| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 1908 by topic |
|---|
| Subject |
| By country |
| Lists of leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Works category |
| Gregorian calendar | 1908 MCMVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2661 |
| Armenian calendar | 1357 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6658 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 64–65 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1829–1830 |
| 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) 4605 or 4398 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4606 or 4399 |
| 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 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 2034 or 1653 or 881 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 2035 or 1654 or 882 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1908.
1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday 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.
This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time.[1]
- ^ Stephenson, F. R.; Morrison, L. V.; Whitrow, G. J. (1984). "Long-Term Changes in the Rotation of the Earth: 700 B.C. to A.D. 1980" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 313 (1524): 47–70. Bibcode:1984RSPTA.313...47S. doi:10.1098/rsta.1984.0082. ISSN 0080-4614. S2CID 120566848. Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2012.