1472]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Filippini |first1=Francesco |title=Raffaello a Bologna |date=1925 |publisher=Officine grafiche reggiane |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3B5HAQAAIAAJ&dq=Guidobaldo+da+Montefeltro+%2211+aprile+1508%22&pg=PA7-IA1 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney]] (b. [[1451]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wedgwood |first1=Josiah Clement |title=History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House |date=1936 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |page=260 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xceHAAAAMAAJ&q=%2221%20may%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Ludovico Sforza]], Duke of Milan (b. [[1452]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Santoro |first1=Caterina |title=Gli Sforza |date=1994 |publisher=Editori Associati |isbn=978-88-7819-546-2 |page=339 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlVoAAAAMAAJ&q=%2227+maggio%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Ercole Strozzi]], Italian poet (b. [[1473]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vita |first1=Alessandro del |title=Amori Dei Borgia |date=1958 |publisher=Arezzo |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnGRMxMHznMC&q=%20%226%20giugno%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny]] (b. c. [[1452]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Office |first1=Great Britain Public Record |title=Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. |date=1920 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |page=367 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oY1IAAAAYAAJ&dq=bernard+stewart+%2215+june+1508%22&pg=PA367 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 28]] or [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Robert Blackadder]], Bishop of Glasgow<ref>{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=William M. |title=The first Archbishop of Glasgow; Part II |date=1944 |publisher=SCHS |page=140 |url=https://archive.org/details/rschsv08p2campbell/page/140/mode/2up?q=1508 |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Na'od]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (in battle)<ref name="NA">{{cite book |last1=Budge |first1=E.A. Wallis |title=History Of Ethiopia Nubia And Abyssinia |date=1828 |publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd. |location=London |page=323 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499166/page/n407/mode/2up?q=july |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Raphael de Mercatellis]], abbot and bibliophile (b. 1437)
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Beatrice of Naples]], queen consort of Hungary (b. [[1457]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Il Plutarco austriaco ossia Vite e ritratti di tutti i sovrani della casa d'Austria e dei più rinomati generali, uomini di stato, letterati ed artisti dell'impero austriaco del barone di Hormayr traduzione dal tedesco illustrata con note. Volume 1 |date=1823 |publisher=The Imperial Printing Director |location=Milan |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZynTatv90cC&dq=Beatrice+di+Napoli+%2223+settembre+1508%22&pg=PA154 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[János Thurzó]], Hungarian businessman (b. [[1437]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wenzel |first1=Gusztáv |title=A fuggerek jelentosége Magyarország történetében |date=1882 |publisher=A.M. Tud. Akadémia Könyvkiadó-Hivatala |location=Budapest |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hh0-AAAAYAAJ&dq=Thurz%C3%B3+J%C3%A1nos+%221508.+okt%C3%B3ber+10.%22&pg=PA21 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=hu}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell]], Lord High Admiral of Scotland<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=James Balfour |title=The Scots Peerage |date=1905 |publisher=D. Douglas |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lNmAAAAMAAJ&dq=Patrick+Hepburn+%2218+october+1508%22&pg=PA152 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros]], English politician (b. [[1446]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels]] and Countess of Glatz (b. [[1450]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mittelfranken |first1=Historischer Verein für |title=Jahresbericht des Historischen Vereins für Mittelfranken |date=1873 |publisher=Historischer Verein für Mittelfranken |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5HcnBYfSekC&dq=Ursula+von+Brandenburg+%2225+november+1508%22&pg=PA106 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[René II, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. [[1451]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marichal |first1=Paul |title=René II, duc de Lorraine et les possessions de la maison d'Anjou dans le Maine |date=1909 |publisher=Imprimerie Fleury |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cqk5AQAAMAAJ |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Henry the Younger of Stolberg]], Stadtholder of Friesland (1506–1508) (b. [[1467]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brückner |first1=Jörg |title=Zwischen Reichsstandschaft und Standesherrschaft: die Grafen zu Stolberg und ihr Verhältnis zu den Landgrafen von Thüringen und späteren Herzögen |date=2005 |publisher=Stekovics |isbn=978-3-89923-119-9 |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wOviAAAAMAAJ&q=%2216%20dezember%201508%22 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Eric II, Duke of Mecklenburg]] (b. [[1483]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Isaac Abravanel]], Portuguese statesman, philosopher and theologian (b. [[1437]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Netanyahu |first1=Benzion |title=Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman & Philosopher |date=1998 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-8485-8 |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yae4D0NeLM0C&q=falls+within |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan)]], Khan of Tashkent<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allworth |first1=Edward A. |title=The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History |date=1 September 2013 |publisher=Hoover Press |isbn=978-0-8179-8733-6 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beCoAAAAQBAJ&dq=Mahmud+Khan+%221508%22&pg=PA56 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Micheletto Corella]], Valencian condottieri
** [[Damkhat Reachea]], emperor of Cambodia<ref>{{cite book |title=International Congress of Sociology 18th Nurember, 1958 |date=1961 |publisher=A. Hain |page=311 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ftApWUTQikC&q=Damkhat+Reachea+%221508%22 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
** [[Ahmad al-Wansharisi]], North African Islamic jurist and theologian<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lagardère |first1=V. |title=al-Wans̲h̲arīsī |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-wansharisi-COM_1337 |website=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition |publisher=Brill |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en |date=24 April 2012}}</ref>

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