908
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 870s 880s 890s – 900s – 910s 920s 930s |
| Years: | 905 906 907 – 908 – 909 910 911 |
| 908 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 908 CMVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1661 |
| Armenian calendar | 357 ԹՎ ՅԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5658 |
| Bengali calendar | 315 |
| Berber calendar | 1858 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1452 |
| Burmese calendar | 270 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6416–6417 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3604 or 3544 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3605 or 3545 |
| Coptic calendar | 624–625 |
| Discordian calendar | 2074 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 900–901 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4668–4669 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 964–965 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 830–831 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4009–4010 |
| Holocene calendar | 10908 |
| Iranian calendar | 286–287 |
| Islamic calendar | 295–296 |
| Japanese calendar | Engi 8 (延喜８年) |
| Julian calendar | 908 CMVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3241 |
| Minguo calendar | 1004 before ROC 民前1004年 |
| Seleucid era | 1219/1220 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1450–1451 |
Year 908 (CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- May 15 – Patriarch Euthymius I of Constantinople crowns the infant Constantine VII as co-emperor.
Europe
- The Battle of Belach Mugna is fought in Ireland.
- August 2 – An invading Hungarian army defeats the Thuringian army of margrave Burchard, in the Battle of Eisenach, killing him, together with count Egino and Rudolf the bishop of Würzburg.
Asia
- March 26 – Zhu Wen has Li Zhu, the last Tang dynasty emperor, poisoned.
- December 17 – Husayn ibn Hamdan leads an attempt to depose the newly-appointed Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad, al-Muqtadir, and install his uncle Ibn al-Mu'tazz. The plotters kill vizier al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i but fail to capture al-Muqtadir, leading to the coup's collapse.
Middle East
- Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.
Births
- date unknown
- Al-Muttaqi, Abbasid caliph in Baghdad (died 968)
- Kiyohara no Motosuke, Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman (died 990)
Deaths
- August 3
- December 17
- al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier
- Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day
- date unknown
- Al-Muktafi, Abbasid caliph
- Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz, poet and caliph of the Abbasid dynasty for a day, following the death of Al-Muktafi
- Aidi (Zhaoxuan), last emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- Yaghoub Leis, Iranian revolutionary
- Li Keyong, Shatuo Turks who laid the foundation for the Later Tang in China (b. 856)
