Editing 1904 (section)

== Events ==

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1904}}
* [[January 7]] – The [[distress signal]] ''[[CQD]]'' is established,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064554713&view=1up&seq=368 |chapter=Distress Signalling |first=G. E. |last=Turnbull |title=The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony |year=1913 |pages=318–322 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=[[HathiTrust]] |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080658/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064554713&view=1up&seq=368 |url-status=live}}</ref> only to be replaced 2 years later by ''[[SOS]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t80k29264&view=1up&seq=42 |article=Service Regulation XVI |title=International Wireless Telegraph Convention |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]] |year=1907 |pages=38, 50 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=HathiTrust |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080721/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft80k29264&view=1up&seq=42 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – The [[Blackstone Library]] is dedicated, marking the beginning of the [[Chicago Public Library]] system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Blackstone_Library.pdf |last1=Crawford |first1=Matt |last2=Tatum |first2=Terry |title=Landmark Designation Report: Blackston Library |publisher=[[Commission on Chicago Landmarks]], Historic Preservation Division, Chicago Department of Zoning and Land Use Planning, [[City of Chicago]] |date=August 2010 |page=4 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130174754/https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Blackstone_Library.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 12]] – The [[Herero Wars]] in [[German South West Africa]] begin.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1bRcJ885fAC |last=Bridgman |first=Jon M. |author-link=Jon Bridgman |title=The Revolt of the Hereros |location=[[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[Los Angeles]], London |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1981 |page=73 |isbn=0-520-04113-5 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bybrann.no/?page_id=92 |title=Brannsjefens rapport |trans-title=Fire chief's report |publisher=bybrann.no |year=2010 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826071841/http://bybrann.no/?page_id=92 |archive-date=26 August 2012 |access-date=15 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://bybrann.no/?page_id=113 |title=Bybrannfakta |trans-title=City fire facts |publisher=bybrann.no |year=2010 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826175552/http://bybrann.no/?page_id=113 |archive-date=26 August 2012 |access-date=15 December 2021}}</ref>
* [[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]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mackinder |first=H. J. |author-link=Halford Mackinder |title=The Geographical Pivot of History |title-link=The Geographical Pivot of History |journal=[[The Geographical Journal]] |volume=XXIII |issue=4 |date=April 1904 |pages=421–444|doi=10.2307/1775498 |jstor=1775498 |bibcode=1904GeogJ..23..421M |hdl=2027/uc1.b000726582 }}, cited in {{cite journal |last=Mackinder |first=H J |title=The geographical pivot of history (1904) |journal=The Geographical Journal |url=https://www.iwp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf |volume=170 |issue=4 |date=December 2004 |pages=298–321 |doi=10.1111/j.0016-7398.2004.00132.x |bibcode=2004GeogJ.170..298M |hdl=2027/uc1.b000726582 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031836/http://www.iwp.edu/docLib/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf |archive-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1904}}
[[File:Baltimore fire aftermath.jpg|thumb|270px|right| [[February 7]]: Aftermath of the [[Great Baltimore Fire]].]]
* [[February 7]] – The [[Great Baltimore Fire]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], destroys over 1,500 buildings in 31 hours.<ref>{{cite web |author=((History.com Editors)) |title=The Great Baltimore Fire begins |website=[[History (American TV network)|HISTORY]] |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-baltimore-fire-begins |access-date=25 December 2021 |publisher=[[A&E Television Networks]] |date=4 February 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225071251/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-baltimore-fire-begins |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Port Arthur from Gold Hill.jpg|thumb|right|115px|Port Arthur from Gold Hill]]
* [[February 8]]–[[February 9|9]] – [[Battle of Port Arthur]]: A surprise Japanese naval attack on [[Lüshunkou District|Port Arthur]] (Lüshun) in [[Manchuria]] starts the [[Russo-Japanese War]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/54/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/54/mode/2up 54-61] |location=[[Philadelphia]] |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co.|year=1905 |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515202140/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 |archive-date=15 May 2016 |last=Butcher |first=Clifford F. |title=Port Arthur Was 'the Pearl Harbor of 1904': While Officers and Men of Russian Fleet Were Attending a Reception the Japanese Navy Slipped Into Harbor and Attacked Czar's Ships Two Days Before Declaring War |newspaper=[[The Milwaukee Journal]] |date=19 January 1942 |page=8 |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=[[Google News]] and Internet Archive}}</ref>
* [[February 10]] – [[Roger Casement]] publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the [[Congo Free State|Congo]].
