Boy Scouts founded
1908 · Event
Robert Baden-Powell launches the Scout movement, which spreads worldwide as the largest youth organisation.
On these timelines: England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from England
- English Civil War (1642)
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- Victorian era ends (1901)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Battle of Agincourt (1415)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Around 1908
- World War I (1914)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- 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)