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2008
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Clockwise from top-left: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis kills upwards of 138,373 in Myanmar and became the 7th-deadliest cyclone of all time; the 2008 Summer Olympics are held in Beijing, China whilst a series of unrest in Tibet was occurring against the games; an earthquake in Sichuan kills over 87,000 and became the 18th-deadliest earthquake of all time; a destroyed Georgian T-72 tank during the Russo-Georgian War; the Trident Hotel in Mumbai was the site of the November Mumbai attacks; the Phoenix spacecraft is the first probe to prove that ice water still exists on Mars; poster in Pristina celebrating the Independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
Calendar year
Millennium:
3rd millennium
Centuries:
20th century
21st century
22nd century
Decades:
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Years:
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2008 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
2008 MMVIII
Ab urbe condita
2761
Armenian calendar
1457 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԷ
Assyrian calendar
6758
Baháʼí calendar
164–165
Balinese saka calendar
1929–1930
Bengali calendar
1415
Berber calendar
2958
British Regnal year
56 Eliz. 2 – 57 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2552
Burmese calendar
1370
Byzantine calendar
7516–7517
Chinese calendar
丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4705 or 4498 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4706 or 4499
Coptic calendar
1724–1725
Discordian calendar
3174
Ethiopian calendar
2000–2001
Hebrew calendar
5768–5769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2064–2065
- Shaka Samvat
1929–1930
- Kali Yuga
5108–5109
Holocene calendar
12008
Igbo calendar
1008–1009
Iranian calendar
1386–1387
Islamic calendar
1428–1430
Japanese calendar
Heisei 20 (平成２０年)
Javanese calendar
1940–1941
Juche calendar
97
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4341
Minguo calendar
ROC 97 民國97年
Nanakshahi calendar
540
Thai solar calendar
2551
Tibetan calendar
阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 2134 or 1753 or 981 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 2135 or 1754 or 982
Unix time
1199145600 – 1230767999
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2008 (MMVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
Calendar year
2008 was designated as:
International Year of Languages[1]
International Year of Planet Earth
International Year of the Potato
International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued through the entirety of 2008.
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