Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 1908 MCMVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2661 |
Armenian calendar | 1357 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6658 |
Bahá'í calendar | 64–65 |
Bengali calendar | 1315 |
Berber calendar | 2858 |
British Regnal year | 7 Edw. 7 – 8 Edw. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2452 |
Burmese calendar | 1270 |
Byzantine calendar | 7416–7417 |
Chinese calendar |
丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4604 or 4544 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4605 or 4545 |
Coptic calendar | 1624–1625 |
Discordian calendar | 3074 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1900–1901 |
Hebrew calendar | 5668–5669 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1964–1965 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1829–1830 |
- Kali Yuga | 5008–5009 |
Holocene calendar | 11908 |
Igbo calendar | 908–909 |
Iranian calendar | 1286–1287 |
Islamic calendar | 1325–1326 |
Japanese calendar |
Meiji 41 (明治41年) |
Javanese calendar | 1837–1838 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4241 |
Minguo calendar | 4 before ROC 民前4年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 440 |
Thai solar calendar | 2450–2451 |
1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter ED) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 908th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1908, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
According to NASA reports, 1908 was the coldest recorded year since 1880.