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Year 1608 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1608

January - June

January - At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the first supply and about 100 new settlers; he finds only 38 survivors.
January - Jamestown: Powhatan releases John Smith.
January 7 - Fire destroys "all the houses in the fort" at Jamestown, Virginia; the fort is repaired in March.
March 18 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
April 10 - Jamestown: Christopher Newport again sails for England.
May 14 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

July - December

July 3 - Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

July 30 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs; this sets the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next 100 years.

July - The English ship Mary and Margaret, captained by Christopher Newport, leaves England bound for Jamestown, Virginia.

August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat.

September 10 - John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, and begins expanding the fort.

September 21 - The University of Oviedo, Spain is founded.

October 1 - At Jamestown, a second supply ship, the Mary and Margaret, arrives with Christopher Newport, including 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include 8 glassmen.

October 2 - Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament.

December - Jamestown: Christopher Newport returns to England carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."

Undated

Swedish troops enter Moscow.

The first cheques are used in the Netherlands.

Old Bushmills Distillery is founded in Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland.

Uniform Land-Tax Law is imposed in Korea.

Five Royal Schools in Ulster are given Royal Charter by King James I Births

January 28 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)

February 6 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)

April 25 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)

June - Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat (d. 1666)

July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)

July 14 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier (d. 1657)

October 15 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)

December 6 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)

December 9 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)

date unknown

Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (d. 1685)
John Desborough, English soldier and politician (d. 1680)
Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (d. 1661)
Edward Rainbowe, English clergyman and a preacher (d. 1684)
Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (d. 1645)
Torii Tadaharu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1651)

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Deaths

January - Polish Prince Nikita Kosoj Trubetsky

January 29 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)

February 13 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)

February 13 - Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (b. 1527)

February 26 - John Still, English bishop (b. c. 1543)

March 12 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)

April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)

May 14 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)

June 19 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)

July 18 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)

August 13 - Giambologna, Italian sculptor (b. 1529)

October 11 - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (b. c. 1549)

October 19

Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician (b. c. 1539)

December

John Dee, British mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (b. 1527)
William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541)

date unknown

George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545)
William Barclay, Scottish jurist (b. 1546)
Luca Bati, Italian composer (b. 1546)
Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (b. 1539)
Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (b. 1575)
Fiodor Trubetsky, Polish prince
Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (b. 1565)

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