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1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1900, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Section: January (2): January 2 – U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China. January 6 – Second Boer War: Boers attempt to end the Siege of Ladysmith, which leads to the Battle of Platrand. January 14 Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome. The U.S. Senate accepts the British-German Treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands. January 24 – Second Boer War: Battle of Spion Kop – Boer troops defeat the British Army. January 27 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, Qing dynasty China, demand that the Boxer rebels (who oppose foreign interests in the country) be disciplined. January 31 – Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of the Mat Salleh Rebellion in North Borneo, is shot dead in Tambunan. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 5 – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua. February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. February 8 – Second Boer War: British troops defeat the Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa. February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted. February 16 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieves a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier. February 17 – Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg – British troops defeat the Boers. February 27 The British Labour Party is officially established, at a meeting in the Congregational Memorial Hall in London, and Ramsay MacDonald is appointed as its first secretary. Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé. FC Bayern, Germany's most successful football club, is founded in Munich. Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March 5 – Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. March 6 – A coal mine explosion in West Virginia, United States, kills 50 miners. March 14 – Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of heredity. March 16 – British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the Palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later. March 23 – Karl Landsteiner first reports his discovery of an accurate means for classifying a system of blood type, which will universally be referred to as the ABO blood group system and for which he will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 14 – The Exposition Universelle, a world's fair, opens in Paris. April 22 – Battle of Kousséri: French forces secure their domination of Chad. Warlord Rabih az-Zubayr is defeated and killed. Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May – American explorer Robert Peary is the first person to sight Kaffeklubben Island. May 1 – Scofield Mine disaster: An explosion of blasting powder in a coal mine in Scofield, Utah, kills 200 people. May 14 – The second Olympic Games, Paris 1900, open (as part of the Paris World Exhibition). May 17 Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking. Boxer Rebellion: Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill 60 Chinese Christians. L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's Oz books, chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children. May 18 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga. May 21 – Russia invades Manchuria. May 24 – Second Boer War: The British annex the Orange Free State, as the Orange River Colony. May 28 – Boxer Rebellion: Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station. May 29 – N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil. May 31 – Boxer Rebellion: Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China, where they eventually unite with Japanese forces. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): June 5 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. June 11 – 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria starts to turn passive. June 14 – The Reichstag approves the second of the German Naval Laws allowing expansion of the Imperial German Navy. June 17 – Boxer Rebellion: Battle of Dagu Forts – Naval forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture the Taku Forts, on the Hai River estuary in China. June 20 – Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking, and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador. June 25 – Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century. June 30 – Hoboken Docks fire: A wharf fire at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, spreads to German passenger ships Saale, Main and Bremen. The fire engulfs the adjacent piers and nearby ships, killing 326 people. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July 1 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria makes a morganatic marriage with Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. July 2 – The first zeppelin airship flight, by Zeppelin LZ 1, is carried out over Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Germany. July 9 – The Federation of Australia is enacted, marking the unification of its colonies into a single country. July 12 – The new German cruise liner SS Deutschland breaks the record for the Blue Riband on her maiden transatlantic voyage with an average speed of 22.4 knots (41.5 km/h). July 19 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens. July 23–25 – The First Pan-African Conference is held in London. July 29 – King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza. Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August – The first Michelin Guide is published in France. August 14 – Boxer Rebellion: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the European hostages. Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September 8 – The 1900 Galveston hurricane, killing around 8,000 people. It is the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history. September 12 – Admiral Fredrik von Otter becomes Prime Minister of Sweden. September 13 – Philippine–American War: Battle of Pulang Lupa – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a detachment of American soldiers. September 17 – Philippine–American War: Battle of Mabitac – Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat the Americans. Subsections (0):
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Section: October (2): October 9 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom. October 19 – Max Planck first states Planck's law of black-body radiation to a meeting of the German Physical Society in Berlin, marking the birth of modern quantum mechanics. He restates it on December 14. October 24 – 1900 United Kingdom general election: voting concludes with the Unionists led by the Marquess of Salisbury re-elected. October 25 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. Subsections (0):
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Section: November (2): November 6 – 1900 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent William McKinley is re-elected by defeating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan in a rematch. November 7 – 1900 Canadian federal election: Liberal incumbent Sir Wilfrid Laurier is reelected by defeating Conservative leader Sir Charles Tupper again after having done that in the 1896 Canadian federal election. November 29 – Herbert Kitchener succeeds Frederick Roberts as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa and implements a scorched earth strategy. Subsections (0):
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Section: December (2): December 5 – The final Anglo-Ashanti War, "War of the Golden Stool", is declared over, most of the British troops and Governor James Willcocks departing the city of Kumasi. December 14 – History of quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents his groundbreaking paper on quantum theory to the German Physical Society in Berlin. December 16 – The German training frigate Gneisenau, with 450 naval cadets on board, sank in a storm during exercises off of the Spanish coast at Málaga, drowning 136. December 17 – The Prix Guzman, first and only prize ever offered for communication with extraterrestrial life, is announced in Paris. A prize of 100,000 francs is provided, except for communication with Mars, which is considered too easy. December 19 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government, and is forced to resign. December 23 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first use of amplitude modulation (the basis for AM radio) for wireless transmission of the human voice, from Cobb Island (Maryland). December 24 – Boxer Rebellion Demands: The foreign powers present their 12 conditions for reform to the Chinese Imperial government, including the payment of a large indemnity. December 27 – British human rights activist Emily Hobhouse arrives in Cape Town, South Africa. December 28 – The first steel produced by electrometallurgy (from an electric furnace) is delivered. Subsections (0):