* [[February 17]] – [[Giacomo Puccini|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Chadwick |url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/NYCO/butterfly/fiasco.html |title=The Fiasco of ''Madama Butterfly''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s First Performance: Feb 17, 1904 |website=New York City Opera Project: Madama Butterfly |publisher=[[Columbia University]] |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217190529/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/NYCO/butterfly/fiasco.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 23]] – For $10&nbsp;million, the United States gains control of the [[Panama Canal]] Zone.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-panama-canal |title=Introduction |department=Panama Canal: Topics in Chronicling America |work=[[Chronicling America]] |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226084809/https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-panama-canal |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – The [[Wisconsin State Capitol]], in [[Madison, Wisconsin]], is almost entirely destroyed by fire after a gas jet ignites the newly varnished ceiling.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.wpr.org/1904-fire-gutted-capitol-nearly-cost-madison-state-capitol |title= 1904 Fire Gutted Capitol, Nearly Cost Madison State Capitol |work= [[Wisconsin Public Radio]] |date= February 27, 2017 |first= Erika |last= Janik |accessdate= December 29, 2022 |archive-date= December 30, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221230214346/https://www.wpr.org/1904-fire-gutted-capitol-nearly-cost-madison-state-capitol |url-status= live }}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1904}}
* [[March 3]] – Kaiser [[Wilhelm II of Germany]] becomes the first person to make a recording of a political document, using [[Thomas Edison]]'s [[Phonograph cylinder|cylinder]].
* [[March 4]] – [[Russo-Japanese War]]: [[Russian Empire|Russia]]n troops in Korea retreat toward [[Manchuria]], followed by 100,000 [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]ese troops.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040305.2.34.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Japanese Transports Disembark a Hundred Thousand Men in Korea. Immediate Advance by a Tremendous Array of Soldiery Said to Have Been Ordered. |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=95 |issue=96 |date=5 March 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-2 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120194018/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040305.2.34.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040306.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Russian Troops Retire to the Yalu; Squadrons May Meet in Sea Battle |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=95 |issue=97 |date=6 March 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-7 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120163928/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040306.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 6]] – [[Scottish National Antarctic Expedition]]: Led by [[William Speirs Bruce]], the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] region of [[Coats Land]] is discovered from the ''[[Scotia (barque)|Scotia]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Rudmose Brown | first1 = R. N. | author-link1 = Robert Rudmose-Brown | last2 = Pirie | first2 = J. H. | last3 = Mossman | first3 = R. C. | year = 2002 | title = The Voyage of the Scotia | publisher = Mercat Press | location = Edinburgh | isbn = 1-84183-044-5 | ref = {{sfnRef|Rudmose Brown}} |page=121}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – 20,000 demonstrators gather in [[Hyde Park, London]], to protest against the importation of [[Chinese South Africans|Chinese labourers to South Africa]]n gold mines.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040327.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Big Mass-Meeting is Held in London: Trades Unions Show Their Opposition to the Introduction of Chinese Labor in South Africa. |volume=95 |issue=118 |date=27 March 1904 |at=Page 21, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=8 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208084010/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040327.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 31]] – [[British expedition to Tibet]]: The Battle of Guru – British troops under Colonel [[Francis Younghusband]] defeat ill-equipped [[Tibet]]an troops.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Tibetans Attack British Column and are Repulsed with Loss of Hundreds. Natives Armed With Ancient Weapons Oppose Advance of Younghusband's Expedition and Display Fanatical Valor in Face of Slaughtering Rifle Fire |volume=XCV |issue=123 |date=1 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=8 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208102417/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&pg=PA421 |last=Jaques |first=Tony |title=Guru '''{{!}}''' 1904 '''{{!}}''' British Invasion of Tibet |dictionary=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century |volume=2: F-O |location=[[Westport, Connecticut]] and London |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |year=2007 |page=421 |isbn=978-0-313-33538-9 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8k0FEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT102 |last=Malhotra |first=Iqbal Chand |title=Red Fear: The China Threat |location=[[Vasant Kunj]] [[New Delhi]] |publisher=[[Bloomsbury India]] |year=2021 |pages=102–103 |isbn=9789-3898-6759-6 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1904}}
