1608 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1608?
- January 7, 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- January 17, 1608 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
- March 18, 1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- May 14, 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
- June 3, 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- July 3, 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- July 30, 1608 – 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.
- August 24, 1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- September 10, 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
Who Were Born In The Year 1608?
- January 28, 1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
- February 5, 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
- February 6, 1608 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
- April 25, 1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
- May 15, 1608 – René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
- July 13, 1608 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
- July 14, 1608 – George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
- September 20, 1608 – Jean-Jacques Olier, French catholic priest, founder of The Sulpicians (d. 1657)
- October 15, 1608 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)
- December 6, 1608 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
- December 9, 1608 – John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
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