1608 Calendar
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1608 Historical Event(s)
January 7, 1608
– Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
January 17, 1608
– Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
March 18, 1608
– Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
May 14, 1608
– The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
June 3, 1608
– Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
July 3, 1608
– Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
July 30, 1608
– At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
August 24, 1608
– The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
September 10, 1608
– John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
Who Were Born On 1608?
January 28, 1608
– Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
February 5, 1608
– Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
February 6, 1608
– Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
April 25, 1608
– Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
May 15, 1608
– René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
July 14, 1608
– George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
September 20, 1608
– Jean-Jacques Olier, French catholic priest, founder of The Sulpicians (d. 1657)
October 15, 1608
– Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)
December 6, 1608
– George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
December 9, 1608
– John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)