Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 24 – Maximilian, King of...

The Georgian Campaign (1508) was an attack against Georgia led by Selim I who was then the governor of Trabzon. In 1507 Selim successfully defeated the...

the 1507-1508 Lithuanian-Muscovite War. To view all Muscovite-Lithuanian wars, see Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars. Lithuanian-Muscovite War (1507-1508) also known...

Events from the year 1508 in India. The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East spills over into the Indian Ocean as Battle of Chaul...

War of the Holy League and several other names, was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants...

المتوكل على الله الثالث; fl. 1508–1543) was the seventeenth Abbasid caliph of Cairo for the Mamluk Sultanate from 1508 to 1516, and again in 1517. He...

Events from the year 1508 in art. December - Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius...

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Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Ernst der Bekenner; 27 June 1497 – 11 January 1546), also frequently called Ernest the Confessor, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 1506–1508 (unfinished), Galleria Nazionale di Parma, Parma Study for Leda and the Swan (now lost), c. 1506–1508, Chatsworth House, England By 1508, Leonardo...