* [[April 4]] – [[1904 Kresna earthquakes]]: two earthquakes strike near Kresna, Bulgaria, killing at least 200 people.<ref name="NGDC">{{cite journal |title=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search |website=Global Significant Earthquake Database |year=1972 |publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |access-date=31 October 2021 |doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K |author1=National Geophysical Data Center |archive-date=February 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220100414/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[Joseph F. Smith]] announces the [[Second Manifesto]] in [[General Conference (LDS Church)|General Conference]] of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] in [[Utah Territory]], prohibiting the practice of [[Mormonism and polygamy|polygamy]], which has continued to be sanctioned by some of its leaders in violation of the [[1890 Manifesto]] officially banning the practice.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/improvementera0707unse/page/544/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Seventy-Fourth Annual Conference|magazine=[[Improvement Era]] |department=Editor's Table|volume=VII |issue=7 |date=May 1904 |pages=545–546 |access-date=14 February 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
* [[April 8]]
** The [[Entente Cordiale]] is signed between the UK and France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/entente_toc.html |title=Entente Cordiale Table of Contents |year=2000 |publisher=[[Memorial University of Newfoundland]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812065412/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/entente_toc.html |archive-date=12 August 2004 |access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=British History Timeline |publisher=[[BBC]] |location=UK |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml |website=bbc.co.uk |access-date=8 October 2020 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127015243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Longacre Square]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]] is renamed [[Times Square]], after ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/100-years-ago-an-intersection-s-new-name-times-square.html?_r=0 |last=Barron |first=James |author-link=James Barron (journalist) |title=100 Years Ago, an Intersection's New Name: Times Square |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 April 2004 |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=September 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909125612/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/100-years-ago-an-intersection-s-new-name-times-square.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 8]]–[[April 10|10]] – [[Aleister Crowley]] writes ''Liber Al vel Legis'', better known as ''[[The Book of the Law]]'', a text central to [[Thelema]], in Cairo.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Van Kleeck |first=Justin Scott |url=http://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/ArtofLaw.htm |title=The Art of the Law: Aleister Crowley's Use of Ritual and Drama |journal=Esoterica |volume=V |page=195 |issn=1523-1224 |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=[[Michigan State University]] |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314065735/http://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/ArtofLaw.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 19]] – The [[Great Fire of Toronto (1904)|Great Fire of Toronto]] destroys much of the city's downtown, but there are no fatalities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=$10,000,000 Fire at Toronto: Blocks of Buildings Wiped Out. Wind Causes Flames to Spread Very Rapidly. Firemen Make Heroic Fight. Assistance Came From Cities Around Toronto |volume=XXXI |issue=204 |date=20 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3; page 2, column 3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318121937/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Fire Brigade is Almost Helpless: Great Portion of Business and Manufacturing Section Destroyed |volume=XXXI |issue=204 |date=20 April 1904 |at=Page 2, column 3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Great Toronto Fire, April 19, 1904 |website=[[Archives of Ontario]] |url=http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fire/index.