Tunguska event
1908 · Event
A massive airburst, probably a meteor, flattens 2,000 km2 of Siberian forest, the largest impact event in recorded history.
On these timelines: Master, Russia & the USSR
Around 1908
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Victorian era ends (1901)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Sinking of the Titanic (1912)
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premieres (1913)
- Second Boer War (1899)
- Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)