Discovery of oil in Iran
1908 · Event
First commercial oil discovery in the Middle East.
On these timelines: Master, Persia and Iran
Around 1908
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)