1608
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January 7 - Fire destroys
Jamestown, Virginia.
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March 18 -
Susenyos formally crowned
Emperor of
Ethiopia.
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May 14 -
Protestant Union founded in
Auhausen.
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July 3 -
Quebec City founded by
Samuel de Champlain.
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July 30 - At
Ticonderoga (now
Crown Point, New York),
Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two
Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for
French-
Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
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August 24 - The first official
English representative to
India lands at
Surat.
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October 2 -
Dutch lens maker
Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first
telescope in the
Dutch parliament.
Unknown dates
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Swedish troops enter
Moscow.
* First
cheques come to use in
Netherlands.
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Old Bushmills Distillery founded in
Bushmills,
County Tyrone,
Ireland.
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January 28 -
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (died
1679)
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February 6 -
Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (died
1697)
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April 25 -
Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d.
1660)
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July 13 -
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (died
1657)
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July 14 -
George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier (died
1657)
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October 15 -
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died
1647)
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December 6 -
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (died
1670)
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December 9 -
John Milton, English poet (died
1674)
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Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (died
1685)
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John Desborough, English soldier and politician (died
1680)
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Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat (died
1666)
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Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (died
1661)
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Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor (died
1661)
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Gaston, Duke of Orleans, third son of the French king Henry IV (died
1660)
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Edward Rainbowe, English clergyman and a preacher (died
1684)
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Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of
Mikhail I of Russia (died
1645)
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Torii Tadaharu, Japanese nobleman (died
1651)
See also :Category:1608 births.*
January 29 -
Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (born
1557)
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February 13 -
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (born
1526)
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February 13 -
Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (born
1527)
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February 26 -
John Still, English bishop
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March 12 -
Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (born
1530)
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April 19 -
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (born
1536)
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May 14 -
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (born
1543)
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June 19 -
Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b.
1551)
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July 18 -
Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b.
1546)
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October 11 -
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter
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October 19 -
Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (born
1551)
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October 19 -
Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician
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George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (born
1545)
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William Barclay, Scottish jurist (born
1546)
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Luca Bati, Italian composer (born
1546)
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William Davison, secretary to Queen
Elizabeth I of England*December -
John Dee, British mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
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John Dee, British mathematician (born
1527)
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Giambologna, Italian sculptor (born
1529)
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Bess of Hardwick, English jailor of
Mary I of Scotland (born
1520)
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Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (born
1539)
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Fiodor Nikiticz Trubczewski, Polish Prince
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Nikita Kosoj Trubczewski, Polish Prince
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Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (born
1575)
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Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (born
1565)
See also :Category:1608 deaths.