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1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1901st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 901st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1901, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Section: January (2): January 1 The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minister of Australia. Nigeria becomes a British protectorate. January 9 – Lord Kitchener reports that Christiaan de Wet has shot one of the "peace" envoys, and flogged two more, who had gone to his commando to ask the Burgher citizens of South Africa to halt fighting. January 22 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She is 81 years old and, having ruled for nearly 64 years, will be the second longest-reigning monarch in British history. Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, "Bertie", the longest-serving Prince of Wales to this time, succeeds his mother at the age of 59, reigning as King Edward VII, of the United Kingdom and in innovation the British Dominions, Canada and Australia and also becoming Emperor of India. January 31 – Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters (Три сeстры, Tri sestry) is premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 2 – The State funeral of Queen Victoria, held at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, UK, is attended by many European royals, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. February 12 – Viceroy of India Lord Curzon creates the new North-West Frontier Province in the north of the Punjab region, bordering Afghanistan. February 14 – Edward VII opens his first parliament of the United Kingdom. February 16 – Bulgaria: Macedonian demonstrators in Sofia demand independence from Turkey. February 20 – The Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time. February 22 – The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's SS City of Rio de Janeiro sinks entering San Francisco Bay, killing 128. February 23 – The United Kingdom and Germany agree on the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland. February 25 – U.S. Steel is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan, as the first billion-dollar corporation. February 26 Chi-hsui and Hsu-cheng-yu, Boxer Rebellion leaders, are executed in Peking. The Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa, as Boers continue to demand autonomy. February 27 – The Sultan of Turkey orders 50,000 troops to the Bulgarian frontier because of unrest in Macedonia. Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March 1 The United Kingdom, Germany and Japan protest the Sino-Russian agreement on Manchuria. The 1901 Census of India is taken, the fourth, and first reliable, census of the British Raj. March 2 – The United States Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. March 4 – Second inauguration of William McKinley as President of the United States. March 5 – Irish nationalist demonstrators are ejected by police from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in London. March 6 – In Bremen, an assassination attempt is made on Wilhelm II, German Emperor. March 17 – The first large-scale showing of Van Gogh's paintings in Paris as 71 are shown at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery, 11 years after his death, is influential. March 31 A 7.2 Mw Black Sea earthquake occurs off the northeast coast of Bulgaria, with a maximum intensity of X (Extreme). A destructive tsunami affects the province of Dobrich. The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever level. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 29 – Anti-Semitic rioting breaks out in Budapest. Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May 5 – The Caste War of Yucatán in Mexico officially ends, although Mayan skirmishers continue sporadic fighting for another decade. May 9 – The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne. May 17 – Panic of 1901: The New York Stock Exchange crashes. May 24 – 81 miners are killed in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in South Wales. May 25 – The Club Atlético River Plate is founded in Argentina. May 27 – In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded. May 28 – D'Arcy Concession: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar of Persia grants British businessman William Knox D'Arcy a concession giving him an exclusive right to prospect for oil. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): June 2 – Katsura Tarō becomes Prime Minister of Japan. June 12 – Cuba becomes a United States protectorate. June 15 – RMS Lucania is the first Cunard Line ship to receive a wireless radio set. June 18 – British peace campaigner Emily Hobhouse reports on the high mortality and cruel conditions in the Second Boer War concentration camps. June 24 The first showing of Picasso's paintings in Paris as the 19-year-old Spanish artist exhibits his work at Ambroise Vollard's gallery. English Association Football Club Brighton & Hove Albion is formed by John Jackson to replace the amateur Brighton and Hove Rangers, following a meeting at the Seven Stars Hotel on Ship Street, Brighton. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July 1 – Tom Gorman, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1978) July 7 Seán Clancy, oldest Irish War of Independence veteran (d. 2006) Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and film director (d. 1974) Gustav Knuth, German film actor (d. 1987) Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (d. 1970) July 9 Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000) Frank Finnigan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1991) Lou Polli, Italian baseball pitcher (d. 2000) July 13 – Eric Portman, English actor (d. 1969) July 17 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938) July 21 – Sue Wah Chin, Australian entrepreneur (d. 2000) July 24 Mabel Albertson, American actress (d. 1982) Igor Ilyinsky, Soviet and Russian actor, comedian and director (d. 1987) July 28 – Rudy Vallée, American actor and jazz musician (d. 1986) July 31 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter (d. 1985) Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August 1 – Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (d. 1925) August 4 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971) August 5 – Thomas J. Ryan, American admiral (d. 1970) August 8 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) August 10 – Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist (d. 2001) August 14 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (d. 1998) August 18 Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983) Jean Guitton, French writer and philosopher (d. 1999) August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) August 24 – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1987) August 26 Maxwell D. Taylor, American general (d. 1987) Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (d. 1972) Jan de Quay, Dutch politician, psychologist and 31st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1985) August 28 – Babe London, American actress and comedian (d. 1980) August 30 John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970) Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (d. 1981) Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September 5 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago. September 6 – William McKinley assassination: American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later. September 7 – The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. September 14 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president of the United States, upon President William McKinley's death. Roosevelt is sworn in this afternoon. September 28 – Philippine–American War: Balangiga massacre: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty United States soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga. Subsections (0):
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Section: October (2): October 2 – The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness. October 4 – The American yacht Columbia defeats the British Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race in New York. October 16 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region. October 23 – Yale University celebrates its bicentennial. October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives. October 29 Leon Czolgosz is executed in the electric chair for the assassination of William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6. In Amherst, New York, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine; she will confess to at least 31 killings. Subsections (0):
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Section: November (2): November 1 – The Sigma Phi Epsilon college fraternity is founded in Richmond, Virginia. November 9 The Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom) becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is premiered in Moscow with the composer playing the solo part. November 13 – 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster: a life-boat capsizes on service on the east coast of England during a great storm; nine of the twelve crew on board are killed. This gives ride to the lifeboatmen's motto "Never turn back." November 15 – The Alpha Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. November 18 – The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is signed by the United Kingdom and United States, allowing the U.S. to build the Panama Canal under its sole control. November 25 – Auguste Deter is first examined by German psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer, leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name. November 28 – The new Constitution of Alabama requires voters in the state to have passed literacy tests. Subsections (0):
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Section: December (2): December 3 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the United States House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 is passed by the new Parliament of Australia as the basis of a White Australia policy. It is given royal assent on December 23. December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm, on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England, to St. John's, Newfoundland; it is the letter "S" in Morse code. December 20 – The final spike is driven into the Mombasa–Victoria–Uganda Railway, in modern-day Kisumu, Kenya. December 22 – Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in Liverpool, says about the war in South Africa: "Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth — the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps." A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house. Subsections (0):
1902_0
