Originally used to refer to the presiding officer of a committee or governing body in Great Britain the usage was also applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the Thirteen Colonies ( originally Virginia in 1608 ); in full, the " President of the Council.

Early in 1608 Loftus was a member of the Irish Privy Council.

In 1608, when he was nineteen, he became a member of the Veliko vijece ( Great Council ).

He was the 2nd Marquis of Peñafiel, 7th Count of Ureña, Spanish Viceroy of Sicily ( 1611 – 1616 ), Viceroy of Naples ( 1616 – 1620 ), a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece since 1608, Grandee of Spain, member of the Spanish Supreme Council of War, and the subject of several poems by his friend, counselor and assistant, Francisco de Quevedo.

By January 1608, only 40 colonists were alive and Ratcliffe and the Council planned to return to England on the Discovery.

Ley was called back to England in 1608, ostensibly to brief the English Privy Council on the settlement of Ulster.

* William Christian ( Manx ) ( 1608 – 1663 ), Manx vicar and Member of the Legislative Council

At the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th, new monasteries were established in the city, including: a Capuchin monastery ( 1608 ), another on Bisemberg ( 1621 ), an Ursuline monastery ( 1634 ), and a Visitandine monastery ( 1635 ).

The monastery complex includes the Church of San Francesco, built in 1608, and rebuilt in 1785 / 86.

The monastery was active from 1608 to 1857.

Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra | Siege of 1608 – 1610: Orthodox monks led by the chronicler Avraamy Palitsyn defended the monastery against Polish-Lithuanian troops from September 1609 to January 1611.

In 1550s, a wooden palisade surrounding the cloister was replaced with 1. 5 km-long stone walls, featuring twelve towers, which helped the monastery to withstand a celebrated 16-month Polish-Lithuanian siege in 1608 – 1610.

Religious buildings include the monastery of the Concepcion, which was founded by María das Alas Pumariño ( died 1601 ), and the chapel of Ecce Homo, also called the chapel of Pity, which was built at the expense of Rodrigo Alonso Alfeirán ( died 1608 ).

He was involved in a brawl in Malta in 1608, and another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies.

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 ).

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

Year 1608 ( MDCVIII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

In 1608 – 09, the Earl of Northampton built Northumberland House on the eastern portion of the property.

Diamond or lozenge pattern diaper work from 1608 on the walls of Bank Hall, Bretherton

James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 – 1616, paid £ 1, 000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction ; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm.

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.

One of its owners was Sir Hugh Platt ( 1552 – 1608 ), author of books on gardening and practical science.

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.

* Bank Hall, a stately home in the village of Bretherton, Lancashire, UK, built in 1608, which featured on the BBC's Restoration

The area now known as Dundalk was first explored by John Smith in 1608, when while conducting an expedition up the Chesapeake Bay he landed on the area known as the Patapsco Neck.

The foundation stone was laid shortly after breakfast on 13 September 1608 ( as recorded in the college Register ), and work was complete by September 1610 ( although the battlements were added later ).

In 1608, Edmund Tilney wrote a memorandum on the Office that offers a vivid picture of its operation.

In the 17th century, the King's Pool and the Foss were in a state of decline because silt from upriver collected in the Pool, and not enough water came down to move it on, despite the main channel of the River Foss having been deepened in 1608.

* The University of Oviedo was created in 1574, but only inaugurated on September 21, 1608, the feast of Saint Matthew.

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

The eldest son of Thomas Fuller, rector of Aldwinkle St Peter's, Northamptonshire, he was born at his father's rectory and was baptised on 19 June 1608.

In 1608, Alemán emigrated to America, and is said to have carried on business as a printer in Mexico.

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.

1608 ( Embassy of the King of Siam sent to his Excellency Prince Maurice, arrived on September 10, 1608 ).

Alessandro Vittoria ( 1525 – 1608 ) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, " one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style " and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy.

Matthew's Catholic Church at 1608 Campbell Avenue in Jourdanton

After two failed attempts to settle in Acadia, in 1608, Québec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain, giving the Church a solid base in which to spread the faith to the Indigenous populations.

In the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, it is a Church of England poor boys ' school originally taught by six elderly men, ancillary to the Bedale Poor Law, founded in 1608 by John Clapham of London, a Chancery clerk for Queen Elizabeth's William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley-whose son and heir Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter held possession of neighbouring Snape, part of the larger Middleham estate which they inherited from Lord Latymer, before the Milbanks moved in from Halnaby.

He died there in October 1608 and is buried in the Church of St. Gertrude.

Roland Hynd had the Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas " re-edified " in 1608.

In 1608, the year of his accession to the throne, Prince-Elector John Sigismund, then a crypto-Calvinist, dissolved the college and the church was renamed into Supreme Parish Church of St. Trinity in Cölln.

He was educated at Lord Williams's School, Westminster School and in 1608 became a student of Christ Church, Oxford.

* Opus 1608, 1938, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Saint James United Church, 64 stops, Rebuild of Wadsworth 1888 and Warren 1909.

René Goupil ( May 15, 1608 – September 29, 1642 ) was a French missionary and one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church.