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825133436/http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fire/index.aspx |archive-date=25 August 2017 |publisher=[[Queen's Printer for Ontario]] |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bradburn |first=Jamie |title=Great Fire of Toronto (1904) |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=22 April 2020 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904 |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 27]] – The [[Australian Labor Party]] becomes the first such party to gain national government, under [[Chris Watson]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Bede |last=Nairn |title=Watson, John Christian (Chris) (1867–1941) |dictionary=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] |publisher=[[National Centre of Biography]], [[Australian National University]] |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |year=1990 |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115138/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |last=Rhodes |first=Campbell |title=A perfect picture of the statesman: John Christian Watson |date=30 April 2013 |website=[[Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House]] |department=Blog |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162747/https://moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – The [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition]] [[World's Fair]] opens in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] (closes [[December 1]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040430.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LOUISIANA PURCHASE FAIR TO THROW WIDE ITS GATES TODAY Men Worked Late to Complete the Grounds Ceremony to Be More Practical Than Gaudy Enormous Crowd Pours in to Witness Opening |volume=XXXI |issue=214 |date=30 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040430.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=WORLD'S FAIR GATES OPENED; ROOSEVELT BOOMS ATHLETICS Perfect Day Shines on the Great Event at St. Louis |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 4-6; page 5, column 1 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PRESIDENT PUTS POWER IN MOTION AT FAIR |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 1 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318121946/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.51&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=CEREMONIOUS OPENING OF GREAT EXPOSITION |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 5, columns 1-3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115131/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.51&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.123&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION IS GREATEST UNIVERSAL FAIR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD Opening Day Finds Vast Exhibition in Full and Satisfying Readiness for Visitors. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 17, columns 1-7; page 19, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115131/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.123&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.124&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Display Spreads Over Area of 1240 Acres, Representing an Expenditure of $50,000,000. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 17, columns 6-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.124&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION IS FORMALLY THROWN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Exercises of a Simple Nature Mark the Inaugural. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115148/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Roosevelt Presses Key and the Machinery Is Started. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 7; page 28, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115150/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=VAST ASSEMBLAGE TAKES PART IN INAUGURAL CEREMONY St. Louis Puts Forth Her Best and Bravest Efforts in Honor of Her Great and Magnificent Exposition. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 27, columns 1-7; page 28, columns 1-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=O'Neil |first=Tim |title=April 30, 1904: The most anticipated day in St. Louis history |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |department=History |date=30 April 2021 |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/april-30-1904-the-most-anticipated-day-in-st-louis-history/article_42cfb7bc-121d-5aa3-86a2-6df0b4f70da5.html |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/april-30-1904-the-most-anticipated-day-in-st-louis-history/article_42cfb7bc-121d-5aa3-86a2-6df0b4f70da5.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1904-saint-louis |title=1904 Saint Louis |website=[[Bureau International des Expositions]] |department=Expo Timeline |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318232255/https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1904-saint-louis |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1904}}
* [[May 4]]