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1902nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 902nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1902, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Section: January (2): January 1 The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's first registered nurse. Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his wireless telephone device in the U.S. state of Kentucky. January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17 people, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and the banning of steam locomotives in New York City. January 23 – Hakkōda Mountains incident: A snowstorm in the Hakkōda Mountains of northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise. January 30 – The Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 11 – Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels, Belgium. February 12 – The 1st Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance takes place in Washington, D.C.. February 15 – The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened. February 18 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the antitrust Sherman Act. February 27 – Australian officers Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock are executed for the murder of Boer prisoners of war near Louis Trichardt. Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March 7 – Second Boer War: Battle of Tweebosch – South African Boers win their last battle over the British Army, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. March 8 – Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 is premiered in Helsinki in the Grand Duchy of Finland. March 10 Clashes between police and Georgian workers led by Joseph Stalin leave 15 dead, 54 wounded, and 500 in prison. A Circuit Court decision in the United States ends Thomas Edison's monopoly on 35 mm movie film technology. March 15 – The Pattani Sultanate was abolished by the Siamese authority after the last sultan of Pattani refused new administrative reforms by the Siamese. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 2 – The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles. April 11 – Tenor Enrico Caruso makes the first million-selling recording, for the Gramophone Company in Milan, Italy. April 13 – A new land speed record of 74 mph (119 km/h) is set in Nice, France, by Léon Serpollet driving a steam car. April 19 – The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000. Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May 5 – The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service. May 7 – La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent erupts, devastating the northern portion of the island and killing 2,000 people May 8 – Mount Pelée in Martinique erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000. May 13 – Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign. May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. May 22 – The White Star Liner SS Ionic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. May 29 – The London School of Economics is opened by Lord Rosebery. May 31 – The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): June 2 – The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States. June 13 – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, predecessor of global consumer goods brand 3M, begins trading as a mining venture at Two Harbors in the United States. June 15 – The New York Central Railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City. June 16 – The Commonwealth Franchise Act in Australia grants women's suffrage in federal elections for resident British subjects (with certain ethnic minorities excepted), making Australia the first independent country to grant women the vote at a national level, and the first country to allow them to stand for Parliament. June 26 – Edward VII institutes the Order of Merit, an order bestowed personally by the British monarch on up to 24 distinguished Empire recipients. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July – James Stevenson-Hamilton is appointed warden of the Sabie Game Reserve in South Africa. July 2 – Philippine–American War ends. July 5 – Erik Gustaf Boström returns as Prime Minister of Sweden. July 8 – The United States Bureau of Reclamation is established within the U.S. Geological Survey. July 10 – The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 112 miners. July 11 Lord Salisbury retires as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The British Order of the Garter is conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. July 14 Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas". St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses. July 21 – Fluminense Football Club is founded in Rio de Janeiro. July 22 – Felix Pedro discovers gold in modern-day Fairbanks, Alaska. Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August 1 – 100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia. August 9 – Coronation of Edward VII as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, Emperor of India at Westminster Abbey in London. August 22 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile, a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut. A 7.7 earthquake shakes the border between China and Kyrgyzstan killing 10,000 people. August 24 – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the French town which she stormed in 1429. August 30 – Mount Pelée again erupts in Martinique, destroying the town of Le Morne-Rouge and causing 1,000 deaths. Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September 1 – The first science fiction film, the silent A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premièred at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, France, by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an immediate success. September 19 – Shiloh Baptist Church stampede: 115 people are killed in a crush at a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, following a mistaken alarm of fire after an address by Booker T. Washington. Subsections (0):
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Section: October (2): October 16 – The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, U.K. October 21 – A five-month strike by the United Mine Workers in the United States ends. October 24 – One of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century occurs at Santa María in Guatemala; over 6,000 people dies. Subsections (0):
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Section: November (2): November 15 King Leopold II of Belgium survives an attempted assassination in Brussels by Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino. The Hanoi exhibition, a world's fair, opens in French Indochina. November 16 – A newspaper cartoon depicting U.S. President "Teddy" Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub inspires creation of the first teddy bear by Morris Michtom in New York City. November 30 – On the American frontier, the second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, Harvey Logan ("Kid Curry"), is captured after a shootout with lawmen in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is sentenced to a $5,000 fine and 20 years hard labor for robbery but escapes custody in 1903. Subsections (0):
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Section: December (2): December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis: Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela, in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. December 10 – The first Aswan Dam on the Nile is completed. December 17 – The Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnue Agenstvo), predecessor of TASS, is officially established under the Ministry of Finance at Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire. December 30 – Discovery Expedition: British explorers Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S. Subsections (0):
1903_0
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1903rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 903rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 3rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1903, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Section: January (2): January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. January 4 – Topsy, a female Asian circus elephant, is killed by electrocution at Luna Park, Coney Island, New York City. January 10 – The Aceh Sultanate was fully annexed by the Dutch forces, deposing the last sultan, marking the end of the Aceh War that have lasted for almost 30 years. January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901). January 17 – 13 days after Topsy's death, the Edison Manufacturing Company released the short, black-and-white, silent documentary film Electrocuting an Elephant, showing the footage of Topsy's electrocution. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 13 – Venezuelan crisis: After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in 1902 will end. February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens. March 3 – The British Admiralty announces plans to build the Rosyth Dockyard as a naval base at Rosyth in Scotland. March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway. March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is founded. March 13 – Having abolished the Sokoto Caliphate in West Africa, the new British administration accepts the concession of its last vizier. March 14 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian senate later rejects the treaty. March 20 – The first of a series of auctions of sheep farming land in southern Patagonia takes place impacting established settlers. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 19–21 (April 6–8 O.S.) – The first Kishinev pogrom, beginning on Easter Day, takes place in Kishinev, capital of the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire. At least 47 Jews are killed and others injured during mob rioting encouraged by blood libel articles in the press and led by priests; no attempt is made by police or military to intervene until the third day. April 26 – Atlético Madrid is officially founded as a professional association football club in Spain. April 29 The 30-million-m3 Frank Slide rockslide kills 70–90 in Frank, Alberta. The 7.0 Ms  Manzikert earthquake affects eastern Turkey, leaving 3,500 dead (local time; April 28 23:46 UTC). Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May 4 – Leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Ottoman army. May 18 – The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens. May 24 – The Paris–Madrid race for automobiles begins, during which at least eight people are killed; the French government stops the event at Bordeaux and impounds all of the competitors' cars. May 26 – Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): c. June – Osea Island off Maldon, Essex, England, is bought by Frederick Nicholas Charrington to provide an alcohol addiction treatment centre. June 11 (May 29 O.S.) – King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga of Serbia are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization. June 14 – The town of Heppner, Oregon is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that results in a flash flood that kills about 238 people. June 16 – The Ford Motor Company is founded by Henry Ford with $28,000 in cash from 12 investors. June 27 – American socialite Aida de Acosta, 19, becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, "No. 9", from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July 1–19 – The first Tour de France bicycle race is held; Maurice Garin wins it. July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire. July 29 – United States Cartridge Company explosion: The explosion of two explosives storage magazines destroys 70 homes, killing 22 residents of Tewksbury, Massachusetts. July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) – The Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party is held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London. Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August 2 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, organized by the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, breaks out in the Ottoman provinces of Macedonia and Adrianople. August 3 – The Kruševo Republic is proclaimed in Ottoman Macedonia; it is crushed 10 days later. August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope. August 10 – The Paris Métro train fire at Couronnes results in 84 deaths. August 25 – The Judiciary Act is passed in the Australian parliament. Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September – Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas opens as Southwest Texas Normal School. September 11 – The first stock-car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile. September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference. September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil. September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin. September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle, near Danville, Virginia, kills 11 people and inspires a ballad. September 29 – Prussia becomes the second jurisdiction to require mandatory driver's licenses for operators of motor vehicles, after New York State in 1901. Subsections (0):
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Section: October (2): October 1–13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games. October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the U.K. Subsections (0):
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Section: November (2): November 2 – Maggie L. Walker becomes the first African American woman to charter a bank. November 3 – Separation of Panama from Colombia: With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent of Colombia. November 6 – The English-language South China Morning Post newspaper is first published in Hong Kong. November 13 – The United States recognizes the independence of Panama. November 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). November 18 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone. November 23 – Colorado governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike. November 28 – SS Petriana is wrecked on a reef outside Melbourne, Australia, causing one of the world's first major oil spills. Subsections (0):
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Section: December (2): December 16 – The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay (now Mumbai), India opens. December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine, the Wright Flyer, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented and successful powered and controlled heavier-than-air flight. December 30 – The Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago kills 600. December 31 – The National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden) is founded. Subsections (0):
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1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday 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. As of the start of 1904, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Section: January (2): January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS. January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. January 12 – The Herero Wars in German South West Africa begin. January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard («Вишнëвый сад», Vishnevyi sad), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski, 6 month's before the author's death. 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. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 buildings in 31 hours. February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War. February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo. February 17 – Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, with a background theme of Japan–United States relations, debuts at La Scala in Milan, to no great acclaim. On May 28 a revised version opens in Brescia, to huge success. February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone. February 26 – The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, is almost entirely destroyed by fire after a gas jet ignites the newly varnished ceiling. Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a recording of a political 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 6 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia. March 26 – 20,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South African gold mines. March 31 – British expedition to Tibet: The Battle of Guru – British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 4 – 1904 Kresna earthquakes: two earthquakes strike near Kresna, Bulgaria, killing at least 200 people. April 6 – Joseph F. Smith announces the Second Manifesto in General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory, prohibiting the practice of polygamy, which has continued to be sanctioned by some 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. April 8–10 – Aleister Crowley writes Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema, in Cairo. April 19 – The Great Fire of Toronto destroys much of the 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). Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May 4 United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal. Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time, in Manchester (England), to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars; the first produced under their joint names in Manchester are launched in December. German Association football club FC Schalke 04 is established. May 5 British expedition to Tibet: Hundreds of Tibetans attack the British camp at Changlo, and hold the advantage for a while, before being defeated by superior weapons, and losing at least 200 men. Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. May 9 – Great Western Railway of England 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro possibly becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). May 15 – Russo-Japanese War: 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. On the same day, the Japanese protected cruiser Yoshino sinks after being accidentally rammed by the armored cruiser Kasuga, killing over 270 crew, including Captain Sayegi and his second-in-command, Commander Hirowateri. Japan will keep the loss of Yashima secret for over a year. May 21 – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established. May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta, which becomes an international sorority, is founded by 11 women at Syracuse University. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): June 3 – The International Alliance of Women is founded. June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021. June 16 Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland, in Helsinki. The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walks out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on June 10), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He sets the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on this date. June 28 Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing approximately 627 people, many of whom are Russian-Polish and Scandinavian emigrants. The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan is stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia. English Association football club Hull City A.F.C. is established. June 29 – The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July – Pavlos Melas enters Macedonia with a small unit of men during the Macedonian Struggle. July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games open in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, as part of the World's Fair. July 22 – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director. July 23 – A continuous track tractor is patented by David Roberts of Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham in England. Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa, Tibet. August 11 – Battle of Waterberg: Lothar von Trotha defeats the Herero people in German South West Africa, and drives them into the Omaheke desert, starting the Herero and Namaqua genocide. August 14 – Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia. August 17 – Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur. August 18 – Chris Watson resigns as the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid (Free Trade Party). August 24 – Faroese Association football club Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag is established. Summer – Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered the starting point of Fauvism. Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September – Stuyvesant High School opens in New York City as Manhattan's first manual trade school for boys. September 1 – Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opens in London. September 2 – John Voss sails the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westabout. September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband. September 17 – An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease is published in the United States. September 26 – New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack is individually protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act. Subsections (0):
