1608
Champlain Founds Quebec
With twenty-eight men and a small fortified storehouse beneath the cliff at the narrowing of the Saint Lawrence, Samuel de Champlain laid out the Habitation…
Lippershey Applies for Telescope Patent
A German-Dutch spectacle-maker named Hans Lippershey submitted to the States-General in The Hague a device of two lenses in a tube that made distant objects…
John Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
According to his own later account, the Jamestown adventurer John Smith was spared execution at a Powhatan feast when the chief's young daughter Matoaka…
El Greco Paints View of Toledo
The aging Cretan-born painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known in Spain as El Greco, produced an almost hallucinatory landscape of the Castilian city…
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Frequently asked
What happened in the year 1608?
Saeculum lists 4 events from 1608. The most significant is Champlain Founds Quebec.
What era was 1608 part of?
1608 falls within the Renaissance (1501-1650). Reformation, conquest, and the world drawn whole.
Which regions saw notable events in 1608?
The events from 1608 span North America and Europe.