1608
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Arts and Science | |
| Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1608 MDCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2361 |
| Armenian calendar | 1057 ԹՎ ՌԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6358 |
| 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 |
1608 (MDCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) 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.
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