** United States Army engineers begin work on the [[Panama Canal]].<ref>{{cite web |title=American canal construction |url=https://pancanal.com/en/american-canal-construction/ |publisher=[[Panama Canal Authority]] |access-date=9 March 2022 |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144320/https://pancanal.com/en/american-canal-construction/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Charles Rolls]] and [[Henry Royce]] meet for the first time, in [[Manchester]] (England), to agree production of [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]] motor cars; the first produced under their joint names in Manchester are launched in December.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en_US/inspiring-greatness/values/how-rolls-met-royce.html |title=How Rolls Met Royce |publisher=[[Rolls-Royce Motor Cars]] |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208033642/https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en_US/inspiring-greatness/values/how-rolls-met-royce.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** German Association football club [[FC Schalke 04]] is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/schalke-10-things-you-need-to-know-on-germany-s-coal-mining-heroes-512693.jsp |title=Schalke: 10 things you need to know about Germany's coal-mining heroes |website=[[bundesliga.com]] |publisher=[[DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH]] |year=2019 |access-date=9 March 2022 |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144320/https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/schalke-10-things-you-need-to-know-on-germany-s-coal-mining-heroes-512693.jsp |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Grant |first=Neil |title=Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict |year=1993 |publisher=[[Reed International Books Ltd]] & Smithmark Publishers Inc |location=[[New York City]] |isbn=0-8317-1371-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18 18–19] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18}}</ref>
** [[Pitcher|Pitching]] against the [[Oakland Athletics|Philadelphia Athletics]], [[Cy Young]] of the [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans]] throws the first [[Perfect game (baseball)|perfect game]] in the modern era of [[baseball]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05051904.shtml |title=Cy Young Perfect Game Box Score |publisher=[[Baseball Almanac]] |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05051904.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 9]] – [[Great Western Railway]] of England [[GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro|3700 Class 3440 ''City of Truro'']] possibly becomes the first railway [[locomotive]] to exceed {{Convert|100|mph}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/aboutus/Pages/Swindon-175.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211090556/http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/aboutus/Pages/Swindon-175.aspx |archive-date=11 February 2016 |title=STEAM Gets Set for Swindon175 Celebrations |department=Swindon 175 |website=[[STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway]] |publisher=[[Swindon Borough Council|Swindon Borough Council Civic Offices]] |access-date=10 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Russo-Japanese War]]: [[Russian Empire|Russian]] [[minelayer]] ''Amur'' lays a [[minefield]] about {{convert|15|mi|km}} off [[Lüshunkou District|Port Arthur]], and sinks [[Japan]]'s battleships [[Japanese battleship Hatsuse|''Hatsuse'']], 15,000 tons with 496 crew, and [[Japanese battleship Yashima|''Yashima'']]. On the same day, the Japanese [[protected cruiser]] ''[[Japanese cruiser Yoshino|Yoshino]]'' sinks after being accidentally rammed by the [[armored cruiser]] ''[[Japanese cruiser Kasuga|Kasuga]]'', killing over 270 crew, including Captain Sayegi and his second-in-command, Commander Hirowateri.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/226/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/226/mode/2up 226-231] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co. |year=1905 |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Japan will keep the loss of ''Yashima'' secret for over a year.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1905/06/02/archives/loss-of-yashima-admitted-japan-announces-that-battleship-struck-a.html |title=Loss of YASHIMA Admitted; Japan Announces That Battleship Struck a Mine a Year Ago. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 June 1905 |page=2 |access-date=13 March 2022 |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512090801/https://www.nytimes.com/1905/06/02/archives/loss-of-yashima-admitted-japan-announces-that-battleship-struck-a.