11th January » Grand Canyon National Park known as Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
12th January » A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
13th January » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
15th January » The Alpha Kappa Alpha Fraternities and sororities named sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
21st January » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
24th January » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
30th January » Mahatma Gandhi named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month.
1st February » King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza e.g Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
4th March » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
9th March » Inter Milan was founded on 'Football Club Internazionale', following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
23rd March » American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1st April » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army (United Kingdom) e.g Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
7th April » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party (UK) or Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
8th April » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
11th April » SMS e.g Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
16th April » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
20th April » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
20th May » Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
26th May » At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
27th May » Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.
18th June » Japanese Brazilians or Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos (São Paulo) known as Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
18th June » The University of the Philippines is established.
30th June » The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1st July » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
23rd July » Second Constitutional Era e.g The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottoman Empire called Ottomans.
25th July » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the University of Tokyo known as Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
26th July » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
17th August » 'Fantasmagorie (1908 film) e.g Fantasmagorie', the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
16th September » The General Motors Corporation is founded.
17th September » The Wright Model A known as Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
22nd September » The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
23rd September » University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
26th September » the Norwegian football club SK Brann was founded.
27th September » The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1st October » Ford Motor Company called Ford puts the Ford Model T named Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
6th October » Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austria-Hungary called Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking Bosnian crisis called a crisis.
14th October » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
7th November » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
22nd November » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
30th November » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154.
2nd December » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
28th December » A 1908 Messina earthquake known as magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina or Messina, Sicily, Italy killing over 75,000.