1904 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1904?
- January 8, 1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- 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.
- February 22, 1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
- March 3, 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
- 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 27, 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- May 4, 1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
- May 15, 1904 – The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan’s battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and “Yashima”.
- June 16, 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- June 28, 1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
- 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 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 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.
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