1904 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1904?
- January 7, 1904 – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
- January 17, 1904 – Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- February 8, 1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
- February 9, 1904 – Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
- 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 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
- April 24, 1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
- May 4, 1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
- 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.
- 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.
- October 15, 1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
- October 19, 1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
- October 20, 1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
- November 18, 1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
- December 3, 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California’s Lick Observatory.
- December 10, 1904 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
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