1608

January 11: Jamestown's John Smith released from imprisonment by Chief Powhatan
July 3: Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City.
1608 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1608
MDCVIII
Ab urbe condita2361
Armenian calendar1057
ԹՎ ՌԾԷ
Assyrian calendar6358
Balinese saka calendar1529–1530
Bengali calendar1014–1015
Berber calendar2558
English Regnal year5 Ja. 1 – 6 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2152
Burmese calendar970
Byzantine calendar7116–7117
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4305 or 4098
    — to —
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4306 or 4099
Coptic calendar1324–1325
Discordian calendar2774
Ethiopian calendar1600–1601
Hebrew calendar5368–5369
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1664–1665
 - Shaka Samvat1529–1530
 - Kali Yuga4708–4709
Holocene calendar11608
Igbo calendar608–609
Iranian calendar986–987
Islamic calendar1016–1017
Japanese calendarKeichō 13
(慶長１３年)
Javanese calendar1528–1529
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3941
Minguo calendar304 before ROC
民前304年
Nanakshahi calendar140
Thai solar calendar2150–2151
Tibetan calendarམེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
1734 or 1353 or 581
    — to —
ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Monkey)
1735 or 1354 or 582

1608 (MDCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1608th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 608th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1608, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

  • January 2 – The first of the Jamestown supply missions returns to the Colony of Virginia with Christopher Newport commanding the John and Francis and the Phoenix bringing about 100 new settlers to supplement the 38 survivors he finds at Jamestown.
  • January 7 – At Jamestown, Virginia, fire destroys "all the houses in the fort"; the fort is repaired in March.
  • January 11 – John Smith is released by Powhatan after 15 days of captivity, and arrives back at Jamestown the next day. [1] Upon his return, instead of being welcomed, he is charged with negligence for the deaths of the two men with him at the time of his capture, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery, but later exonerated.
  • January 17 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia defeats an Oromo army at Ebenat; 12,000 Oromo are reportedly killed at a cost of 400 Amhara.
  • January 23 – Treaty of The Hague, a defensive alliance between France and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, is signed.[2]
  • February 6 – Gabriel Báthory makes an agreement with Hungarian mercenary soldiers, the Hajduk, in order to overthrow the government of Transylvania.
  • February 7 – A peace conference opens at the Binnenhof at The Hague, in the Netherlands, to end a war between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium).
  • February 14 – The brutal winter of 1607-1608 in England ends after 10 weeks of sub-freezing temperatures.
  • February 18 – Don Julius Caesar d'Austria, the illegitimate son of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, brutally murders his girlfriend, Markéta Pichlerová, then dismembers her body. Emperor Rudolf imprisons Julius for the rest of his life. [3]
  • February 26 – After being held captive in Morocco for more than 13 years, popular professor Malian Ahmad Baba is able to return to Timbuktu on 10 Dhu 'l-Qa'da 1016 A.H.
  • March 5 – Sigismund Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania, abdicates in favor of Gabriel Báthory in order to avoid a civil war.
  • March 16 – Gwanghaegun becomes the new King of Korea upon the death of his father, King Seonjo, who had reigned for more than 40 years.
  • March 18 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia, at the ancient city of Axum.[4]

April–June

July–September

October–December

  • October 1 – The second of the Jamestown supply missions, which set out in July from England, arrives at Jamestown, Virginia, with Christopher Newport commanding the Mary and Margaret carrying 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include two women and some skilled artisans, mostly from continental Europe, to develop industries.[8]
  • October 2 – Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch Parliament.
  • November 19 – In Budapest, the coronation ceremonies take place for Matthias to be crowned as King Mátyás II of Hungary.
  • November 20 – Sir Thomas Gates, Governor of the London Company's colony at Jamestown, Virginia, is ordered by the Board of Directors to forcibly convert the native Indians in the area to Christianity as Anglicans.
  • November 30 – At the colony of Portuguese Macau, a port on the Chinese mainland leased from the Chinese Empire, a group of 100 Japanese samurai, wielding katana and muskets engage in a fight with musket-armed Portuguese soldiers commanded by Governor André Pessoa. [9] Around 50 Japanese are killed and the others are imprisoned until they sign an affidavit blaming themselves for the incident. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the principal shogun of Japan, subsequently ends the "red seal ships" program of authorizing Japanese nationals to visit Macau. The incident eventually leads to much larger naval battle in 1610, the Nossa Senhora da Graça incident.
  • December 13 – At the Morača monastery in Kolašin, in what is now the nation of Montenegro, Patriarch Jovan Kantul assembles the rebel leaders of Montenegro and Herzegovina. The group agrees with a representative of the Duchy of Savoy to deliver Duke Charles Emmanuel a monarchy within the Balkans, in return for special privileges to the Serbian Orthodox Church.
  • December 20 – Karl of the House of Liechtenstein founds the Principality of Liechtenstein within the Holy Roman Empire, an independent nation that will continue more than 400 years later between Austria and Switzerland.
  • December – Jamestown supply missions: Christopher Newport returns to England from Jamestown carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."

