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.

( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.

However the city's neutrality and its position between the possessions of the Habsburg Empire and France made it the venue of several international negotiations, including the League of Cambrai, an alliance engineered in 1508 by Pope Julius II against the Republic of Venice.

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.

They were first invented by Hans Burgkmair in Germany in 1508, and first made in Italy by Ugo da Carpi before 1516.

In 1508, de León made several visits to Mona Island to gather goods and food from the Taínos residing there.

Serious charges were made regarding her orthodoxy, culminating in four trials between 1508 and 1510.

In Europe, they were made in Italy from 1470, Belgium 1508, England 1544, Holland 1566, Germany 1573 and France 1613.

* Sir Edward Brampton ( c. 1440 – 1508 ), a godson of King Edward IV, he was made the Governor of Guernsey

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.

He was made general procurator in 1507 and general of his order a year later in 1508.

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 ).

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

* 1508: Maximilian I the last ruling " King of the Romans " and the first " elected Emperor of the Romans ".

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.

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 ).

Primož Trubar or Primož Truber () ( 1508 – 28 June 1586 ) was the author of the first Slovene language printed book, the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of the Slovene Lands, notable for consolidating the Slovene language.

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.

The first edition of these two works is the Aldine edition ( Rhetores Graeci, Venice, 1508, fol., vol.

He was born at Toulouse about 1508, and practised as a lawyer first at Bourges, afterwards at Toulouse.

The first among Jewish codifiers to mention the custom was Mahari Minz ( d. 1508 at Venice ).

* 1586-Primož Trubar, author of the first printed books in the Slovene language ( born 1508 )

The first printed book, a prayer book in Slavonic, was produced in Wallachia in 1508 and the first book in Romanian, a catechism, was printed in Transylvania, in 1544.

* June 28-Primož Trubar, author of the first printed book in the Slovenian language ( born 1508 )

, also known as Ashikaga Yoshiki ( 足利 義材 ), was the 10th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who headed the shogunate first from 1490 to 1493 and then again from 1508 to 1521 during the Muromachi period of Japan.

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.

Several of Dunbar's poems were included in the Chepman and Myllar prints of 1508, the first books to be printed in Scotland.

The first book printed in Romania was a Slavonic religious book in 1508.

The elaborate Baroque structure was demolished, as was the nearby church of St. John the Precursor, built by Aloisio the New in 1508 in place of the first church constructed in Moscow.

In 1508, only 16 years after the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, Thomas Auber, who was likely part of a fishing trip near Newfoundland, brought back a few Amerindians to France.

The British justified the seizure by claiming that John Cabot ( c. 1450 – c. 1508 ), an Italian under the sponsorship of the English King Henry VII, had been the first to discover the place, though it likely was to assert control over the profitable North Atlantic trade.

William Turner (? 1508 – 7 to 1568 ) was an English naturalist, botanist, and theologian who studied at Cambridge University to eventually became known as the “ father of English botany ” achieving botanical notoriety through his 1538 publication Libellus de re Herbaria Novus, which was the first essay on scientific botany in English.

The Town Hall is first mentioned in 1508.

* 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.

In 1508, events so favoured the plans of Julius that he was able to conclude the League of Cambrai with Louis XII, King of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Ferdinand II, King of Aragon.

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.

Under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted of the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512.

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.

Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508 to repaint the vault, or ceiling, of the Chapel.

In 1508 Pope Julius II summoned artists to Rome, including Signorelli, Perugino, Pinturicchio and Il Sodoma to paint the large rooms in the Vatican Palace.

Meanwhile, Pope Julius II was more concerned with curbing the territorial expansion of the Republic of Venice, and in 1508 formed the League of Cambrai, in which France, the Papacy, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire agreed to restrain the Venetians.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, is a painting by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art.

de Lurano spent time in Rome in the first decade of the 16th century, but the exact years are not known ; he wrote music for a wedding of the niece of Pope Julius II in 1508.

Evidently he was acquainted with Avignon bishop Giuliano della Rovere, for when the bishop became Pope Julius II Carpentras went with him to Rome, where he sang in the papal chapel ; he was listed in a roll of the singers there in 1508.

Pope Alexander VI in 1493 and later Pope Julius II in 1508 gave the crown extensive authority over this domain with the goal of converting the Indians to Catholicism.

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Pope Julius II gave Frascati as a feudal possession to the condottiero Marcantonio I Colonna, who lived there from 1508 together with his wife Lucrezia della Rovere ( 1485 – 1552 ), niece of Pope Julius II.

Encina was appointed Archdiaconate of Malaga Cathedral by Julius II in 1508.