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – The International Federation of Association Football, [[FIFA]], is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ussoccer.com/history/organizational-structure/fifa |title=FIFA |publisher=[[U.S. Soccer]] |department=Organizational Structure |year=2022 |access-date=11 March 2022 |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311165210/https://www.ussoccer.com/history/organizational-structure/fifa |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Alpha Gamma Delta]], which becomes an international sorority, is founded by 11 women at [[Syracuse University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://alphagammadelta.org/about/history/ |title=History |date=November 18, 2016 |publisher=[[Alpha Gamma Delta]] |access-date=15 March 2022 |archive-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417140231/https://alphagammadelta.org/about/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1904}}
* [[June 3]] – The [[International Alliance of Women]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Liddington |first1=Jill |title=The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-militarism in Britain Since 1820 |date=1989 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-2539-1 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1VWEjQu6rv8C |access-date=2015-03-13}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – A fire aboard the steamboat ''[[General Slocum]]'' in New York City's East River kills 1,021.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/nyregion/02fatigue.html?ex=1346385600&en=7c3b9a843ec42d62&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |last=Kleinfield |first=N. R. |title=As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough? |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=2 September 2007 |access-date=26 July 2022 |quote=Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning and sinking of the steamer 'General Slocum,' the deadliest New York disaster until Sept. 11, 2001. |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124100304/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/nyregion/02fatigue.html?ex=1346385600&en=7c3b9a843ec42d62&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 16]]
** Finnish nationalist [[Eugen Schauman]] [[assassination of Nikolay Bobrikov|assassinates]] [[Nikolay Bobrikov]], the Russian [[Governor-General of Finland]], in Helsinki.<ref name="Yle">{{cite news |url=https://yle.fi/news/3-6184100 |title=Finnish fans fete new translation of Irish classic |date=15 June 2012 |website=[[Yle]] |language=en |access-date=26 July 2022 |archive-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726105323/https://yle.fi/news/3-6184100 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** 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 (novel)|Ulysses]]'' (1922) on this date.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Menand |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Menand |title=Silence, Exile, Punning: James Joyce's chance encounters. |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/02/silence-exile-punning |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |department=A Critic at Large |date=25 June 2012 |access-date=26 July 2022 |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123100705/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/02/silence-exile-punning |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ventegodt |first=Ole |title=Norge - emigrantskib |trans-title=Norge - emigrant ship |encyclopedia=[[Den Store Danske]] |date=February 2009 |via=lex.dk |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=da |url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Norge_-_emigrantskib |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727042325/https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Norge_-_emigrantskib |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Screw Steamer PIETER DE CONINCK built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd. in 1881 for Theodore C Engels, Antwerp, Passenger/Cargo |website=Scottish Built Ships |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |access-date=27 July 2022 |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=23683&vessel=PIETER+DE+CONINCK |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604101133/https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=23683&vessel=PIETER+DE+CONINCK |url-status=live }}</ref>
** The original icon of [[Our Lady of Kazan]] is stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/07/the-icon-of-our-lady-of-kazan.html#.YuC7QT3MK5d |last=DiPippo |first=Gregory |title=The Icon of Our Lady of Kazan |website=New Liturgical Movement |date=21 July 2021 |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727042322/https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/07/the-icon-of-our-lady-of-kazan.html#.YuC7QT3MK5d |url-status=live }}</ref>
** English Association football club [[Hull City A.F.C.]] is established.
* [[June 29]] – The [[1904 Moscow tornado]] occurs.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Arseniev |first=Sergey |title=СМЕРЧИ И ТОРНАДО |trans-title=WHIRLWINDS AND TORNADOES |url=https://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/SMERCHI_I_TORNADO.html |encyclopedia=[[Krugosvet]] |language=ru |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=May 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516145950/https://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/SMERCHI_I_TORNADO.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1904}}
[[File:1904summerolympicsposter.jpg|thumb|100px|[[1904 Summer Olympics]]]]
[[File:Pavlos Melas Photograph.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Pavlos Melas]]]]
* [[July]] – [[Pavlos Melas]] enters [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] with a small unit of men during the [[Macedonian Struggle]].
