Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1608. This year saw 12 significant events.
Teresa Sampsonia was a Circassian-English noblewoman of Safavid Iran. She was the wife of the Elizabethan English adventurer Robert Shirley, whom she accompanied on his travels and embassies across...
Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft
This is a timeline of events related to the establishment of Jamestown, which today is located the U.S. state of Virginia.
Susenyos I (Ge'ez: ሱስንዮስ Sūsinyōs; c. 1571–1575 – 17 September 1632), also known as Susenyos the Catholic, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1607 to 1632, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.
Dutch trading ship arrives at the kingdom of Loango (modern Congo) to acquire ivory, their king requests audience with VOC official Pieter van den Broecke [1]
The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen
Matthias von Habsburg's army reaches Lieben, at Prague
Claudio Monteverdi's now mostly lost opera "Arianna" premieres at a royal wedding in Mantua
Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
First English East India convoy to the Mughal court, headed by William Hawkins, lands in Surat, India
Christopher Newport (1561–1617) was an English seaman and privateer. During the war with Spain Newport was one of the most successful 'Elizabethan Sea Dogs' to venture to the Spanish Main, making...
The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a patent was submitted by Hans Lippershey, an...
Teresa Sampsonia was a Circassian-English noblewoman of Safavid Iran. She was the wife of the Elizabethan English adventurer Robert Shirley, whom she accompanied on his travels and embassies across...
Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft
This is a timeline of events related to the establishment of Jamestown, which today is located the U.S. state of Virginia.
Susenyos I (Ge'ez: ሱስንዮስ Sūsinyōs; c. 1571–1575 – 17 September 1632), also known as Susenyos the Catholic, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1607 to 1632, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.
Dutch trading ship arrives at the kingdom of Loango (modern Congo) to acquire ivory, their king requests audience with VOC official Pieter van den Broecke [1]
The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen
Matthias von Habsburg's army reaches Lieben, at Prague
Claudio Monteverdi's now mostly lost opera "Arianna" premieres at a royal wedding in Mantua
Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
First English East India convoy to the Mughal court, headed by William Hawkins, lands in Surat, India
Christopher Newport (1561–1617) was an English seaman and privateer. During the war with Spain Newport was one of the most successful 'Elizabethan Sea Dogs' to venture to the Spanish Main, making...
The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a patent was submitted by Hans Lippershey, an...