1608

Events

• March 18 - Sissinios formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia
• July 3 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat.
• October 2 - Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament
• Swedish troops enter Moscow
• First cheques come to use in Netherlands
• Jesuits take over in Paraguay

Births

• July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
• December 9 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)

Deaths

• December - John Dee

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