* [[July 1]] – The [[1904 Summer Olympics|third Modern Olympic Games]] open in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], United States, as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|World's Fair]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/editions/3 |title=1904 Summer Olympics |website=[[Olympedia]] |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 November 2022 |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115052801/https://www.olympedia.org/editions/3 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[July 22]] – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted [[Chinese South Africans|Chinese]] [[coolie]]s 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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Walter|last=Liggett|authorlink=Walter Liggett|title=The Rise of Herbert Hoover|location=New York|year=1932}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – A [[continuous track]] [[tractor]] is [[patent]]ed by [[David Roberts (engineer)|David Roberts]] of [[Richard Hornsby & Sons]] of [[Grantham]] in England.<ref>British Patent No. 16,345. {{cite book|first=Peter|last=Robinson|title=Lincoln's Excavators: The Ruston years 1875–1930|year=2003|location=Nynehead|publisher=Roundoak|isbn=1-871565-42-1}}</ref>

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1904}}
* [[August 3]] – [[British expedition to Tibet]]: The [[British Empire|British]] expedition under Colonel [[Francis Younghusband]] takes [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]], [[Tibet]].<ref>{{cite news |title=BRITISH ARE IN LHASA.; Expedition Entered Sacred City Aug. 3 Without Further Fighting. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/07/archives/british-are-in-lhasa-expedition-entered-sacred-city-aug-3-without.html |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040808.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DALAI LAMA FLEES FROM THE BRITISH Younghusband's Expedition Reaches Lassa. Invaders Pitch Camp Near the Sacred Mountain of Potala. Appearance of Tibetan Capital Agrees With Descriptions Given by Explorers. |volume=XCVI |issue=69 |date=8 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* [[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]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040817.2.28&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=HEREROS MEET WITH DEFEAT German Troops Attack the Natives Near Hamakari and Blacks Lose Heavily FIGHT LASTS ALL DAY Five of Emperor William's Officers and Nineteen Men Meet Death in the Battle |volume=XCVI |issue=78 |date=17 August 1904 |at=Page 2, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.namibia-1on1.com/battleofwaterberg.html |title=Battle of Waterberg - 11 August 1904 - Pt 1 |editor-last=Irwing |editor-first=Keith
|publisher=Namibia-1on1 |year=2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016072254/http://www.namibia-1on1.com/battleofwaterberg.html |archive-date=16 October 2018 |access-date=2 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.namibia-1on1.com/a-northern/battle-of-waterberg-2.html |title=Battle of Waterberg Pt 2 - 12 August 1904 |editor-last=Irwing |editor-first=Keith |publisher=Namibia-1on1 |year=2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916214209/http://www.namibia-1on1.com/a-northern/battle-of-waterberg-2.html |archive-date=16 September 2018 |access-date=2 August 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] – [[Ismael Montes]] becomes [[President of Bolivia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1904 - ISMAEL MONTES GAMBOA |url=https://www.museovirtualbo.com/producto/1904-ismael-montes-gamboa/ |last1=Delgadillo Pacheco |first1=Miguel |last2=Delgadillo Cervantes |first2=Miguel |publisher=www.museovirtualbo.com |language=es |access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] – [[Russo-Japanese War]]: A Japanese infantry charge fails to take [[Lüshunkou|Port Arthur]].
* [[August 18]] – [[Chris Watson]] resigns as the first Labor [[Prime Minister of Australia]] and is succeeded by [[George Reid]] ([[Free Trade Party]]).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Bede |last=Nairn |title=Watson, John Christian (Chris) (1867–1941) |dictionary=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] |publisher=[[National Centre of Biography]], [[Australian National University]] |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |year=1990 |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/in-office.aspx |title=In office - Chris Watson |archive-date=18 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218184033/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/in-office.aspx#section1 |website=[[National Archives of Australia]] |department=Australia's Prime Ministers |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] – Faroese Association football club [[Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag]] is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/teams/ki-klaksvik/1/ |title=KÍ Klaksvík » Profile |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref>
* Summer – [[Henri Matisse]] paints ''[[Luxe, Calme et Volupté]]'' at [[Saint-Tropez]]; it will be considered the starting point of [[Fauvism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dempsey |first=Amy |author-link=Amy Dempsey |year=2002 |title=Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art |pages=66–69 |location=London |publisher=[[Thames & Hudson]]}}</ref>

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1904}}
* 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 (sailor)|John Voss]] sails the rigged [[dugout canoe]] ''[[Tilikum (boat)|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.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cabot|first=Richard C.|author-link=Richard Clarke Cabot|title=The relation of alcohol to arterioscleroisis|journal=[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]|year=1904|volume=43|issue=12|pages=774–775|doi=10.1001/jama.1904.92500120002a|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1447273|access-date=2019-10-04|archive-date=April 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411134213/https://zenodo.org/record/1447273|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] – New Zealand [[dolphin]] [[Pelorus Jack]] is individually protected by [[Order in Council]] under the Sea Fisheries Act.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/P/PelorusJack/PelorusJack/en|access-date=2006-12-29|last=Alpers|first=A. F. G.|title=Pelorus Jack|encyclopedia=An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand|year=1966|archive-date=July 24, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724174656/http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/P/PelorusJack/PelorusJack/en|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== October ===
* 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]] – [[Sweden|Swedish]] Association football club [[IFK Göteborg]] is founded, becoming the 39th [[Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna|IFK-association]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Om-IFK-Goteborg/Presentation/Historik/bla/|title=IFK – 1904–1908|website=www.ifkgoteborg.se|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401123900/http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Om-IFK-Goteborg/Presentation/Historik/bla/|archive-date=April 1, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-11-03|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[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 [[List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year|first known]] public statement of the socio-legal problems faced by [[lesbian]]s.
