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.

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.

The latter recaptured Muscat from the Portuguese in 1650 after a colonial presence on the northeastern coast of Oman dating to 1508.

Engraving of a crowned Ptolemy being guided by the muse Astronomy, from Margarita Philosophica by Gregor Reisch, 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.

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.

In 1502, the University of Wittenberg was founded and gave a home to many important thinkers, among them Martin Luther ( Professor of Theology from 1508 ) and Philipp Melanchthon ( Professor of Greek from 1518 ).

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 ).

In 1508 – 1516, the Italian architect Aloisio the New arranged for the construction of a moat in front of the Eastern wall, which would connect the Moskva and Neglinnaya and be filled in with water from Neglinnaya.

The ceiling, commissioned by Pope Julius II and painted by Michelangelo between 1508 to 1512, has a series of nine paintings showing God's Creation of the World, God's Relationship with Mankind, and Mankind's Fall from God's Grace.

Signature of Cranach the Elder from 1508 on: winged snake with ruby ring ( as on painting of 1514 )

It had its origins in a commission that Isaac received from the Cathedral in Konstanz, Germany in April 1508 to set many of the Propers unique to the local liturgy.

The conflict is also referred to as the War of the League of Cambrai and lasted from 1508 to 1516.

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.

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 the section regarding Hispaniola, Las Casas compares the indigenous Arawaks to tame ewes and writes that when he arrived in 1508, " there were 60, 000 people living on this island, including the Indians ; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines.

They were even eaten by royalty, as a letter from a baker to Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour ( 1508 – 1537 ) confirms: "... hope this pasty reaches you in better condition than the last one ..." In his diaries written in the mid 17th century, Samuel Pepys makes several references to his consumption of pasties, for instance " dined at Sir W. Pen ’ s ... on a damned venison pasty, that stunk like a devil.

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

The Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo ( Fresco, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508 – 1512 )

* 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.

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.

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.

Among other surviving relics is his hair shirt, presented for safe keeping by Margaret Clements ( 1508 – 70 ), his adopted daughter.

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It was written by Baldassare Castiglione over the course of many years, beginning in 1508, and published in 1528 by the Aldine Press in Venice just before his death ; an English edition was published in 1561.

Witches by Hans Baldung Grien ( Woodcut, 1508 )

In 1508, Maximilian, with the assent of Pope Julius II, took the title Erwählter Römischer Kaiser (" Elected Roman Emperor "), thus ending the centuries-old custom that the Holy Roman Emperor had to be crowned by the pope.

In 1508 he was knighted by the Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor personally.

* The Tournament of the Black Lady is a short story which features the 1508 jousting tournament held by King James at Edinburgh Castle.

* The Tournament of the African Lady is a short animation that recreates the jousting tournament held by King James lV of Scotland on the 31st May 1508.

Image: Prelum Atcensianum. jpg | Prelum Ascensianum in 1508, after a woodcut by Badius

Leonardo Da Vinci is frequently credited with introducing the idea of contact lenses in his 1508 Codex of the eye, Manual D, where he described a method of directly altering corneal power by submerging the eye in a bowl of water.

Probably in 1508, in the company of captain Thomas Aubert, he embarked for the American coast on a ship called La Pensée, equipped by the shipowner Jean Ango.

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

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.

* Primož Trubar Day, on 8 June, a public holiday in Slovenia in commemoration of the birth of the founder of the Slovene literary language, who was according to some sources born on 8 June 1508

Cinthio's tale may have been based on an actual incident occurring in Venice about 1508.

Year 1508 ( MDVIII ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

* A stillborn daughter at Holyrood Palace on 15 July 1508.

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

This monumental collection of mass propers was commissioned by the Constance cathedral on April 14, 1508 and completed by Isaac and his student Ludwig Senfl by the winter of 1509.

Little progress was made on the project until in 1508 Henry VII began to take an interest in the college, most likely as a political move to legitimise his new position.

libros Pandectarum ( 1508 ), which, by the application of philology and history, had a great influence on the study of Roman law, and of Commentarii linguae Graecae ( 1529 ), an extensive collection of lexicographical notes, which contributed greatly to the study of Greek literature in France.

Although a portion of it was constructed on the southeast side beginning in 1508, work stopped after the visual effect was criticized by Michelangelo.

Having fought for the emperor Maximilian I against Venice in 1508, he inherited large estates on the Rhine, and increased his wealth and reputation by devious methods.

In 1508, it was elevated to the status of city by King Manuel I of Portugal, and in 1514 ( on completion of the Sé Cathedral ) the bishopric was headquartered in Funchal.