1906 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1906?
- January 8, 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- January 25, 1906 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 1906 – HMS Dreadnought is launched.
- February 11, 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
- February 15, 1906 – The British Labour Party is organised.
- February 18, 1906 – Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
- March 15, 1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- April 7, 1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- May 26, 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
- June 7, 1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
- June 22, 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
- August 4, 1906 – Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
- August 5, 1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
- August 13, 1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
- August 16, 1906 – An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
- September 1, 1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
- September 12, 1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- September 20, 1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
- October 16, 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- December 31, 1906 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
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