Major Events
- Jan 7 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
- Mar 18 Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia
- May 14 The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
- May 19 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
- May 28 Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna" premieres in Mantua
- Jun 1 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
- Jul 3 Samuel de Champlain founds city of Quebec
- Aug 13 John Smith's story of Jamestown's first days submitted for publication
- Aug 24 1st English convoy lands at Surat, India
- Sep 10 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Virginia
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Who Died in 1608
- Jan 29 Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, dies at 50
- Feb 13 Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury and builder of country houses, dies at 89
- Feb 13 Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
- Feb 26 John Still, English Bishop of Bath and Wells, dies at about 64
- Mar 12 Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
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