Timeline October 1908

Events in October 1908 4

• 1908 1908 Summer Olympics IV Olympiad - London The longest Games in history (187 days). Winner: United Kingdom.
• 1908 – 1927 The Model T puts everyone in one Fifteen million cars Ford's Model T is not technically remarkable. It is light, high off the ground, simple enough for a farmer to repair, and — crucially — priced to fall year after year rather than rise. Over nineteen years it sells more than fifteen million units and turns the combustion engine from a rich man's toy into the default way an ordinary person moves.
• 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia Vienna, Austria-Hungary Serbia was enraged, Russia humiliated, and the Balkans left with a grievance that would produce the spark six years later.
• 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia The Bosnian Crisis Vienna converts thirty years of occupation into outright annexation without consulting anybody. Serbia, which had wanted the province, mobilises and then backs down when Russia — still broken by Japan and 1905 — cannot support it. Germany's open backing of Austria humiliates St Petersburg, which resolves never to be caught out again. Six years later a Bosnian Serb shoots the Archduke in Sarajevo and Russia does not back down.