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1508 ( MDVIII ) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1508th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 508th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 16th century, and the 9th year of the 1500s decade.
In 1508, Ponce de León made his second expedition to the island the Spanish called San Juan Bautista, the first official expedition granted by King Ferdinand II. Some accounts note an initial unofficial expedition in 1506. With fifty men, he left Hispaniola on July 12, 1508 and anchored in San Juan Bay.
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Historical Map of North America & the Caribbean (8 August 1508 - Colonization of Puerto Rico: In 1508 the Spanish explorer Ponce de León led an expedition from Santo Domingo to colonize the adjacent island of San Juan Bautista (Puerto Rico).
The Abbasid Caliphate [2] was the third of the four greatest Islamic caliphates of the Arab Empire. It overthrew the Umayyad caliphs from all but Al-Andalus. It was built by the descendant of Muhammad 's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib. It was created in Harran in 750 of the Christian era and shifted its capital in AD 762 from Harran ...
- Early Abbasid era, (750–861), Middle Abbasid era, (861–936), Later Abbasid era, (936–1258)
- Caliphate
- Classical Arabic (central administration); various regional languages
- Sunni Islam
unknown date. The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (died c. 1505), is published in Castilian at Zaragoza. [2] Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh in Yiddish. Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci 's treatise on painting.
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