1908

1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday.

Events

• February 20 - Opening of the Ulukhanlu-Julfa railroad
• July 23 - The Young Turks seize power in the Ottoman Empire

Births

• April 1 - Armenak Nazarov, seismologist
• August 31 - William Saroyan, Armenian-American author (d. 1981)
• June 24 - Artem Alikhanyan, physicist (d.1978)
• September 20 - Catholicos Vazgen I (d.1994)
• November 18 - Viktor Hambartsumian, astrophysicist (d.1996)
• December 23 - Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer (d.2002)

Deaths

• January 5 - Smbat Shahaziz, writer (b.1840)
• February 12 - Arpiar Arpiaryan, writer and public figure (b.1851)
• June 8 - Gevorg Dodokhyan, poet (b.1830)
• July 4 - Missak Metsarents, writer (b.1886)
• August 30 - Greegor Ter-Hovhannisyan, writer (b.1854)