WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1608
Find out what all happened January to December 1608

At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years. (30. July 1608)

Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain. (3. July 1608)

John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia. (10. September 1608)

Susenyos was formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. (18. March 1608)

Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. (7. January 1608)

Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec. (3. June 1608)

The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen. (14. May 1608)

Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men. (17. January 1608)

The first official English representative to India lands in Surat. (24. August 1608)