From 1608 until late 1637, tenants of the parish's Westcourt Manor included William Carpenter and his namesake son, both of whom emigrated to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1638 on the Bevis from Southampton.

John Oxenbridge ( 30 January 1608 – 28 December 1674 ) was an English Nonconformist divine, who emigrated to New England.

* 1607 – 1608, in North America, ice persisted on Lake Superior until June.

The first Poles in North America arrived at the Virginia Colony in 1608.

He never came back to the New World but he sent Champlain to open a colony at Quebec in 1608, thus playing a major role in the foundation of the first permanent French colony in North America.

The French language established itself permanently on the North America continent with the foundation of Quebec City by Samuel de Champlain in 1608.

Despite the delivery of supplies in 1608 on the First and Second Supply missions of Captain Christopher Newport, it seemed certain, at that time, that without a major relief effort, the colony at Jamestown would meet the same fate as two earlier failed English attempts to settle in North America, the Roanoke Colony and the Popham Colony.

Developed in French-settled areas of North America beginning with the founding of Quebec in 1608 and New Orleans, Louisiana in 1718, as well as along the Mississippi River valley to Missouri.

* 1608 – 1755: The war for control of North America between the British and French

* 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

* 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

* 1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.

Coke's discussion of natural law appears in his report of Calvin's Case ( 1608 ): " The law of nature is that which God at the time of creation of the nature of man infused into his heart, for his preservation and direction.

* 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.

With a licence to distil Irish whiskey from 1608, the Old Bushmills Distillery in the north coast of Ireland is the oldest licenced whiskey distillery in the world.

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An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

In 1608 Champlain founded what is now Quebec City, which would become the first permanent settlement and the capital of New France.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare has published separate editions of Q and F ; the most recent Pelican Shakespeare edition contains both the 1608 Quarto and the 1623 Folio text as well as a conflated version ; the New Arden edition edited by R. A. Foakes is not the only recent edition to offer the traditional conflated text.

There is no external evidence for this hypothesis, however, and the title page of the 1608 quarto refers to a " lately acted " deposition scene ( although, again, this could be due to earlier censorship ).

* Minotaur-The Island by David Young and Margaret Cameron, is an opera that reimagines the 1608 lost opera by Monteverdi L ' Adrianna.

George Chapman's The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron ( 1608 ) was censored when it appeared on the stage, and caused a scandal when the players violated that censorship ; Buck has been associated with the scandal, and it is certainly true that Buck licensed the publication of the censored text later in that year.

The flagship of the Virginia Company, the Sea Venture is believed to have been built there in 1608.

* Poet John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) is said to have lived for a time near Kedermister Library in Langley < sup >- see Talk: Langley, Berkshire # John Milton | talk page .</ sup >

It is set in the medieval era ( inspired by Caravaggio's Burial of St. Lucy ( 1608 )), yet has people using modern technological gadgets.

Jones ’ s first recorded structural work is his monument to Lady Cotton, circa 1608, showing early signs of his classical intentions.

The year of Jin's birth is unclear, with some sources reporting 1610 and others 1608.

There is a note from 1608, where in Annibale stipulates to a pupil that he will spend at least two hours a day in his studio.

Hans Lippershey is generally credited with the earliest recorded design for an optical telescope ( a refracting telescope ) in 1608, although it is unclear if he invented it.

The notion dates from at least 1608, as recorded in Coke's Report of Calvin's Case, wherein it is said " that moral law, honora patrem ... doubtless doth extend to him that is pater patriœ.

The Compendium Maleficarum ( 1608 ), by Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, Guaccius is a book published by an Italian priest with some illustrations of what he imagined could be a Sabbat, and gives a description of it ; a brief summary can be cited as an example: " the attendants go riding flying goats, trample the cross, are made to be re-baptised in the name of the Devil, give their clothes to him, kiss the Devil's behind, and dance back to back forming a round ".

In his Declaration of Sentiments ( 1608 ) Arminius gave twenty arguments against supralapsarianism, which he said applied also to sublapsarianism.

Schilder, an expert on Dutch cartography, said Carolus merely copied both coastlines from earlier charts, while he believed that Plancius had copied some names from a chart by Mouris Willemsz, unknown to Wielder, that was published in 1608 or earlier by Cornelis Claeszoon ( British Library, London ).

According to George Percy's 1608 account, Wowinchapuncke indicated that he would grant the settlers " as much land as we would desire to take ," although later historians contend that it is highly dubious that he would have said any such thing.

The play's brevity and certain aspects of its staging ( for instance, the large proportion of night-time scenes and the unusually large number of off-stage sounds ) have been taken as suggesting that the text now extant was revised for production indoors, perhaps at the Blackfriars Theatre, which the King's Men acquired in 1608.

" The plays written after Shakespeare's company began using the Blackfriars in 1608, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale for instance, have what most ... of the earlier plays do not have: a carefully planned five-act structure ".

If new Shakespearean plays were being written especially for presentation at the Blackfriars ' theatre after 1608, they could not have been written by Edward de Vere.

Peter Rothe ( Petrus Roth ), in his book Arithmetica Philosophica ( published in 1608 ), wrote that a polynomial equation of degree n ( with real coefficients ) may have n solutions.

Antony and Cleopatra was entered in the Stationers ' Register ( an early form of copyright for printed works ) in May 1608, but it does not seem to have been actually printed until the publication of the First Folio in 1623.

It was part of the Anacostan chiefdom, centered on the lower Anacostia River near present-day Washington, D. C. ( John Smith visited them in 1608 ); the Anacostans were organized under the Piscataway paramount chiefdom ( not part of the Powhatan alliance ), which by the 1630s claimed to have had thirteen successive rulers.

( Drayton may have preferred the role of impresario to that of playwright ; he was one of the lessees of the Whitefriars Theatre when it was started in 1608.

The 1605 edition changes " Curtain " to " Mundo " ( that is, Globe ); only in 1608 was he credited by name, though the earlier title pages would have sufficed to identify him for Londoners.

Champlain wrote of a youth who had been living in New France since 1608, and whom many believe to have been young Brûlé.

In 1608 Day published two comedies, Law Tricks, or Who Would have Thought it?

Furthermore, textual analysis of the play have led it to be placed as near contemporaneous with All's Well That Ends Well and Coriolanus, which would confirm a date of 1607 – 1608.

Critics also suggest that the regular act intervals indicate that it could have been written for the indoor Blackfriars Theatre, which Shakespeare's company acquired in 1608.

“ Timon of Athens ” is believed to have first been performed between 1607 and 1608, whereas the text is believed to have first been printed in 1623 as a part of the First Folio.

Johnston is thought to have begun his university studies at one, or both, of the colleges at Aberdeen, but around 1608 he went to Italy and received an M. D.

It can be noted that the attainder of these titles in 1614 — six years after Earl of Tyrconnell ’ s death in Rome in 1608 — can hardly have been considered legitimate, at least in continental Catholic countries of the day.

Maghnus and Cathbharr are known to have been dead by September 1608, while a poem written in the same month addresses Mairghead and Máire.

In that respect it must have resembled Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One, from c. 1608 – 13, a play in the John Fletcher canon in which Fletcher wrote the last two parts of the quartet, while another playwright, most likely Nathan Field, wrote the others.

Coriolanus () is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.

Another possible connection with 1608 is that the surviving text of the play is divided into acts ; this suggests that it could have been written for the indoor Blackfriars Theatre, at which Shakespeare's company began to perform in 1608 ; however, the act-breaks could instead have been introduced later.