Early sources: river Ilfing ( 890 ), Castrum de Elbingo quod a nomine fluminis Elbingum appellavit ( 1237 — Peter of Dusburg, Chronicon terrae Prussiae ), in Elbingo ( 1239 ), in Elbing ( 1242 ), in Elbinge ... fluvium Elbinc ( 1246, city charter ), de Elbingo ( 1250 ), in Elbyngo ( 1258 ), vitra Elbingum ( 1263 ), Elvingo ( 1293 ), in Elbingo ( 1300 ), in Elvingo ( 1389 ), czum Elbinge ( 1392 ), czu Elbing ( 1403 ), Elwing ( 1410 ), czum Elwinge ( 1412 ), Elbing ( 1414 – 1438 ), Elbyang ( before 1454 ), Elbing ( 1508 ), ku Elbiągowi ( 1634 ), w Elblągu ( 1661 ), w Elblągu ( 1661 ).

Following an unsuccessful Habsburg invasion of Venice in the prelude to the War of the League of Cambrai, the Venetians occupied Trieste again in 1508, and under the terms of the peace were allowed to keep the city.

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 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.

From 1508 to 1517, the city was in the power of the Emperor Maximilian I.

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.

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.

In 1508, he became the city physician.

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

Livio Agresti ( 1508 – 1580 ), also called Ritius or Ricciutello, was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance or Mannerist period, active both in his native city of Forlì and in Rome, where he died.

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

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.

* 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

The duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro Sforza ( 1452 – 1508 ), agreed to the marriage, which was held in the presence of Leonardo da Vinci, and encouraged the launch of the new cake-like bread: Pan de Toni ( or Toni's bread ).

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

Since it was customary for the attendant company to mark every year of the deceased's life in numbers, this implies she was born in 1508, or 1507 and she had not yet celebrated her 30th birthday.

Conrad Celtes ( or Celtis ), also Konrad Celtis and Latin Conradus Celtis ( 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508 ), was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and Neo-Latin poet.

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 ).

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

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.

Hatshepsut (; also Hatchepsut ; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies ; 1508 – 1458 BC ) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

The enormous red-brick kremlin, one of the strongest and earliest preserved citadels in Russia, was built in 1508 – 1511 under the supervision of Peter the Italian.

He was also in the years 1505 to 1508 the President of Queens ' College.

In 1508, Częstochowa was allowed to organize one fair a year ; in 1564, the number of fairs was increased to three annually, and in 1639 to six.

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.

Engraving of a crowned Ptolemy being guided by the muse Astronomy, from Margarita Philosophica by Gregor Reisch, 1508.

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

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.

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.

* 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

In 1508 Michelangelo's image of the Israelites deliverance from the plague of serpents by the creation of the bronze serpent on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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.

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.