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

Anne de Pisseleu d ' Heilly ( 1508 – 1580 ), Duchess of Étampes, was the mistress of Francis I of France.

Under the leadership of Francis I, who had succeeded Louis to the throne, the French and Venetians would, through their victory at Marignano in 1515, regain the territory they had lost ; the treaties of Noyon and Brussels, which ended the war the next year, would essentially return the map of Italy to the status quo of 1508.

* Francis of Navarre ( 1508 – last mentioned in 1512 ).

* Virgin and Child with Saint Paul and Saint Francis ( 1508 – 1530 )

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 — Francisco de Almeida sailed into the deep natural harbour.

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 ).

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

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.

Calculating-Table by Gregor Reisch: Margarita Philosophica, 1508.

Turning to a more active life, Albert accompanied Emperor Maximilian I to Italy in 1508, and after his return spent some time in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Dürer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hände ( English: Praying Hands, c. 1508 Albertina, Vienna ), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.

The gaps in the text, particularly those between 1508 to 1519 and from 1520 to 1525, are likely the result of quires during a storm.

In 1508, Francesco Maria inherited the duchy thereby starting the line of Rovere Dukes of Urbino.

* 1508 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist ( d. 1567 )

* 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer ( d. 1555 )

* 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

* 1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine ( b. 1451 )

* 1508 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar ( b. 1459 )

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.

At the beginning of 1508 Bartolomeo moved to Venice to paint a Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena for the Dominicans of San Pietro Martire in Murano, influenced somewhat by Venetian colorism.

In 1508 he went to Paris on the invitation of Louis XII as professor of belles lettres, and held for a time the position of Rector of the University of Paris.

# Margarete ( b. Dresden, 7 September 1508 – d. Dresden, 19 December 1510 ).

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (; full title: Al-Sultan al -' Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu ' l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu ' llah ; OS 7 March 1508 – OS 17 January 1556 ) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 – 1540 and again from 1555 – 1556.

* Paola Gonzaga ( August 1508 – 1569 ), a nun.

* 1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of Francesco I Sforza ( d. 1508 )

1508 ); together with the so-called Capirola Lutebook, these represent the earliest stage of written lute music in Italy.

After Schlick, a string of composers developed German lute music: Hans Judenkünig ( c. 1445 – 50 – 1526 ), the Neusidler family ( particularly Hans Neusidler ( c. 1508 / 9 – 1563 )) and others.