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" Consequently, the Bull speaks of the, the " king to be promoted emperor " — although the distinction between the two titles would become increasingly irrelevant ( and virtually nonexistent after Maximilian I had renounced his coronation as Emperor in 1508 ).

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

Francisco de Almeida had rushed to chase the Egyptian fleet because Afonso de Albuquerque arrived on December 6, 1508 with orders from the King of Portugal to replace him as the next viceroy.

Lourenço de Almeida ( died March 1508 ), son of Francisco de Almeida, the first viceroy of Portuguese India, acting under him, distinguished himself in the Indian Ocean, and made Ceylon ( present Sri Lanka ) tributary to Portugal ( see Portuguese Ceylon ).

Sources differ over the number of years he raided Ethiopia: Francisco Álvares states that his raids began in the reign of Eskender, and lasted 25 years ; however, Beckingham and Huntingford note that the Ethiopian Paris Chronicle, which draws on contemporary Ethiopian records, dates the beginning of these raids to the ascension of Lebna Dengel in 1508.

* Francisco de Aguirre ( conquistador ) ( 1508 – 1581 ), a Spanish conquistador, conquistador of Chile

* 1508: Baron de Ros, called out of abeyance after 4 years ; again in 1806 ( after 119 years ), in 1943 ( after 4 years ) and in 1958 ( after 2 years ).

One of the earliest examples of the technique can be found in the 16th century chivalric romance, Amadis of Gaul ( 1508 ), written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

The pavane, the earliest-known example of which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse.

* Anne de Pisseleu d ' Heilly ( 1508 – 1580 ): last official mistress of King Francis I of France

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The duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro Sforza ( 1452 – 1508 ), agreed to the marriage, which was held in the presence of Leonardo da Vinci, and encouraged the launch of the new cake-like bread: Pan de Toni ( or Toni's bread ).

* date unknown – Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician ( d. 1508 )

In 1508, Juan Ponce de León settled Puerto Rico, and reports in Spanish journals suggested that the settlement used the Virgin Islands for fishing, but nothing else.

Around 1509, under a land grant from the Spanish king, he became founder and governor of Castilla de Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on the American mainland ( different sources give dates from 1508 to 1510 ).

Besides its growing political importance, it also became a cultural center with the foundation of the University of Alcalá de Henares on 1508.

Agüeybana, a cacique who led the region, was among those that greeted Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León when he came to the island in 1508.

The first known printed edition was published in Zaragoza in 1508, by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo ( or Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo ).

A Spanish writer, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, edited and published the first printed edition ( and earliest extant version ) in three volumes in 1508.

* Books I – IV: 1508 ( Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo ): Amadís de Gaula.

In 1508 at the Battle of Chaul the Mamluk fleet won over the Portuguese viceroy's son Lourenço de Almeida, but in the following year the Portuguese won the Battle of Diu in which the Port city of Diu was wrested from the Gujarat Sultanate.

* date unknown-Gabriele Giolito de ' Ferrari, Italian printer ( born c. 1508 )

Christopher Columbus arrived to the island in November 1493, but the indelible mark of Spanish culture wasn't felt until Juan Ponce de León invaded the island in 1508 and established a colony near the current capital of San Juan.

The first European settlement in Puerto Rico, Caparra, was founded in 1508 by Juan Ponce de León in land that is today part of Guaynabo.

Only this archipelago and the possessions of Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña ( 1476 – 1524 ), Melilla ( conquered by Pedro de Estopiñán in 1497 ), Villa Cisneros ( founded in 1502 in current Western Sahara ), Mazalquivir ( 1505 ), Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera ( 1508 ), Oran ( 1509 – 1790 ), Algiers ( 1510 – 1529 ), Bugia ( 1510 – 1554 ), Tripoli ( 1511 – 1551 ), Tunis ( 1535 – 1569 ) and Ceuta ( ceded by Portugal in 1668 ) remained as Spanish territory in Africa.

In March 1508 a Portuguese squadron under command of Lourenço de Almeida was attacked by a combined Mameluk Egyptian and Gujarat Sultanate fleet at Chaul and Dabul respectively, led by admirals Mirocem and Meliqueaz in the Battle of Chaul ( 1508 ).

In March 1508, commanded by Mamluk admiral Mirocem ( Amir Husain Al-Kurdi ) or Admiral ( Husain Al-Kurdi ), the Egyptian Mamluk fleets arrived at Chaul in India where they surprised a Portuguese fleet commanded by Lourenço de Almeida, son of the Portuguese viceroy.

His son Lourenço de Almeida too was killed in the Battle of Chaul in 1508.

In March 1508, at the request of the Arab merchants of Calicut, an Egyptian fleet under the command of Amir Husain Al-Kurdi ( Mir Hussain ) of the Mameluk Egyptian attacked and defeated the Portuguese squadron under command of Lourenço de Almeida at Chaul in the Battle of Chaul.

Afonso de Albuquerque arrived at Cannanore at the close of 1508 and immediately made known an hitherto secret commission he had received from the King empowering him as governor to supersede Almeida at his term as viceroy.

* 1508 March – Sultan of Cairo's navy defeats Portuguese at Battle of Chaul, killing D. Lourenço de Almeida

In 1508 Francis Almeida sailed into Bombay.

His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years ( from 1504 – 1508 ) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

Pietro Carnesecchi, ( 24 December 1508 – 1 October 1567 ), burned by the Inquisition in 1567, who had known Valdés at Rome as " a modest and well-bred courtier ," found him at Naples ( 1540 ) " wholly intent upon the study of Holy Scripture ," translating portions into Spanish from Hebrew and Greek, with comments and introductions.

The book was printed in Rome between 1508 and 1510 and during the 16th century spread in several languages and eventually was translated from Latin into Portuguese four times and German seven times.

He served the German king, Maximilian I, in the war over the succession to the duchy of Bavaria-Landshut in 1504, receiving some additions to Württemberg as a reward ; he accompanied Maximilian on his unfinished journey to Rome in 1508 ; and he marched with the imperial army into France in 1513.

It was quickly followed by translations into Latin ( 1508 ), German ( 1508 ) and French ( 1515 ).

On August 18 1508, the painting was delivered and put into place.

In 1508 Ringmann made the first translation of Julius Caesar's Commentaries into German with supplemental lives by Suetonius, Plutarch, and others.

In 1508, Ōuchi Yoshioki, who then harbored Yoshiki, marched his armies into Kyoto and made Yoshiki back into the seat of Shogun.

In 1508, when Ōuchi Yoshioki marched his armies into Kyoto having Ashikaga Yoshiki ( Ashikaga Yoshitane ) who was the former shogun and had escaped to Suo Province as his boss, Takakuni conspired with them and purged the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshizumi and Sumimoto to Ōmi Province.