1608

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.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1605 1606 1607 – 1608 – 1609 1610 1611

1608 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1608 MDCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2361
Armenian calendar	1057 ԹՎ ՌԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6358
Balinese saka calendar	1529–1530
Bengali calendar	1015
Berber calendar	2558
English Regnal year	5 Ja. 1 – 6 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2152
Burmese calendar	970
Byzantine calendar	7116–7117
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4304 or 4244     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4305 or 4245
Coptic calendar	1324–1325
Discordian calendar	2774
Ethiopian calendar	1600–1601
Hebrew calendar	5368–5369
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1664–1665
- Shaka Samvat	1529–1530
- Kali Yuga	4708–4709
Holocene calendar	11608
Igbo calendar	608–609
Iranian calendar	986–987
Islamic calendar	1016–1017
Japanese calendar	Keichō 13 (慶長１３年)
Javanese calendar	1528–1529
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3941
Minguo calendar	304 before ROC 民前304年
Nanakshahi calendar	140
Thai solar calendar	2150–2151
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 1734 or 1353 or 581     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 1735 or 1354 or 582

Events

• March 18 – Sissinios formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia
• May 14 – Protestant Union founded in Auhausen.
• 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
• Quebec city is founded by Samuel De Champlain