* [[October 11]] – [[Loftus Road]] football stadium opens in London.
* [[October 13]] – [[Pavlos Melas]] is encircled at [[Melas, Kastoria|Statista]] and killed during the [[Macedonian Struggle]].
* [[October 15]] – [[Theta Tau]], a [[Professional fraternity|professional]] engineering fraternity, is founded at the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis]].
* [[October 18]] – In Germany:
** The [[Bode Museum|Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum]] opens in [[Berlin]] for the display of fine art.
** [[Gustav Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)|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 [[Panama–Uruguay relations|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]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Nicolson |editor-first=Nigel |editor-link=Nigel Nicolson |title=The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf |volume=I: 1888–1912 (Virginia Stephen) |location=London |publisher=[[Hogarth Press]] |year=1975 |isbn=0701204036}}</ref>

=== November ===
* [[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 Island|South Georgia]], is established by Norwegian sea captain [[Carl Anton Larsen]], as a [[whaling]] station for his ''[[Compañía Argentina de Pesca]]''.<ref>{{cite book|first=R. K.|last=Headland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lZ04AAAAIAAJ|title=The Island of South Georgia|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1984|isbn=0-521-25274-1|access-date=October 29, 2016|archive-date=September 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921000425/http://books.google.com/books?id=lZ04AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** English engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming]] patents the first [[thermionic]] [[vacuum tube]], the two-electrode [[diode]] ("oscillation valve" or  [[Fleming valve]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=978-1-85986-343-5}}</ref>
* [[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.
[[File:Leclerc p1040868.jpg|thumb|180px|right| [[July 23]] & [[November 24]]: [[continuous track]]]]

=== December ===
* [[December 2]] – The [[St. Petersburg Soviet]] urges a [[run on the bank]]s; the attempt fails, and the executive committee is arrested.
* [[December 3]] – [[Charles Dillon Perrine]] discovers [[Jupiter]]'s largest [[irregular satellite]], later called [[Himalia (moon)|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 [[Roosevelt Corollary|"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|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 [[streetcar]]s.
* [[December 31]] – In New York City, the first [[New Year's Eve]] celebration is held in [[Times Square]].

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* Global [[cosmetics]] companies are founded in [[Paris]] (France): [[Coty]], by [[François Coty]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wohl|first1=Jessica|title=Coty has staying power in bid for Avon|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/coty-avon-company-idUSL2E8F28HB20120402|access-date=2018-05-01|work=Reuters|date=2012-04-02|archive-date=2021-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202005550/https://www.reuters.com/article/coty-avon-company-idUSL2E8F28HB20120402|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Garnier]], by Alfred Amour Garnier.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Heritage|publisher=Garnier|url=https://www.garnierusa.com/about-garnier/our-heritage|access-date=2023-02-22|language=en|archive-date=October 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022192441/https://www.garnierusa.com/about-garnier/our-heritage|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Canada Dry Ginger Ale]] is created by John J. McLaughlin.