1904

1904 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1904; MCMIV
Ab urbe condita	2657
Armenian calendar	1353; ԹՎ ՌՅԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6654
Bahá'í calendar	60–61
Balinese saka calendar	1825–1826
Bengali calendar	1311
Berber calendar	2854
British Regnal year	3 Edw. 7 – 4 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar	2448
Burmese calendar	1266
Byzantine calendar	7412–7413
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit); 4600 or 4540; — to —; 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon); 4601 or 4541
Coptic calendar	1620–1621
Discordian calendar	3070
Ethiopian calendar	1896–1897
Hebrew calendar	5664–5665
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1960–1961
- Shaka Samvat	1825–1826
- Kali Yuga	5004–5005
Holocene calendar	11904
Igbo calendar	904–905
Iranian calendar	1282–1283
Islamic calendar	1321–1322
Japanese calendar	Meiji 37; (明治３７年)
Javanese calendar	1833–1834
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4237
Minguo calendar	8 before ROC; 民前8年
Nanakshahi calendar	436
Thai solar calendar	2446–2447
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年; (female Water-Rabbit); 2030 or 1649 or 877; — to —; 阳木龙年; (male Wood-Dragon); 2031 or 1650 or 878

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1901 1902 1903 – 1904 – 1905 1906 1907

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1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1904 is 13 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January

February 7: Aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire.

January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.
January 12 – Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph (147.05 km/h).
January 16 – The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
January 18 – The Herero Rebellion in German South-West Africa begins.
January 23 – The Ålesund Fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter.
January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics.

February

February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.

Port Arthur from Gold Hill

February 8 – A Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) starts the Russo-Japanese War.
February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
February 28 – Sport Lisboa e Benfica is founded in Portugal.

March

March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
March 4 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria, followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
March 26 – 80,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British government.
March 31 – British expedition to Tibet – Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.

April

April 6 – Joseph F. Smith announces the Second Manifesto in General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ending in fact the practice of plural marriage which had continued to be practiced by many of its leaders in violation of the 1890 Manifesto officially banning the practice.
April 8
- The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.
- Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- Aleister Crowley begins writing Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema. He completes this task on April 10.
April 19 – The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but there are no fatalities.
April 27 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).

May

May 4
- United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.
- German football club FC Schalke 04 is established.
May 5
- Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- Hundreds of Tibetans attacked the camp at Changlo and, for a while, held the advantage before being defeated by the British's superior weapons and losing at least 200 men.^[1]
May 9 – GWR 3440 City of Truro becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph.
May 15– The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles (24 km) off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
May 21 – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.
May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta, now an international women's fraternity, is founded by 11 women at Syracuse University.

June

June 10 – Irish author James Joyce meets his future wife Nora Barnacle.
June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.
June 16
- Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he later uses this date (Bloomsday) as the setting for his novel Ulysses.
June 28 – The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.
June 28 – The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan was stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia.
June 29 – The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.

October

October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College.
October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, the co-ed Professional Business Fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University.
October 9 – German journalist Anna Rüling, in a speech to the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin, makes the first known public statement of the socio-legal problems faced by lesbians.
October 15 – Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
October 21 – Russo-Japanese War – Dogger Bank incident: The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea.
October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
October 28 – Panama and Uruguay establishes diplomatic links.

November

November 8: Republican Theodore Roosevelt is elected President of the United States by defeating Democrat Alton B. Parker.

November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
November 16 – The settlement at Grytviken on the British South Atlantic island territory of South Georgia is established by Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca.^[3]
November 24 – The first successful caterpillar track is made (it later revolutionizes construction vehicles and land warfare).

December

December 2 – The St. Petersburg Soviet urges a run on the banks: the attempt fails and the executive committee is arrested.
December 3 – Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia.
December 4 – The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen in Denmark.
December 6 – Theodore Roosevelt announced his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.
December 27 – The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.
December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens.
December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.

November 24: caterpillar track

Date unknown

The Loftus Road and Griffin Park football stadiums open in London.
Stuyvesant High School is founded in New York City.
St. Bernard's School is founded in New York City.
The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman University, is founded.
The subject of alcohol and heart attacks is first investigated.^{[clarification needed]}

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