1508
Calendar year
May 8: Michelangelo Simoni signs contract with Vatican to turn Sistine Chapel ceiling into a painting December: Sistine Chapel . Year 1508 (MDVIII leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
January 24 – Maximilian, King of the Romans , requests permission to march to Rome through Venetian territory, but is denied and begins his Italienzug February 2 – During the Glinski rebellion , Lithuanian noble Mykolas Glinskis attacks Grodno (now in Belarus ) and decapitates Jan Zabrzeziński , the top ally of Grand Duke Alexander .[ 1] [ 2] February 4 – 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 .[ 3] [ 4] February 20 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor , attacks the Republic of Venice and sack Ampezzo the next day.[ 5] February 28 – Louis V becomes the new prince elector of the Palatinate upon the death of his father, Philip .[ 6] March 2 – The Republic of Venice defeats Maximilian I in the Battle of Cadore .March 5 – La Cassaria by Ludovico Ariosto , the first Italian language comedy, is premiered at Ferrara .[ 7] March 13 – The oldest annual foot race in Europe, the "Red Hose Race", is run for the first time, taking place in Scotland at Carnwath , Lanarkshire .[ 8] [ 9] March 18 – Wilhelm IV becomes the new Duke of Bavaria upon the death of his father, Albrecht IV .[ 10] March 22
April 23 – Prince Mihnea cel Rău , son of Vlad the Impaler , becomes the Voivode of Wallachia , with a palace at Târgoviște (now in Romania), upon the death of his cousin Radu IV the Great .May 8 – Italian renaissance artist 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 ducats (equivalent in 2023 to more than U.S. $600,000).[ 13] June 4 – The coronation of Prince Lajos as the designated successor to his father, King Vladislaus II of Hungary , takes place in Székesfehérvár .June 6 – 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.[ 14]
July 23 – Upon the death of his father, King Oxlahuh-Tz'i, Hun-Iqʼ becomes one of the two kings of Guatemala 's Kaqchikel Maya civilization. Hun-Iqʼ reigns jointly with King Kablahuh-Tihax until the latter's death on February 4.[ 15] July 27 – 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.[ 16] July 31 – The Emperor of Ethiopia , Na'od , dies in battle.[ 17] Dawit II , and becomes the new emperor starting on August 11.[ 18] August 12 – The Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico begins when Juan Ponce de León lands on the island.[ 19] Agüeybaná I , the island's leader a Cacique of the Taíno people.[ 20] Caparra , near what is now the town of Guaynabo .[ 21] September 11 – England is left without a Roman Catholic Cardinal protector when Cardinal Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere dies suddenly.[ 22] 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 8 – An inconclusive peace treaty is signed to end the third of the Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars .[ 23] October 24 – King Louis XII of France convenes court at the Parlement de Normandie building in Rouen .[ 24] November 1 – At the age of 16, 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 [ 25] Reformation to his principality, making Anhalt-Köthen only the second nation (after the Electorate of Saxony ) to officially adopt Protestantism .November 29 – Astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik of Poland is granted benefits by Pope Julius II in order to perform his work.[ 26] December 10 – 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 .[ 27] December 29 – Battle of Dabul : Portuguese forces, under the command of Francisco de Almeida , attack Khambhat .December – Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome, on a commission by Pope Julius II (signed May 10).[ 28]
Births
Andrea Palladio February 17 – Bernardo Salviati , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1568 )[ 29] March 6 – Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad , emperor of the Mughal Empire (d. 1556)[ 30] April 3 – Jean Daurat , French writer and scholar (d. 1588 )April 5 – Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara , Italian noble (d. 1559 )[ 31] April 23 – Georg Sabinus , German writer (d. 1560 )[ 32] May 8 – Charles Wriothesley , English Officer of Arms (d. 1562 )[ 33] June 8 or June 9 – Primož Trubar , Slovenian Protestant reformer who lays the foundations for the Slovenian written language (d. 1586 )[ 34] June 12 – Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels , German noble (d. 1531 )[ 35] June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini , Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (d. 1579 )[ 36] June 29 – Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg , German nobleman (d. 1534 )[ 37] September 19 – Maria Paleologa , Italian noblewoman (d. 1530 )September 23 – Simon Sulzer , Swiss theologian (d. 1585 )[ 38] September 25 – Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla , Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1566 )[ 39] November 23 – Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549 )[ 40] November 26 – Cristofano Gherardi , Italian painter (d. 1556 )[ 41] November 30 – Andrea Palladio , Italian architect (d. 1580 )[ 42] December 8 – Gemma Frisius , Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555 )[ 43] December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus , German playwright (d. 1563 )[ 44] December 24 – Pietro Carnesecchi , Italian humanist (d. 1567 )[ 45] date unknown
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Deaths
Ludovico Sforza February – Robert Lauder of the Bass , governor of Berwick-on-Tweed (b. c. 1440 )February 4 – Conrad Celtes , German humanist (b. 1459 )[ 49] February 16 – Giovanni II Bentivoglio , tyrant of Bologna (b. 1443 )[ 50] February 27 – James, Duke of Rothesay , heir to the throne of Scotland (b. 1507 )[ 51] February 28 – Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1448 )[ 52] March 18 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1447 )[ 53] March – Lourenço de Almeida , Portuguese explorer[ 54] April 10 – Guidobaldo da Montefeltro , Italian condottiero (b. 1472 )[ 55] May 21 – Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (b. 1451 )[ 56] May 27 – Ludovico Sforza , Duke of Milan (b. 1452 )[ 57] June 6 – Ercole Strozzi , Italian poet (b. 1473 )[ 58] June 15 – Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny (b. c. 1452 )[ 59] July 28 or July 29 – Robert Blackadder , Bishop of Glasgow[ 60] July 31 – Na'od , Emperor of Ethiopia (in battle)[ 17] August 3 – Raphael de Mercatellis , abbot and bibliophile (b. 1437)September 23 – Beatrice of Naples , queen consort of Hungary (b. 1457 )[ 61] October 10 – János Thurzó , Hungarian businessman (b. 1437 )[ 62] October 18 – Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell , Lord High Admiral of Scotland[ 63] October 23 – Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros , English politician (b. 1446 )November 25 – Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels and Countess of Glatz (b. 1450 )[ 64] December 10 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451 )[ 65] December 16 – Henry the Younger of Stolberg , Stadtholder of Friesland (1506–1508) (b. 1467 )[ 66] December 22 – Eric II, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1483 )date unknown
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