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Section: October (2): October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University, is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune. October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and 8 of his friends, at Cornell University Medical College. October 4 – Swedish Association football club IFK Göteborg is founded, becoming the 39th IFK-association. October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, a 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 11 – Loftus Road football stadium opens in London. October 13 – Pavlos Melas is encircled at Statista and killed during the Macedonian Struggle. October 15 – Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. October 18 – In Germany: The Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum opens in Berlin for the display of fine art. Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School, through the superintendence of 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 establish diplomatic relations. Late October – The first members of what will become the Bloomsbury Group move to the Bloomsbury district of London; they will be joined about November 8 by the future novelist Virginia Woolf. Subsections (0):
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Section: November (2): November 8 – 1904 United States presidential election: 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. English engineer John Ambrose Fleming patents the first thermionic vacuum tube, the two-electrode diode ("oscillation valve" or Fleming valve). November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company in the United States. The "caterpillar track" will come to revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare. Subsections (0):
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Section: December (2): 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, later called Himalia, at California's Lick Observatory. December 4 – The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen in Denmark. December 6 – Theodore Roosevelt announces his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States will 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, South Carolina. December 27 The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London. The Abbey Theatre in Dublin opens. December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens, for streetcars. December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square. Subsections (0):
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1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1905th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 905th year of the 2nd millennium, the 5th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1905, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Section: January (2): January 1 – In a major defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Russian General Anatoly Stessel surrenders Port Arthur, located on mainland China, to the Japanese. On January 3, Japan formally repossesses the port, and renames it Ryojun, holding it for the next 40 years. The area will revert in 1945 to China, and become the Lushunkou District. January 4 Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino becomes Prime Minister of Romania for the second time, having previously served from 1899 to 1900, and remains in office for more than two years. The city of Bend, Oregon, plotted out in 1900 by Alexander Drake, is incorporated as a town for local logging companies, and will have a population of 536 in 1910. By the year 2020, it will have almost 100,000 residents. January 5 – Baroness Emma Orczy's play The Scarlet Pimpernel, the forerunner of her novel, opens at the New Theatre in London, beginning a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals. January 6 The Lick Observatory announces the discovery of a sixth moon of Jupiter, made by their astronomer Charles D. Perrine. Unlike the first five Jovian satellites discovered, the sixth one will be referred to by number as "Jupiter VI" until 1975, when named Himalia. The U.S. Senate confirms the nomination of William D. Crum, an African-American, to the office of collector of customs at Charleston, South Carolina after Crum's nomination by President Theodore Roosevelt. January 11 – Under the supervision of five editors, work begins on the comprehensive Catholic Encyclopedia, subtitled "An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church" and published by the Robert Appleton Company. The first volume will appear in 1907. January 14 – Jens Christian Christensen takes office as the new Prime Minister of Denmark. January 15 – A series of three 41 metres (135 ft) high tsunamis kill 61 people in Norway in the villages of Ytre Nesdal and Bødal after a rockslide sweeps down Mount Ramnefjell and crashes into Lake Lovatnet. January 17 – In France, Prime Minister Émile Combes and his cabinet announce their resignations after being implicated in the Affair of the Cards (L'Affaire des Fiches), a system set up by the War Ministry to purge the French Army officers corps of Jesuits. January 21 – The Dominican Republic sign an agreement with the United States to allow the U.S. to administer the collection of customs taxes for Santo Domingo for 50 years, with the U.S. to assume responsibility for payment of the Republic's debts to foreign nations from Dominican income. The agreement is done as an exercise of the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine. January 22 (January 9 O.S.) – The Bloody Sunday massacre of peaceful Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg takes place, leading to an unsuccessful uprising. January 24 – Maurice Rouvier forms a government as the new Prime Minister of France. January 25 – Tsar Nicholas II appoints General Dmitri Trepov to be the Governor-General of Saint Petersburg, with absolute power to issue regulations to keep order. January 26 – (January 13 O.S. in Russia) Russian Revolution of 1905: The Imperial Russian Army opens fire on demonstrators in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, killing 73 people and injuring 200. Elections are held in Hungary for the 413 seats in the Országgyűlés, the Kingdom's parliament within Austria-Hungary. Voters overwhelmingly reject the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister István Tisza, that has ruled Hungary since 1875, and the Liberals lose 118 of their 277 seats, but Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary (in his capacity as King Ferenc József) ignores the results and keeps Tisza in power. January 27 – The Nelson Act is passed into law in the United States, providing for racial segregation of schools in the Alaska Territory. January 29 – Rioting breaks out in Warsaw, at this time under Russian Imperial rule with a Russian Governor-General. January 30 – The U.S. Supreme Court renders its unanimous decision in the landmark case of Swift & Co. v. United States, allowing the federal government to regulate monopolies. January 31 – "The greatest ball of the Gilded Age" is held by James Hazen Hyde, the 28-year-old heir to the fortune of the founder of the Equitable Life Assurance Association" at New York City's Sherry Hotel, spending $200,000 for a "Louis XV costume ball" for invited guests. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 1 – U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon is indicted by a federal grand jury on charges arising from a scandal involving land grants in the state and illegally using his influence for private clients. February 3 – The first performance of A Shropshire Lad, the setting to music of the 1896 set of 63 poems of A. E. Housman by Arthur Somervell as a song-cycle, takes place at Aeolian Hall in London. February 4 – A simultaneous uprising begins at six cities in Argentina against the government of President Manuel Quintana. February 5 – The French ship Anjou is wrecked off of the coast of the uninhabited Auckland Island, located 290 miles (470 km) from the nearest inhabited land in New Zealand. The castaways live on the isle for more than three months until being rescued on May 7. February 6 – Eliel Soisalon-Soininen, the Chancellor of Justice of the Grand Duchy of Finland (at this time part of the Russian Empire) is assassinated at Helsingfors (modern-day Helsinki). February 9 – Prince A. Morrow begins the movement in the U.S. for sex education, with the founding of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis. February 12 – The Switzerland national football team plays its first international game, losing to France, 1 to 0. February 16 – Six of the 11 crew of the British Royal Navy submarine HMS A5 are killed by a pair of explosions caused by gasoline fumes in Ireland. February 17 – Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the Governor-General of Moscow and uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, is assassinated. February 20 – In the Russo-Japanese War, the Battle of Mukden begins in Manchuria. February 21 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier introduces a resolution in the Canadian parliament proposing that two new provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, be created out of the Northwest Territories. February 23 – Rotary International is founded in Chicago in the U.S. February 26 – Russia sustains a severe defeat in Manchuria at Tsen-ho-Cheng. February 28 – Jane Stanford, the co-founder with her husband Leland of Stanford University, is fatally poisoned while visiting the Moana Hotel in Hawaii. Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March 2 – Russia's Committee of Ministers votes to grant religious freedom to the subjects of the Russian Empire. March 3 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia announces his decision to create an elected assembly, the Duma, to represent the people of the Russian Empire in an advisory capacity, although the real power to make laws will remain with the Tsar and the cabinet of ministers. March 10 – Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese capture of Mukden (modern-day Shenyang) completes the rout of Russian armies in Manchuria. The Russian Army commander, General Aleksey Kuropatkin, telegraphs the Tsar that his armies will be retreating to avoid further danger. March 13 – Mata Hari introduces her exotic dance act in the Musée Guimet, Paris. March 14 – 23 of the 26 crew of the British barque Kyber die when the ship is wrecked off England's Land's End. March 17 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt gives the bride away at the wedding of his 20-year-old niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to her distant cousin, 23-year-old law student Franklin Delano Roosevelt. March 18 – Albert Einstein submits his paper "On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the production and transformation of light", in which he explained the photoelectric effect using the notion of light quanta, for publication. March 20 The Grover Shoe Factory disaster kills 58 employees in Brockton, Massachusetts, when a boiler explodes and the factory building collapses. The title Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is officially recognised by King Edward VII by a royal warrant. March 22 – Russia's Committee of Ministers votes to abolish the compulsory use of the Russian language in schools in "Congress Poland" (Tsarstvo Polskoye). March 23 – The Theriso revolt begins in Crete as about 1,500 people led by Eleftherios Venizelos demand unification with Greece. March 24 – Toastmasters International is founded by Ralph C. Smedley in Bloomington, Illinois. March 29 – Jimmy Walsh knocks out Monte Attell, in a controversial six-round bout in Philadelphia, to win recognition of the World Bantamweight Championship by the National Boxing Association, despite being disqualified by the referee. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 1 – The British Imperial Penny Post is extended to include Australia. April 2 – The Simplon Tunnel through the Alps is opened to railway traffic. April 3 – A coal mine explosion at Zeigler, Illinois, kills 50 miners. April 4 – In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, kills 20,000 and destroys most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala. April 5 – The body of John Paul Jones, "Father of the American Navy", is located in Paris almost 113 years after his death. April 6 – A violent strike by the Teamsters' Union begins in Chicago. April 8 – Hundreds of people are killed in Spain in the collapse of a dam holding back a reservoir near Madrid. April 17 – Russia's Tsar Nicholas II issues a decree granting religious freedom to his subjects. April 20 – The largest ocean liner in the world at this time, the German SS Amerika is launched. April 23 – German General Lothar von Trotha commander of troops in Germany's colony of Südwestafrika (modern-day Namibia), orders the extermination of the Nama people within the colony's borders, ultimately killing 10,000. Von Trotha's proclamation Aan de oorlogvorende Namastamme, proclaimed that "The Nama who chooses not to surrender and lets himself be seen in German territory will be shot, until all are exterminated." April 24 – China's Empress Regent Cixi (Tzu Hsi) abolishes further use in executions of the nation's three most cruel torture execution methods, lingchi ("death by a thousand cuts"), gibbeting (similar to crucifixion, hanging until dying of exposure, thirst or starvation), and desecration of a dying person. April 28 – A tornado strikes Laredo, Texas and kills 100. April 30 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral dissertation, A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions (submitted July 30 to the University of Zurich). Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May 4 –The first world championship of professional wrestling takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. May 9 – Upon the death of U.S. social activist Ann Reeves Jarvis In West Virginia, her daughter Anna Jarvis resolves to campaign across the United States for a proposed "Mother's Day". May 10 – In the U.S., A tornado destroys the town of Snyder, Oklahoma, killing 97. May 11 – Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen" ("On the Motion of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid, as Required by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat"), based on his doctoral research, delineating a stochastic model of Brownian motion. May 12 – The Natural History Museum in London unveils its popular exhibit of "Dippy", an exact replica of the skeleton of the Diplodocus carnegii dinosaur. May 15 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (45 ha) of land adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks are auctioned to what is now today Downtown Las Vegas. May 22 – Abdul Hamid II, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire establishes the Ullah millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day. The decision is publicly announced the next day, which is more commonly celebrated. May 28 – At the end of two days in fighting in the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian Imperial Navy has suffered the deaths of more than 14,000 of the 18,000 sailors and officers it had brought to the battle, and all but four of its Pacific ships. The Japanese loss is three torpedo boats and 800 men. May 29 – Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Elmer Stricklett introduces the "spitball" to major league baseball. May 30 – Japan's Prime Minister Katsura Tarō asks U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to moderate peace discussions to end the Russo-Japanese War. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): June 1 The Lewis and Clark Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon. The Sultan of Morocco rejects France's demands for a scheme of reforms. June 6 – In Germany's last royal wedding, Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and heir to the throne, marries Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Berlin. June 7 – The Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, declares dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, giving Norway full independence. June 13 – Theodoros Diligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece, is assassinated. June 15 – British Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skåne, the future King Gustaf VI Adolf. June 17 – Austrian Football Club FC Admira Wacker is founded as SK Admira Wien in Vienna. June 18 – A coal mine explosion in Russia kills 500 employees at the Ivan Colliery at Kharsisk. June 20 – Ernest Henry Starling introduces the word "hormone" into the English language. June 21 – New York Central Railroad's 20th Century Limited train is derailed in an apparent act of sabotage, killing 21 people. June 25 – The Danish Navy training ship Georg Stage is accidentally sunk after a collision with the English steamship Ancona, killing 22 teenaged recruits. June 27 – (June 14 O.S.): Mutiny breaks out on the Russian ironclad Potemkin. June 28 – "Pomp and Circumstance" is first played as a graduation march, after Yale University music professor Samuel Sanford invited its composer, Sir Edward Elgar, to receive an honorary degree. June 29 – The Automobile Association is founded in the United Kingdom. June 30 – Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", establishing his theory of special relativity. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July 1 – Hundreds of people die in the flooding of Guanajunto in Mexico. July 3 – France's Chamber of Deputies passes a bill for separation of church and state, 341 to 233. July 5 – Alfred Deakin takes office as the new Prime Minister of Australia. July 8 – U.S. President Roosevelt sends his 21-year-old daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and her party on a diplomatic journey to Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Korea. July 10 – A Japanese expedition takes control of the Russian island of Sakhalin after a short battle. July 11 – National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda valley of Wales: an underground explosion kills 120, with just one survivor. July 12 –The University of Sheffield is officially opened by King Edward VII in England. July 14 The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons. In New Zealand, the first known suicide attack by a civilian (as opposed to sacrifices made in military combat) takes place in Murchison. July 15 – The popular fictional character Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, is introduced in France. July 21 – Sixty members of the crew of the USS Bennington are killed in an explosion of the U.S. Navy gunboat in the harbor at San Diego. July 22 – Florence Kelly delivered her landmark speech about child labor before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia. July 24 – An 8.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Mongolia, the second-largest on record here. July 27 – The Taft–Katsura agreement is reached in Tokyo. July 28 – Frankie Neil becomes the new world bantamweight boxing champion by defeating title holder Harry Tenny in a 25-round bout at Colma, California. July 30 – At Basel in Switzerland, the International Zionist Conference delegates vote to reject the British offer of land in Uganda for a Jewish homeland. Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August 2 – The Ancient Order of Druids initiates neo-Druidic rituals at Stonehenge in England. August 7 – King Oscar II of Sweden appoints Prince Gustaf to serve as his regent. August 8 – Fourteen employees of a department store in Albany, New York are killed when the building collapses suddenly. August 9 – The peace conference to end the Russo-Japanese War between Russia and Japan begins at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. August 11 – The Russian Council appointed by Tsar Nicholas II meets at Peterhoff and approves a plan for a national Duma, the first representative assembly in the Empire. August 12 – The first running takes place of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in England, the world's oldest motorsport event to be staged continuously on its original course. August 13 – At a referendum in Norway, voters opt almost unanimously for dissolution of the union with Sweden. August 15 – Mexican-American prospector Pablo Valencia gets lost in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona with no water. Enduring almost eight days of dehydration, Valencia wanders until he is discovered on August 23 by anthropologist William J. McGee and McGee's Papago Indian assistant, Jose. August 20 – Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of Tongmenghui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchu dynasty. August 21 – The Sequoyah Constitutional Convention takes place in Muskogee in the U.S. Indian Territory and approves a constitution for the proposed State of Sequoyah, seeking admission as the only Native American majority state in the U.S. President Roosevelt will reject the idea in favor of joining the Indian Territory with the white-ruled Oklahoma Territory to create the 46th U.S. state. August 22 – The sinking of the Japanese ferry Kinjo Maru kills 160 people after the British ship HMS Baralong collides with it in the Sea of Japan. August 23 – A. Roy Knabenshue introduces the dirigible to the skies of New York City, piloting the lighter-than-air vehicle within view of hundreds of thousands of spectators. August 24 – Frederick D. White becomes the first Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in Canada, and will serve until his death in 1918. August 25 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to travel underwater, after boarding the Navy submarine USS Plunger. August 26 – Near Point Barrow, Alaska, the crew of the Norwegian ship Gjoa, led by Roald Amundsen, make the breakthrough of finding the long-sought "Northwest Passage" from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. August 27 – Tsar Nicholas II issues a decree restoring to Russia's universities the autonomy that had been taken away from them in 1884. August 30 – A solar eclipse takes place, with greatest visibility in North Africa. Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September 1 – The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories. September 2 – The millennia-old imperial examination system for the civil service is abolished in Qing dynasty China. September 5 – Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth – In New Hampshire, a treaty mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is signed by Japan and Russia. Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin together with port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan. September 8 – The 7.2 Mw  Calabria earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people. September 10 – Crystal Palace F.C. is founded in London. September 27 Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", in which he puts forward the idea of mass–energy equivalence by publishing the equation E = mc2 (published November 21). Da-Qing Bank, predecessor of Bank of China, is founded in Peiping. Subsections (0):
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Section: October (2): October 1 A Czech worker, František Pavlík (b. 1885), is bayoneted to death during a demonstration for a Czech university in Brno. This event is the motivation for a piano sonata, 1. X. 1905, by composer Leoš Janáček, which premières on 27 January 1906. Turkish Association football team Galatasaray is founded in Istanbul. October 2 – HMS Dreadnought (1906) is laid down in the United Kingdom, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race. October 5 – The Wright brothers' third aeroplane (Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting, the first aeroplane flight lasting over half an hour. October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City. October 13 – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party (UK) rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign. October 14 – The National League's New York Giants win baseball's World Series, beating the American League's Philadelphia Athletics, 2-0, in Game 5. October 16 – The Partition of Bengal is made by Lord Curzon to separate the region of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu territories until its reunification in 1911. October 26 Sweden–Norway agrees to the repeal of the union with Norway, forming the two modern-day countries. (October 13 O.S.) – The Saint Petersburg Soviet holds its first meeting, the first elected workers' Soviet (council) in Russia. October 29 (October 16 O.S.) – In the Russian Empire: Russian Revolution of 1905: The Imperial Russian Army opens fire on a meeting at a street market in Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, killing 94 and injuring over 200 people. The Circum-Baikal Railway is brought into permanent operation, completing through rail communication on the Trans-Siberian Railway. October 30 (October 17 Old Style) – October Manifesto: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is forced to announce the granting of his country's first constitution (the Russian Constitution of 1906), conceding a national assembly (State Duma) with limited powers. October – Fauvist artists, led by Henri Matisse and André Derain, first exhibit their works, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. Subsections (0):
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Section: November (2): November–December – Russian Revolution of 1905: In the Baltic governorates, workers and peasants burn and loot hundreds of Baltic German manors. The Imperial Russian Army thereafter executes and deports thousands of looters. November 1 – Lahti, the city of Finland, is granted city rights by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Grand Duke of Finland. November 4 – Russification of Finland: The application of the February Manifesto, removing the veto of the Diet of the autonomous Grand Principality of Finland over matters considered by the Emperor to concern Russian imperial interests, is interrupted by the new November Manifesto. The Senate of Finland is ordered to put forward a proposal for parliamentary reform, based on unicameralism and universal and equal suffrage. November 7 – Lawyer and liberal politician Karl Staaff becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, after a Riksdag election based mainly on voting rights reform. November 9 – The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election. November 12 – Norway holds a plebiscite on the monarchy, resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country. November 17 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 ("Eulsa Treaty") effectively makes Korea a protectorate of Japan. November 18 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway; he will reign for 52 years. November 27–28 – The Mataafa Storm buffets the Great Lakes region. Named after the Mataafa, a boat sunk outside of the Duluth Ship Canal, the storm ultimately destroys 29 vessels, leading to 29 deaths and shipping losses of US$ 3.567 million (1905 dollars). November 28 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin, as a political party whose goal is independence for all of Ireland. Subsections (0):
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1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 907th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1907, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Section: January (2): January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 7 – The "Mud March", the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London. February 11 – The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco. February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost. February 16 – SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, bearings and seals), is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. February 21 – The English mail steamship Berlin is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost. February 24 – The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost. Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March The steamship Congo collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives are lost. The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths. The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book". Pablo Picasso completes his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. March 5 – At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops. March 11 – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia. March 15–16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied; 19 women are elected. March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London. March 25 – The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges. c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 7 – Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April 17 The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South American dreadnought race. Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving. April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa. Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization. June 6 – Persil laundry detergent is first marketed by Henkel of Düsseldorf, Germany, the first to combine bleach with detergent commercially. June 10–August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala. June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague. June 22 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy, as the Orange Free State. July 6 – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen. July 15 – The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street. July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro, off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths. July 24 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control. Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August 24–31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands. August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington. August 29 – The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers. August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia, and establishing the Triple Entente. Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September 7 – British Cunard Line passenger liner RMS Lusitania sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England) to New York City. September 8 – Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, opposing modernism in the Catholic Church. September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions of the British Empire. Subsections (0):
