2008

Clockwise from top-left: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis kills upwards of 138,373 in Myanmar and became the 7th-deadliest cyclone of all time; the 2008 Summer Olympics are held in Beijing, China whilst a series of unrest in Tibet was occurring against the games; an earthquake in Sichuan kills over 87,000 and became the 18th-deadliest earthquake of all time; a destroyed Georgian T-72 tank during the Russo-Georgian War; the Trident Hotel in Mumbai was the site of the November Mumbai attacks; the Phoenix spacecraft is the first probe to prove that ice water still exists on Mars; poster in Pristina celebrating the Independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
Millennium: 3rd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
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2008 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar2008
MMVIII
Ab urbe condita2761
Armenian calendar1457
ԹՎ ՌՆԾԷ
Assyrian calendar6758
Baháʼí calendar164–165
Balinese saka calendar1929–1930
Bengali calendar1415
Berber calendar2958
British Regnal year56 Eliz. 2 – 57 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2552
Burmese calendar1370
Byzantine calendar7516–7517
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4705 or 4498
    — to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4706 or 4499
Coptic calendar1724–1725
Discordian calendar3174
Ethiopian calendar2000–2001
Hebrew calendar5768–5769
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2064–2065
 - Shaka Samvat1929–1930
 - Kali Yuga5108–5109
Holocene calendar12008
Igbo calendar1008–1009
Iranian calendar1386–1387
Islamic calendar1428–1430
Japanese calendarHeisei 20
(平成20年)
Javanese calendar1940–1941
Juche calendar97
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4341
Minguo calendarROC 97
民國97年
Nanakshahi calendar540
Thai solar calendar2551
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2134 or 1753 or 981
    — to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2135 or 1754 or 982
Unix time1199145600 – 1230767999

2008 (MMVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.

2008 was designated as:

The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued through the entirety of 2008.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ow0tF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ United Nations General Assembly Session 60 Resolution 192. A/RES/60/192 22 December 2005. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  3. ^ United Nations General Assembly Session 60 Resolution 191. International Year of the Potato, 2008 A/RES/60/191 page 1. 22 December 2005. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
  4. ^ United Nations General Assembly Session 61 Resolution 192. A/RES/61/192 page 2. 20 December 2006. Retrieved 2007-11-13.