# Ursula ( 25 September 1450 – 25 October 1508, Breslau ), married Duke Henry I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels.

Alfonso and Lucrezia Borgia's son Ercole d ' Este II ( 1508 – 1559 ) married Renée of France, daughter of Louis XII of France.

* Joan Howard ( died 1508 ), married in 1481 Sir John Timperley of Hintlesham, Suffolk.

About 1508, he married Margaret's niece, Anne Browne ( d. 1511 ), daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Standard Bearer of England 1485 and Lady Lucy Neville, daughter of the Marquess of Montagu.

* François d ' Orléans-Longueville ( 1447 – 1491 ), Count of Dunois, Tancarville, Longueville, and Montgomery, Baron of Varenguebec, Viscount of Melun, Chamberlain of France, Governor of Normandy and the Dauphiné, Constable and Chamberlain of Normandy, married 2 July 1466 to Agnès de Savoie ( 1445 – 1508 )

# Anne ( 30 October 1492 – 18 October 1562, Casale Monferrato ), Lady of la Guerche, married 31 August 1508 in Blois William IX of Montferrat

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

The domed Renaissance church of Santa Maria della Consolazione ( begun in 1508 ), located on the flank of the city hill, just outside the walls, is often attributed, although without sufficient reason, to Bramante.

Bartholomew Columbus is known to have fathered an illegitimate daughter, named Maria and born in 1508.

The chapel was the seat of the parish of Santa Maria Maior until 1508, when the Church of the Sé Catedral was completed, and the parishioners were obligated to transfer there for services.

George's second wife was Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels ( 1508 – 1531 ), daughter of Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels ; their marriage produced two daughters:

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

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

* By Lady Janet Stewart ( 1508 – 1563 ), the illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland:

He performed a similar office for the Flemish ambassadors who came to England in 1508 to conclude the projected marriage of Henry's daughter Mary to Prince Charles of Castile, and some time before the king's death became controller of the household.

* 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.

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

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.

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 ).

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

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.

Therefore, they could not technically claim the title Emperor of the Romans, but were mere " Emperors-elect of the Romans ", as Maximilian named himself in 1508 with papal approval.

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.

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

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.

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 )

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.

In 1509 Cranach went to the Netherlands, and painted the Emperor Maximilian and the boy who afterwards became Emperor Charles V. Until 1508 Cranach signed his works with his initials.

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.

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 ).

European woodcut prints with coloured blocks were invented in Germany in 1508 and are known as chiaroscuro woodcuts ( see below ).

Around 1508, having inherited his father's wealth, Colet formed his plan for the re-foundation of St Paul's School, which he completed in 1512, and endowed with estates of an annual value of £ 122 and upwards.

The Governors held Parliament with a small group of senior barristers ; in 1508, for example, Parliament was held with three Governors and four senior barristers.

In 1508, with the support of Ōuchi Yoshioki, Yoshitane regained the position of Seii Taishogun from Yoshizumi.

Using the pretext of revenge for the murder of Robert Kerr, a Warden of the Scottish East March who had been killed by John " The Bastard " Heron in 1508, James invaded England with an army of about 30, 000 men in 1513.

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.

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.

* Madonna with Child and Saints Flavian and Onuphrius ( 1508 ).

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