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... 21 KB (2,400 words) - 04:44, 25 January 2024 |
John Milton (redirect from Milton, John, 1608-1674) 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... 95 KB (11,942 words) - 10:10, 18 April 2024 |
The year 1608 in science and technology involved some significant events. October 2 – Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first known telescope to the government... 2 KB (146 words) - 19:47, 3 January 2024 |
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... 6 KB (608 words) - 06:04, 28 February 2024 |
John Tradescant the Elder (redirect from John (1608–1662) Tradescant) John Tradescant the Elder ( /trəˈdɛskənt/; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector... 7 KB (692 words) - 05:21, 30 January 2024 |
English ship Ark Royal (1587) (redirect from HMS Ark Royal (1608)) 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... 7 KB (660 words) - 00:24, 18 December 2023 |
1600s BC (decade) (redirect from 1608 BC) 16th century BC Decades 1620s BC 1610s BC 1600s BC 1590s BC 1580s BC Years 1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC 1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC Categories... 2 KB (263 words) - 14:39, 24 October 2023 |
USS Atik (redirect from USS Carolyn (ID-1608)) 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... 13 KB (1,796 words) - 22:09, 7 December 2023 |
Gaston, Duke of Orléans (redirect from Gaston de France (1608-1660)) 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... 15 KB (1,371 words) - 20:56, 15 April 2024 |
John Smith (High Sheriff of Kent) (redirect from John Smith (1557-1608)) 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... 3 KB (211 words) - 18:33, 24 May 2023 |
Maria Anna of Bavaria (born 1551) (redirect from Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551-1608)) 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... 12 KB (657 words) - 22:52, 16 April 2024 |
1600s in England (redirect from 1608 in England) 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... 36 KB (3,610 words) - 07:03, 1 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (652 words) - 16:27, 16 May 2022 |
1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 … In literature 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 Art Archaeology... 4 KB (335 words) - 19:42, 3 June 2020 |
Henry Hudson (section Expeditions of 1607 and 1608) 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... 29 KB (3,595 words) - 15:01, 23 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (269 words) - 07:34, 5 July 2023 |
The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608, compiled by Thomas Trevelyon in London, England in 1608, is an illustrated manuscript miscellany containing handwritten... 6 KB (510 words) - 09:50, 4 July 2023 |
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... 2 KB (167 words) - 18:15, 17 February 2023 |
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.... 51 KB (4,850 words) - 18:58, 26 April 2024 |
Peter Paul Rubens (section Italy (1600–1608)) 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... 56 KB (6,473 words) - 02:06, 20 April 2024 |
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... 59 KB (6,508 words) - 21:01, 13 April 2024 |
The siege of Mozambique of 1608 was a second, unsuccessful, attack by the Dutch East India Company on the Portuguese fortress of Mozambique, on the island... 8 KB (790 words) - 06:00, 3 January 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,009 words) - 20:01, 25 December 2023 |
1603 - King Henry IV commissions an exploratory and settlement expedition. 1608 - Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City on July 3. 1609 - Champlain and... 5 KB (559 words) - 03:17, 8 February 2024 |