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)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)