* 1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1608 )

* 1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans ( d. 1660 )

*** House of Bourbon-Montpensier ( 1477 – 1608 )

* 1608 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier ( d. 1670 )

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* 1608 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer ( d. 1697 )

* 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician ( d. 1666 )

* Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1608 – 1657 )

In 1589, he received the valuable appointment of reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, although he did not formally take office until 1608 – a post which was worth £ 16, 000 a year.

* 1543 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine ( d. 1608 )

** 1603 – 1608: Joachim I / I / III Frederick ( Regent, also Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Elector of Brandenburg )

** 1608 – 1618: John I / III Sigismund ( Regent, also Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg ( b. 1557 )

* 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

* 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.

* 1546 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg ( d. 1608 )

* 1608 – At Ticonderoga ( now Crown Point, New York ), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs.

* 1608 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat ; his army reportedly kills 12, 000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.

* 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.

# Joachim Frederick ( 27 January 1546 – 1608 )

Joachim III Frederick () ( 27 January 1546 – 18 July 1608 ), of the House of Hohenzollern, was Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1598 until his death.

* John Frederick of Brandenburg ( 18 August 1607 – 1 March 1608 ).

* 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist ( b. 1608 )

* 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

Two inquisitions were taken after Oxford's death, the first in 1604 for his property in Essex, the second in 1608 for his Great Garden property in London.

* 1608: Hans Lippershey designs first practical telescope

In 1608, the city had its first stone church, St. John the Baptist.

* September 29 – Rene Goupil, the first of the Canadian Martyrs ( b. 1608 )

In 1608 Champlain founded what is now Quebec City, which would become the first permanent settlement and the capital of New France.

Title page of the first quarto edition, published in 1608

Derry was given its first charter by James I in 1604, but the garrison was attacked and destroyed by Cahir O ' Doherty in 1608.

The Native Americans ' first recorded encounter with Europeans in this area was in 1608, with John Smith of the Jamestown Settlement.

In 1608, according to tradition, Blackheath was the place where golf was introduced to England – the Royal Blackheath Golf Club ( based in nearby Eltham since 1923 ) was one of the first golf associations established ( 1766 ) outside Scotland.

Site of the Popham Colony, Phippsburg was — between 1607 and 1608 — the first English settlement attempted in New England.

The area now known as Dundalk was first explored by John Smith in 1608, when while conducting an expedition up the Chesapeake Bay he landed on the area known as the Patapsco Neck.

Although some would like to believe that Great Choptank Island was first charted by Captain John Smith in 1608, it cannot be so.

In October 1608, Captain Newport arrived with 70 new settlers, including the first women.

In 1650, Lilly wrote a preface to Sir Christopher Heydon's An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations, a defence of astrology written about 1608 which was first published posthumously, largely at the expense of Elias Ashmole.

* Epistles, both the first and second volumes of which appeared in 1608 and a third in 1611

Jones ’ s first recorded structural work is his monument to Lady Cotton, circa 1608, showing early signs of his classical intentions.

* Ersilia ( 1565 – 1596 ), married to Renato Borromeo, Conte di Arona ( 1555 – 1608 ), first cousin of St. Charles Borromeo, and had issue.

It was only after the death of Lyon's wife in 1608 that the construction of the first school building began.

Captain John Smith could be considered the first American author with his works: A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia ... ( 1608 ) and The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles ( 1624 ).

Hans Lippershey was credited with creating and disseminating designs for the first practical telescope — later applying to the States-General of the Netherlands on October 2, 1608, for a patent for an instrument " for seeing things far away as if they were nearby ," ( beating Jacob Metius's patent by a few weeks ).

From 1608 to 1664, the first colonists of New France followed the customary law () in effect for their province of origin in France.

He first published ( 1608 ) an edition of a work by Nilus Cabasilas, ( archbishop of Thessalonica in the 14th century ) against the primacy of the pope ( De primatu Papae ), and an edition of a similar tract by the Calabrian monk Barlaam of Seminara ( ca.

Since French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrived in 1605 and established the first permanent Canadian settlements at Port Royal and Quebec City in 1608, the country has produced its own composers, musicians and ensembles.

The first practical refracting telescopes appeared in the Netherlands about 1608, and were credited to three individuals, Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle-makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar.