Anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel advocated the use of violence as a form of direct action, calling it " revolutionary violence ", which he opposed in Reflections on Violence ( 1908 ) to the violence inherent in class struggle.

Sallmon was opposed by conservative faculty members, who forced him out by 1908.

In April 1908, the Committee of Union and Progress ( more commonly called the Young Turks ), a political party opposed to the absolute rule of Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II, led a rebellion against their ruler.

In October 1908, Austria-Hungary's plans for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina were opposed by Serbia, which sought Russian assistance.

In 1908. the death of Ellis and the destruction of his stadimeter were cited in an article in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings as to the impracticality of using observers aloft or in an exposed position on deck to determine range to targets during an actual battle, as opposed to gunnery practice.

Björn became minister of Iceland after Hannes Hafstein and his supporters suffered a bad outcome in the elections of 1908, where the voters opposed to the draft of new constitution.

He was first elected to Parliament as a Liberal in a 1908 by-election, and was re-elected by acclamation in a 1909 by-election following his appointment as the first-ever Minister of Labour.

* Joseph Jackson ( Canadian politician ) ( 1831 – 1908 ), Canadian Member of Parliament for Norfolk South, 1882 – 1887

In 1908, Ståhlberg was elected as a member of Parliament for the Southern Häme constituency, which he represented until 1910.

Svinhufvud went on to serve as a member of Parliament on four occasions ( 1907 – 1908, 1908 – 1914, 1917, and 1930 – 1931 ).

The Parliament of Belgium annexed the Congo Free State and took over its administration on November 15, 1908, four years after the Casement Report and six years after the first printing of Heart of Darkness.

Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament.

From 1896 to 1908 he was leader of the Cigar Sorters ' Union, in 1898 – 1904 also editor of the magazine Samarbejdet ( Co-operation ) of the Federation of Trade Unions, and elected Member of Parliament ( Folketinget ) in 1906.

* Charles Algernon Whitmore ( 1851 – 1908 ), British Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Chelsea 1886 – 1906

In 1908 he was elected to the first of two successive terms in Parliament.

* Vasco da Gama Fernandes ( 1908 – 1991 ), Portuguese politician, Chairman of the Portuguese Parliament

Through vigorous campaigning, by 1908 Willett had managed to gain the support of a Member of Parliament ( MP ), Robert Pearce, who made several unsuccessful attempts to get it passed into law.

In 1908 Aromanian members were admitted to the Turkish Parliament.

* July 12-Charles Merritt, recipient of the Victoria Cross and Member of Parliament ( born 1908 )

The second organised party to gain a seat in Parliament ( after the Liberal Party ) was the small Independent Political Labour League, which won an urban electorate in Wellington in the 1908 elections.

He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Rossendale, Lancashire, from 1904 to 1916 and served as First Commissioner of Works in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's 1905 ministry ( included in the cabinet in 1907 ) and in H. H. Asquith's cabinet between 1908 and 1910 and again between 1915 and 1916.

His eldest son, the sixth Marquess, sat as Unionist Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire from 1908 to 1918 and was a Senator of the Irish Free State in 1922.

His second son Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea, heir apparent to the earldom from 1878 to 1908, represented Bury St Edmunds in Parliament as a Conservative, but died in 1908, seven years before his father.

His son, the second Baron, also represented Hull West in Parliament as a Liberal and served as Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire between 1908 and 1924.

On April 5, 1908 the Italian Parliament enacted a basic law to unite all of the parts of southern Somalia into an area called " Somalia Italiana ".

* William Thomas Wells ( 1908 – 1990 ), barrister, Member of Parliament for Walsall ( 1945 – 1955 ) and Walsall North ( 1955 – 1974 )

In the 1908 federal election, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ), but lost his seat in the 1911 election that defeated the Laurier Liberals.

On his return to New Zealand he was elected to Parliament successively for Waihemo – 1902, Waikouaiti 1902 – 1908, Taieri 1908 – 1911 and Egmont ( in the North Island ) 1911 – 1912, never losing an election.

At the end of his second term, Roosevelt promoted his friend William Howard Taft for the 1908 Republican nomination.

Whistler was the subject of a contemporaneous biography by his friend, the printmaker Joseph Pennell, who collaborated with his wife Elizabeth Robins Pennell to write The Life of James McNeill Whistler, published in 1908.

McLaughlin who prior to his 100th birthday stated that he, Durant and Durant's son-in-law Dr Campbell from Port Perry and a lifelong friend of Sam were dickering after the Buick Motor deal for 15 years in 1907 and the exchange of $ 500, 000. 00 Buick stock for $ 500, 000. 00 McLaughlin stock with a name for their company and called it General Motors. This came to be in 1908.

In January 1858 Symonds received a letter from his friend Alfred Pretor ( 1840 – 1908 ), telling of Pretor's affair with their headmaster, Charles John Vaughan.

Albert Bigelow Paine, a New England author, wrote about fly fishing in The Tent Dwellers, a book about a three week trip he and a friend took to central Nova Scotia in 1908.

Muir appealed to his friend US President Roosevelt, who would not commit himself against the dam, given its popularity with the people of San Francisco ( a referendum in 1908 confirmed a seven-to-one majority in favor of the dam and municipal water ).

Other performances included roles in The Joy of Living ( 1902 ), Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1904 ; as Melisande to the Pelleas of her friend Sarah Bernhardt ), Hedda Gabler ( 1907 ), Electra ( 1908 ), The Thunderbolt ( 1908 ), and Bella Donna ( 1911 ).

In February 1908 Smith was made a King's Counsel by Lord Loreburn, on the same day as his friend and rival from Wadham College, future Home Secretary Sir John Simon.

The celebrated food writer M. F. K. Fisher ( 1908 – 1992 ) called milk toast a " warm, mild, soothing thing, full of innocent strength ", and wrote, of eating milk toast in a famed restaurant with a convalescent friend, that the food was " a small modern miracle of gastronomy ".

Some of his most important artistic development was at the Etaples art colony, which he first visited in 1908 with his New Zealand friend Eric Spencer Macky ( 1880 – 1958 ).

Written between 1907 and 1908, three fragments with missing pages have survived, and, as with most of Kafka's work, they were published after his death by his friend Max Brod.

In 1908 Blocksidge travelled to London with his friend Robert Graham Brown.

Upon his return, Brown established a home in Alberta for Zina Young Card, a childhood friend whom he married in 1908.

During November 1908, Maeda went to Paris, France, apparently to see his friend Akitaro Ono.

Three years later, in 1908, the museum acquired its first original piece of art, " Afternoon Sky, Harney Desert " by American impressionist painter Childe Hassam, who frequented Malheur and Harney counties in Eastern Oregon with his friend, C. E. S.

Financed by Count Zamoyski, Retinger attended the Sorbonne in 1906, and was the youngest person ever to earn a Ph. D. there, in 1908 at the age of twenty, before his move to England in 1911, where his closest friend was fellow Pole, Joseph Conrad.

* María de los Dolores Olmedo y Patiño Suarez ( 1908 – 2002 ), Mexican businesswoman, friend of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

On a trip to the Alps in 1908 he and his friend Rudolf Fehrmann made a number of first ascents.

While in Vienna, he became a friend and supporter of Leon Trotsky, whose bi-weekly Pravda he helped edit in 1908 – 1912.