1904 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1904?
- January 23, 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
- February 16, 1904 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
- April 8, 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
- April 10, 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
- April 24, 1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
- April 27, 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- May 9, 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph.
- May 21, 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
- June 15, 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- June 16, 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- June 28, 1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
- July 21, 1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
- August 10, 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
- October 8, 1904 – Edmonton, Alberta was incorporated as a city.
- October 27, 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- December 10, 1904 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
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