1608 (MDCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1608th year...

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank...

The year 1608 in science and technology involved some significant events. October 2 – Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first known telescope to the government...

Indiana HB 1608 (also called the "Education Matters Bill") is a bill that prohibits any person, entity, or vendor working in an official school capacity...

John Tradescant the Elder ( /trəˈdɛskənt/; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector...

after his return to Antwerp in 1608 that Rubens' works show openly Caravaggesque traits such as in the Cain slaying Abel (1608–1609) (Courtauld Institute...

his consort, Anne of Denmark. She was then rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard in 1608 by Phineas Pett I as a 42-gun royal ship. Under her new name, she was the...

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best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all...

Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife...

1918. During that time, too, the Navy gave her the identification Id. No. 1608, but did not take her over for naval service. Carolyn pursued her prosaic...

early 17th century. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony between September 1608 and August 1609, and he led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and...

Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg...

Sir John Smith or Smythe, JP (1557 – 29 October 1608), of Westenhanger, Kent, was an English politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Smythe...

that legal cases should not be tried by the monarch. 5 December–14 February 1608 – severe frost. Many rivers, including the Thames, freeze. First performance...

Bavaria (German: Maria Anna von Bayern) (21 March 1551, Munich – 29 April 1608, Graz) was a politically active Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to...

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The year 1608 in music involved some significant events and new musical works. February 9 – The masque The Hue and Cry After Cupid, written by Ben Jonson...

The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608, compiled by Thomas Trevelyon in London, England in 1608, is an illustrated manuscript miscellany containing handwritten...

Events from the year 1608 in Denmark. Monarch – Christian IV Rumors and accusations about sorcery began to spread in the town of Køge, starting what will...

present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States. In 1607 and 1608, Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a rumoured...

Events from the year 1608 in Ireland. Monarch: James I April – launch of O'Doherty's Rebellion. Following the Flight of the Earls and angered by land confiscations...

Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed. 1608 – In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry....

Captain William Hawkins and Consent under Captain David Middleton. Early in 1608, Alexander Sharpeigh was made captain of the company's Ascension, and general...

later engraved and published in 1622 as Palazzi di Genova. From 1606 to 1608, he was mostly in Rome when he received, with the assistance of Cardinal...

A True Relation of Virginia (1608), the English explorer John Smith described meeting Pocahontas in the spring of 1608 when she was "a child of ten years...

1608 Muñoz, provisional designation 1951 RZ, is a Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6.5 kilometers (4 miles) in...

1606. Modern editors derive their texts from three extant publications: the 1608 quarto (Q1), the 1619 quarto (Q2, unofficial and based on Q1), and the 1623...

1603 - King Henry IV commissions an exploratory and settlement expedition. 1608 - Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City on July 3. 1609 - Champlain and...

Emperor from 1612 to 1619, Archduke of Austria from 1608 to 1619, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 to 1618 and King of Bohemia from 1611 to 1617. His...