908
This article is about the year 908. For other uses, see 908 (disambiguation).
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 | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
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 | 829–830 |
- Kali Yuga | 4008–4009 |
Holocene calendar | 10908 |
Iranian calendar | 286–287 |
Islamic calendar | 295–296 |
Japanese calendar | Engi 8 (延喜8年) |
Javanese calendar | 807–808 |
Julian calendar | 908 CMVIII |
Korean calendar | 3241 |
Minguo calendar | 1004 before ROC 民前1004年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −560 |
Seleucid era | 1219/1220 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1450–1451 |
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Year 908 (CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
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.
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, bishop of Würzburg.
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)
References
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