They banded together and formed the League of Evangelical Union in 1608, under the leadership of the Elector Palatine Frederick IV ( 1583 – 1610 ), ( whose son, Frederick V, married Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I of England ).

In 1608, together with Aleksander Kleczkowski, leading his forces-a band of few hundred ragtag soldiers of fortune, mainly Lithuanians, Poles, Don Cossacks, Ruthenians, Tatars, Germans, Swedes-he defeated the armies of tsar Vasili Shuisky, led by Zakhary Lyapunov and Ivan Khovansky, near Zaraysk and captured Mikhailov and Kolomna, moving on to blockade Moscow.

Robles, the Madrid publisher, found it necessary to meet demand with a third edition, a seventh publication in all, in 1608.

He went so far in 1608 as to sign a commercial treaty with Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany containing secret military clauses.

The largest settlement was New France, with the towns of Quebec City ( 1608 ) and Montreal ( fur trading post in 1611, Roman Catholic mission established in 1639, and colony founded in 1642 ).

This practical development, mastery, and experimentation with lenses led directly to the invention of the compound optical microscope around 1595, and the refracting telescope in 1608, both of which appeared in the spectacle making centres in the Netherlands.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

When the revenue fell short of expectations in 1608, Venice introduced paper with the superscription ' AQ ' and imprinted instructions, which was to be used for ' letters to officials '.

In a second departure attempt in the spring of 1608, arrangements were made with a Dutch merchant to pick up church members along the Humber estuary at Immingham near Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

The roots of ukiyo-e can be traced to the urbanization that took place in the late 16th century that led to the development of a class of merchants and artisans who began writing stories or novels, and painting pictures, compiled in ehon ( 絵本, picture books, books with stories and picture illustrations ), such as the 1608 edition of Tales of Ise by Hon ' ami Kōetsu.

A second quarto, a reprint of Q1, was published in 1602 by Pavier ; another reprint was issued as Q3 in 1619, with a false date of 1608 — part of William Jaggard's False Folio.

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.

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.

Partially in order to pacify the restless szlachta, Sigismund supported war with Muscovy ( the Dimitriads, 1608 – 1618 ).

The letter received enough circulation to be referred to in one of James's theological essays ( 1608 ), and Bellarmine was soon fencing in a pamphlet exchange with the King of England.

* The Bloody Banquet ( 1608 – 9 ); co-written with Thomas Dekker.

The Native Americans ' first recorded encounter with Europeans in this area was in 1608, with John Smith of the Jamestown Settlement.

Recorded as Palmers grene 1608, ' village green associated with a family called Palmer ' ( mentioned in local records from the 14th century ), from the Middle English grene.

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.

Cowbridge Grammar School was founded in 1608 and had close links with Jesus College, Oxford through its later benefactor, Dr Leoline Jenkins.

In 1608, sponsored by Henry IV, Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec with 28 men, the second permanent French settlement in the colony of Canada.

In early January 1608, nearly 100 new settlers arrived with Captain Newport, and through carelessness the village was set on fire.

In October 1608, Captain Newport arrived with 70 new settlers, including the first women.

In 1650, Lilly wrote a preface to Sir Christopher Heydon's An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations, a defence of astrology written about 1608 which was first published posthumously, largely at the expense of Elias Ashmole.

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

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.

This report was issued in October 1608 and distributed across Europe, leading to experiments by other scientists, such as the Italian Paolo Sarpi, who received the report in November, the Englishman Thomas Harriot, who was using a six-powered telescope by the summer of 1609, and Galileo Galilei, who soon improved the device.

In 1608, Wilkins published a prose narrative of Pericles which contains several lines that seem to recall specific lines in the play, leading to the conclusion that his editing of the play led him to the composition of the prose.

Lippershey applied to the States-General of the Netherlands on October 2, 1608, for a patent for his instrument " for seeing things far away as if they were nearby ", beating another Dutch instrument-maker's patent, Jacob Metius, by a few weeks.

Hans Lippershey was credited with creating and disseminating designs for the first practical telescope — later applying to the States-General of the Netherlands on October 2, 1608, for a patent for an instrument " for seeing things far away as if they were nearby ," ( beating Jacob Metius's patent by a few weeks ).

A few years later, in 1608, Samuel De Champlain founded Quebec, which was to become the capital of the enormous, but sparsely settled, fur-trading colony of New France ( also called Canada ).

After a few years of continental travel ( 1605 – 1608 ), he settled at Haines Hill at Hurst in Berkshire and was employed for many years in minor public offices, eventually becoming clerk of the council.

Taranatha in his History of Buddhism in India ( dpal dus kyi ' khor lo ' i chos bskor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho ) of 1608 C. E., gives an account of the last few centuries of Buddhism, mainly in Eastern India.

Upon his remains being disinterred one hundred and thirty-seven years after, day for day ( 12 March 1608 ), his skull emitted a sweet perfume and the fingers he had most used in writing, i. e. the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, were found in a perfect state of preservation.

The Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) established trading relations with the Arakanese in 1608 after the Portuguese fell in favour due to the lack of loyalty of Portuguese mercenaries, such as Filipe de Brito e Nicote in the service of the Arakanese king.

Lord Brooke left no natural heirs, and his senior ( Brooke ) barony passed to his cousin and adopted son, Robert Greville ( 1608 – 1643 ), who took the side of Parliament part in the English Civil War, and defeated the Royalists in a skirmish at Kineton in August 1642.

It was there that the army of Vasily IV was defeated by False Dmitry II in 1608.

* 1608 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat ; his army reportedly kills 12, 000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.

In 1608, he transferred to the Swedish army where he served with distinction.

False Dmitry I and his army passed through Oryol in 1605 ; Ivan Bolotnikov in 1606 ; False Dmitry II camped in Oryol for the winter of 1607 – 1608.

The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont ( d. 1659 ), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament ; and another was William Pierrepont ( 1608 – 1679 ), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne.

He was reinforced by the Poles, and in the spring of 1608 advanced upon Moscow, routing the army of Tsar Vasily Shuiski at Bolkhov.

In 1608 – 1610, Lyapunov led the army of service class people against a peasant uprising in the Ryazan region and supporters of False Dmitriy II.