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1608| 1606–1657 | Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Hungary, Transylvania [treaties] | The 1606 peace treaties between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires lead to half a century of peace and stability in Hungary; no major campaigns are fought between the two, though frontier skirmishes and raids are endemic, and Transylvania develops into a rich regional power. | | 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1608 | England [plays] | The play The Revenger's Tragedy (probably by the English dramatist Cyril Tourneur) is published. It is one of the finest of the Jacobean ‘revenge tragedies’. | | 25 June 1608 | Habsburg Monarchy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [treaties] | The Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II is compelled by the advance of an archducal army into Bohemia to cede Austria, Hungary, and Moravia to his brother Archduke Matthias of Austria and to promise him the succession to Bohemia in the Treaty of Lieben. | | 9 December 1608 | England [births and deaths] | John Milton, English poet, scholar, historian, and republican whose best-known work is Paradise Lost (1667), born in London, England (–1674). |
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