Date unknown

  • Spring – The Scrooby Congregation of Protestant English Separatists successfully flees to the Dutch Republic from the Humber, origin of the Pilgrim Fathers who in 1620 move on to North America.
  • The first cheques are used in the Dutch Republic.
  • The Uniform Land-Tax Law is imposed in Korea.
  • Five royal schools in Ulster are given a Royal Charter by King James I.

Births

John Tradescant the Younger born 4 August
John Milton born 9 December

January–March

  • January 10 – Henry Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company (d. 1630)
  • January 14 – Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, English politician (d. 1684)
  • January 21 – Theaurau John Tany, English Christian mystic (d. 1659)
  • January 26 – Johannes Heinrich Ursinus, German Lutheran scholar (d. 1667)
  • January 28 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
  • January 30 – John Oxenbridge, English Nonconformist divine (d. 1674)
  • February 5 – Gaspar Schott, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1666)
  • February 6 – António Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
  • February 12 – Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (d. 1685)
  • February 20 – Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (d. 1649)
  • February 21 – Elizabeth Barnard, Granddaughter of William Shakespeare (d. 1670)
  • March 18 – Paul Ragueneau, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1680)
  • March 27 – Thomas Rouse, English politician (d. 1676)
  • March 28 – Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny, French politician (d. 1652)

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, English churchman (d. 1691)
  • Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (d. 1645)
  • Ayşe Sultan and/or Hanzade Sultan, Ottoman princesses, daughters of Ahmed I

Deaths

Tsugaru Tamenobu died 29 March
Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg died 29 January
Francis Caracciolo died 4 June
Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg died 18 July
Maria Pypelinckx died 19 October

January–March

  • January 4 – Peter Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1536)
  • January 18 – Jacques Couet, French pastor (b. 1546)
  • January 19 – Bernard Maciejowski, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1548)
  • January 28 – Enrique Henríquez, Portuguese theologian (b. 1536)
  • January 29 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, son of George of Mömpelgard and his wife Barbara of Hesse (b. 1557)
  • February 13 – Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
  • February 13 – Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (b. 1527)
  • February 26 – John Still, English Bishop of Bath and Wells, famed as a preacher (b. c. 1543)
  • February 27 – Henri, Duke of Montpensier, French noble (b. 1573)
  • March 12 – Kōriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
  • March 16 – Seonjo of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1552)
  • March 29
    • Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (b. 1539)
    • Tsugaru Tamenobu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1550)

April–June

  • April 8 – Magdalen Dacre, English noble (b. 1538)
  • April 9 – Pomponio Torelli, Italian writer (b. 1539)
  • April 18 – Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1542)
  • April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
  • April 29 – Maria Anna of Bavaria (b. 1551)
  • May 11 – Giovanni Luca Conforti, Italian composer and singer (b. 1560)
  • May 14 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1542)
  • May 15 – Archibald Napier, Scottish landowner (b. 1534)
  • May 22 – Juan Bautista Villalpando, Spanish architect and mathematician (b. 1552)
  • June 1 – Marie Eleonore of Cleves, Duchess consort of Prussia (1573–1608) (b. 1550)
  • June 4 – Francis Caracciolo, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1563)
  • June 5 – Ippolito Andreasi, Italian painter (b. 1548)
  • June 19
    • Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
    • Johann Pistorius, German historian (b. 1546)[14]

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545)

References

  1. ^ Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of this Nation, Written from the Records Then (1624) Concealed by the Council, Rather Than from the Histories Then Licensed by the Crown (Houghton, 1898) p.55
  2. ^ de Raxis de Flassan, Gaëtan (1811). Histoire générale et raisonnée de la diplomatie française ou de la politique de la France depuis la fondation de la monarchie jusqu'à la fin du règne de Louis XVI. Vol. 2. Paris: Treuttel et Würtz. p. 258 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Don Julius D'Austria and His Fate", Český Krumlov website
  4. ^ Philip Caraman (1985). The Lost Empire: The Story of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1555-1634. Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-283-99254-4.
  5. ^ Samuel Lythe, The Economy of Scotland in Its European Setting, 1550-1625 (Edinburgh, 1960), pp. 55-6.
  6. ^ Francis L. Hawks, The Adventures of Henry Hudson (D. Appleton & Company, 1842) p.37
  7. ^ Arthur M. Woodford (1991). Charting the Inland Seas: A History of the U.S. Lake Survey. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8143-2499-8.
  8. ^ Grass, Gary C. (2000). "First Germans at Jamestown". German Corner. Davitt Publications. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  9. ^ C. R. Boxer, Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1770 (Martinus Nijhoff, 1948) p. 53
  10. ^ Academic American Encyclopedia. Aretê Publishing Company. 1980. p. 446. ISBN 9780933880443.
  11. ^ Raymond Renard Butler (1947). Scientific Discovery. English Universities Press. p. 194.
  12. ^ East Riding Antiquarian Society (Yorkshire) (1904). The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society. The Society. p. 92.
  13. ^ Joseph Milton French (1966). The Life Records of John Milton: 1608-1639. Gordian Press. p. 1.
  14. ^ Günther, Hans-Jürgen, Der Humanist Johannes Pistorius – Gründer des „Gymnasium Illustre“ zu Durlach, Markgrafen-Gymnasium Karlsruhe Durlach, Jahresbericht 1993/94, Durlach 1994.
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