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Section: October (2): October – A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eötvös, meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto. October 6 – The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Germany. This organization aims to bring together artists, architects and industrialists to promote the integration of art and industry for the betterment of society and plays a significant role in the development of modern industrial design in Germany. October 8 – Edvard Grieg's Olaf Trygvason, his only opera, is produced posthumously in Christiania, Norway. October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. October 18 – The Hague Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910), focussing on naval warfare. October 24 – A major United States financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907. October 27 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia). October 31 – The Parliament of Finland approves the Prohibition Act, but the law is not implemented because it is not ratified by Grand Duke Nicholas II. Subsections (0):
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Section: November (2): November 4 – Russian immigrant bakers Perry and Ben Feigenson in Detroit begin transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to Faygo. November 16 British Cunard Line passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims that Oklahoma has become the 46th U.S. state. November 21 – Washington State College defeats the University of Washington 10-5 in the Apple Cup in college football, played in Seattle. November 25 The Church of God in Christ, which becomes the fifth-largest African-American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination in the United States, is founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in Memphis, Tennessee. Edeka, a major retailing group in Europe, is founded as a purchasing cooperative in Germany. Subsections (0):
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Section: December (2): December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia. December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V, as king of Sweden. December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first Druk Gyalpo (king of Bhutan). December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239. December 21 – Santa María School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed. December 31 – The first ever "ball drop" is held in Times Square, in New York City. Subsections (0):
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1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 908th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1908, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time.
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Section: January (2): January 1 – The British Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the Nimrod for Antarctica. January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean and is the 46th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130. January 13 – A fire breaks out at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killing 171 people. January 15 – Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first race inclusive sorority is founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. January 24 – Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys begins publication in London. The book eventually sells over 100 million copies, and effectively begins the worldwide Boy Scout movement. Subsections (0):
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Section: February (2): February 1 – Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Prince Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon. February 3 – Panathinaikos A.O., a well-known professional multi-sports club of Greece, is founded in Athens. February 12 – The first around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York to Paris Race, begins. February 18 – Japanese emigration to the United States is forbidden, under terms of the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907. February 29 – The State Normal and Industrial School for Women, precursor to James Madison University, is founded in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Subsections (0):
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Section: March (2): March A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France, by Otto Hauser. Arthur Mee's The Children's Encyclopædia begins publication in London. March 4 The Pretoria branch of Transvaal University College, precursor to the University of Pretoria, is established. The Collinwood school fire near Cleveland, Ohio kills 174. Bank of Communications, a major financial services provider in China, is founded in Beijing,. March 9 – Football Club Internazionale is founded in Milan, Italy March 23 – American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is assassinated in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants, unhappy with his recent support for the increasing Japanese presence in Korea. March 27 – The first Scout troop outside the U.K. is formed in Gibraltar. March 29 – French aviator Henri Farman makes the world's first flight with a passenger, Léon Delagrange. Subsections (0):
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Section: April (2): April 8 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. April 20 – Sunshine rail disaster: A rear-end collision of two trains in Melbourne, Australia kills 44 people and injures more than 400. April 21 – Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date. Subsections (0):
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Section: May (2): May 14–October 31 – The Franco-British Exhibition (1908) is held in London. May 26 – At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. Subsections (0):
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Section: June (2): June 28 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from Central America, North America, Atlantic Ocean and Africa and is the 33rd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 135. June 29 – Kohlerer-Bahn by Bleichert opens in Bolzano, South Tyrol, the first modern aerial enclosed cable car solely for passenger service. June 30 (June 17 OS) – The Tunguska event or "Russian explosion" near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire, is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment, at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Subsections (0):
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Section: July (2): July 1 – SOS comes into force internationally as a distress signal (originally for ship-to-shore wireless telegraphy). July 3 – Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200 followers (Ottoman troops and civilians), begins an open revolution by defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia, decamping into the hill country. July 6 – Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole. July 8 – French aviator Léon Delagrange makes the world's first flight with a female passenger, his partner and fellow sculptor Thérèse Peltier. July 11–12 – The steamship Amalthea, housing 80 British strikebreakers in Malmö harbour, Sweden, is bombed by Anton Nilson; 1 is killed, 20 injured. July 11 – The Western University of Pennsylvania is renamed the University of Pittsburgh. July 13–25 – The 1908 Summer Olympics are held in London. (Originally scheduled to be in Rome, but changed due to the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 1906. Figure skating events are held in London from October 28–29.) July 19 – Feyenoord, the first Dutch football club to win the UEFA Champions League, is founded at Rotterdam, Netherlands July 23 – Young Turk Revolution: The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) issues a formal ultimatum to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, to restore the constitution of 1876 within the Ottoman Empire; it is restored the following day. July 24 – Italian Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon (run from Windsor Castle to London) in one of the most dramatic arrivals in Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards for receiving assistance; victory is awarded to Irish-American Johnny Hayes. July 26 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is founded. July 27–28 – The 1908 Hong Kong typhoon sinks the passenger steamer Ying King, causing 421 deaths. Subsections (0):
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Section: August (2): August 8 Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time, demonstrating true controlled powered flight in Europe. The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner patented on June 22 by James M. Spangler. August 17 – “Fantasmagorie”, an animated short film by Émile Cohl, which is widely regarded as the first animated cartoon is officially released. August 24 – After an intense power struggle, Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafid. August 28 – American Messenger Company, predecessor of United Parcel Service, is founded in Washington (state). August 31 – The Great Storm of 1908 starts to pound the Bristol Channel, lasting into the morning of September 2. Subsections (0):
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Section: September (2): September 10 – The first Minas Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas Geraes is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the River Tyne in England, catalysing the "South American dreadnought race". September 17 – At Fort Myer, Virginia, Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash but recovers. September 28 – Classes begin at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, established under the terms of Franklin's will. Subsections (0):
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