* Jacopo Bonfadio ( 1508 – 1550 ) was beheaded for sodomy and then his corpse was burned at the stake for heresy.

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

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

Before 1508 he had painted several altar-pieces for the Castle Church at Wittenberg in competition with Albrecht Dürer, Hans Burgkmair and others ; the duke and his brother John were portrayed in various attitudes and a number of his best woodcuts and copper-plates were published.

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.

As a result of this the entire town of Portsmouth was placed under the Greater Excommunication, an interdict which lasted until 1508, removed at the request of Bishop Fox of Winchester.

It is remarkable that monk Pachomios Roussanos ( 1508 – 1553 ), who visited the mountain area of Xanthi, mentioned that around 1550, only 6 or 9 villages had turned to Islam .. Further more the documents show that not only Islam has been spread in the area at that time, but that the Pomaks have even participated in Ottoman military operation voluntarily as is the case with the village of Shahin ( Echinos ).

This missal had been owned by the Legh family since at least 1508.

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

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.

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

In March 1508, a combined Gujarati / Egyptian force surprised a Portuguese squadron at Chaul, and only two Portuguese ships escaped.

Deprived of all the amenities of life, he spent his last years in the underground dungeon at Loches, where he died on 17 May 1508.

The university at Alcalá de Henares, now known as Complutense University of Madrid, was founded in 1500 and opened in 1508.

Nikola was born in 1508 as the son of Nikola III Zrinski and Jelena Karlović ( sister of future Croatian ban Ivan Karlović ) He distinguished himself at the siege of Vienna in 1529, and in 1542 saved the imperial army from defeat before Pest by intervening with 400 Croats, for which service he was appointed ban of Croatia.

In 1508 he as elected as Bishop of Galloway, in succession to George Vaus, but before his consecration he was chosen to succeed Robert Blackadder as Archbishop of Glasgow and was consecrated at Stirling on 15 April 1509.

In 1508, the city was captured by Selim I, who was the son of the Sultan of the Ottomans at that time, Bayezid II.

The most concrete result was the union with Rome of the Ruthenian Catholic communion, most concentrated in modern day Ukraine and Belarus ; the union was formalized at Brest in 1508.

Where he learnt engraving is unknown, but he took advantage of the works of Marcantonio Raimondi, whose motifs are reworked in Lucas ' engravings and paintings, and became highly skilled in that art at a very early age: the earliest known print by him ( Mohammed and the Murdered Monk ) dates from 1508, when he was perhaps only 14, yet reveals no trace of immaturity in inspiration or technique.

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 ).

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.

The Wittelsbach collection was begun by Duke Wilhelm IV ( 1508 – 1550 ) who ordered important contemporary painters to create several history paintings, including " The Battle of Alexander at Issus " of Albrecht Altdorfer.

In 1508, the Egyptian Mamluks, allied with the Gujarat Sultanate vanquished the Portuguese in the Battle of Chaul.

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

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.

Later, unrest started to grow and thus Manuel sent a small fleet commanded by João de Meneses to conquer the city in 1508.

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.

With rumours that James would renew the auld alliance, in April 1508 Thomas Wolsey was sent to discuss Henry VII's concerns over this.

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.

However, the accumulated leap days not reckoned in the latter two calendars add up to a whole year in just over 1508 years.

With Ōuchi Yoshioki heading to Kyoto in 1508, he secretly communicated with kokujin all over Chūgoku region to counter the powerful Ōuchi clan.

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.

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.

By 1508, after his stay in Italy, Erasmus had expanded the collection ( now called Adagiorum chiliades or " Thousands of proverbs ") to over three thousand items, many accompanied by richly annotated commentaries, some of which were brief essays on political and moral topics.

Aloisio da Milano also constructed a dam on the Neglinnaya River in 1508 and a bridge over it in 1516.

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.

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.

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

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.

First they fortified Jeddah against a possible Portuguese attack, it then passed through Aden at the tip of the Red Sea, where they received support from the Tahirid Sultan, and then, in 1508, crossed the Indian Ocean to the port of Diu, a city of at the mouth of the Gulf of Khambhat.

* Don Isaac Abrabanel ( 1437 – 1508 ), financier for Portuguese and Spanish courts

Isaac ben Judah Abrabanel ( 1437 – 1508 ), commonly referred to just as Abrabanel, was a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.

It was constantly improved from its first version in 1508, and was the counterpart of the Portuguese map, the Padrão Real.

Exemplary work, such as the English Le Morte d ' Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1408 – 1471 ), the Catalan Tirant lo Blanch, and the Spanish or Portuguese Amadis de Gaula ( 1508 ), spawned many imitators, and the genre was popularly well-received, producing such masterpiece of Renaissance poetry as Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata and other sixteenth-century literary works in the romance genre.

27 ), as part of a collection of miscellaneous accounts of Portuguese expeditions originally compiled in 1508 by Lisbon-based German printer known as Valentinus Moravus ( or in Portuguese, as " Valentim Fernandes ").

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 ).

Through the strategy of a Jewish physician the Portuguese in 1508 succeeded in conquering the old seaport town of Safi, which had a large number of Jewish inhabitants and which, chiefly through them, had become an important commercial center.