Important Historical Events of the year 1904, Year 1904 in History

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List of 1904 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1904

What happened in the year 1904?

Date	Event
January 7, 1904	The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
January 17, 1904	Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
January 23, 1904	Ålesund Fire: The Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
February 7, 1904	A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland;
February 8, 1904	Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, Japan starts the Russo-Japanese War.
February 8, 1904	Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
February 9, 1904	Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
February 22, 1904	The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
April 8, 1904	The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
May 4, 1904	The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 5, 1904	Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
May 10, 1904	The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
May 21, 1904	The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
June 15, 1904	A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
June 16, 1904	Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
June 16, 1904	Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
June 28, 1904	The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
July 21, 1904	Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
July 31, 1904	Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
August 10, 1904	Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
August 23, 1904	The automobile tire chain is patented.
August 25, 1904	Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Liaoyang begins.
October 20, 1904	Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
October 27, 1904	The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
November 16, 1904	English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 3, 1904	The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
December 6, 1904	Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
December 7, 1904	Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.