This page relates to the year 1904 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

  • international Socialist congress of Amsterdam.
  • Following the death of Theodor Herzl, David Wolffsohn (1856-1914), takes the direction of the movement Zionist. It is also the beginning of the third vagueness of immigration of the Jews ( aliya ) towards Palestine.

Europe

  • Belgium: The Nobel Prize of peace is allotted to the Institute of international law of Ghent.

  • Spain: Adoption of the Sunday rest.
  • the Austria produces 34 million tons of coal.
  • At the autonomous Parliament of Zagreb, the Croatian nationalists create a coalition with the Serb ones, directed by Franco Supilo, Ante Trumbic and Serb the Pribijevic.
  • the Hungary account 14 national trade-union organizations, with 408 groups and 17 local trade-union companies.

France

See also: 1904 in France

Swiss

  • the last bear of the country is cut down with Scuol (September 1st).
  • the Socialists adopt a program preaching the class struggle.
  • the Swiss Federation of ski is born with Olten.
  • Basle begins the construction of a port on the Rhine.
  • Bern: Inauguration of the federal Palate.
  • Vaud : François Chabbey begins his long crossing of the desert.

Italy

  • March 26th: Guillaume II of Germany and Victor-Emmanuel III of Italy meet in the gulf of Naples. Meanwhile, the italo-Austrian relations, disturbed by incidents anti-Italian at the university of Innsbruck, improve.
  • April 24th: Official visit of the president Emile Loubet with Rome.
  • September 17th: Leon XIII pronounces the dissolution of the Œuvre of the Congresses which preaches the constitution of a party Christian-Democrat independent of the Church.
  • September 17th: Birth with Racconigi of Humbert, king in 1946.
  • September 27th: Giovanni Giolitti returns visit to the German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow to dissipate the caused concerns with Berlin by the Franco-Italian bringing together.
  • September: Series of strikes, of which a general strike in September. Giolitti refuses to intervene and its attitude prevents the movement from taking revolutionary dimensions. The pope gives to the catholic candidates the tacit authorization to present himself to legislative to counter the red peril.
  • November: Legislative elections. Benefitting from the favourable economic situation, Giolitti requires of the king the dissolution of the Room. The results are favorable for him. Many catholics vote publicly.

Russia

Dates of the Calendar Julien.

Africa

  • March 23rd: Creation of the Congo Reform Association of Edmund Dene Morel (1904 - 1913), which denounces the Congolese atrocities: fires of village, massacres with rifle shot, by hanging or crucifixion, mutilation of the adults supposed hostile with the harvest of the rubber.
  • April 8th: The the United Kingdom and the France conclude an agreement from Harmony on their respective spheres of influence in North Africa and Asia.
  • July 24th: Creation of an international commission to inquire into the practices used in the production of the rubber (political of the cut hands, taking of hostages…).
  • October 3rd: The France and the Spain manage an agreement on the division of their influence to the Morocco.
  • October 18th: Decree instituting the colony of high Senegal-Niger, including/understanding the military territory of Zinder.
  • the December 2nd, the French captains Aguttes and Prokos run up against plunderers Oulad Djerrir to about fifty kilometers of Tombouctou. They put them in rout but cannot continue them, fault of having sufficient Méharis.

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

    • Meeting with the well of Timiaouine of the colonel Laperrine and the captain Théveniaut, first junction enters the French troops of North Africa and those of Black Africa. The two officers agree to make pass the southernmost border of the Algérie between the place of their meeting and the well of In-Ouzel, located at the North-East.

    • Forwardings of Viallate and Niéger to the the Western Sahara.
    • Forwarding of Nice Segonzac and to the Morocco.
    • Insurrection of Malagasy South-east.
    • Revolt anyang with the Cameroun.
    • the priests Kandunu encourage the revolt Bailundu in central Africa. Epikilipikili founds a xenophobe sect and immunizes the warriors against the balls of the White.
    • Creation of the Indian Association off Mombasa .
    • Massed Agreement : establishment of concerning the Masaïs with the Kenya. The promises made in Masaïs will not be held (free access to the water points, adjacency or permanent means of communication between the reserves).

Southern Africa

  • January 11th: Beginning of the revolt of the Nama and the Hereros in the South-western German African (1904 - 1906). The governor Lothar von Trotha conducts against them a campaign devastator. On 60  000 with 80  000 Africans, there remain nothing any more but 16  about it; 000 in 1907. The South-western African account then 3  000 German colonists, more 1  500 Europeans of other nationalities.

  • Arrest and died of the brigand Kadungure Mapondera. Since the years 1890, being opposed to the establishment Europeans, it prevails with the Mozambique and Southern Rhodesia, with the head of an trained troop and army, which attacks the colonial army, the tax department, the recruiting agents and the commercial companies. Other gang leaders prevail at the same time: Dambakushamba, Samakungu and Moave in Mozambique, Mundu and Orloog in Angola, Kasongo Nyembo and Kiamfu with the Belgian Congo.

The Middle East

  • Insurrection of Sassoun carried out by Andranik: the Arménie NS hold in failure for two months thirteen battalions Turkish supported by Kurdish thousands of .

Asia & Indian world

  • War Russo-Japanese woman (1904 - 1905):
    • Night of the 8 to the February 9th: Attacks surprised of the Japanese against the Russian fleet of Port-Arthur. The Japan runs three Russian ships (Bataille of Chemulpo) without declaration of war, which arrives only three days afterwards. The Japanese troops engage a heavy operation of unloading then are blocked for seven months on the coast, with Dalian (Dairen or Port-Arthur).
    • February 9th: Release of the War Russo-Japanese woman between the Japan and the Russia. Combat in Mandchourie and Korea.
    • April 8th: The the United Kingdom and the France conclude an agreement ( Harmony ) on their respective spheres of influence in North Africa and Asia.
    • : The Japan declares the war with the China in connection with the Korea.
    • August-September: Japanese is victorious Russians with Liao-yang.
    • August 25th September 1st: Reprocess Russian on Moukden.
    • August 10th: The Russian fleet of Vladivostok is demolished in Port-Arthur by the Japanese.
    • October 21st: Incidents Russo-British in the zone of Doggerbank, during the war nippo-Russian.

  • the government of the the United States prohibits the granting of any new agreement of work to workmen Japan board.

Central Asia

  • August 3rd: The the United Kingdom imposes its protectorate on the Tibet.
    • the Tibet, practically released of Chinese suzerainty, is invaded by the British of the colonel Francis Younghusband, who worry about the Russian expansion in Central Asia. After the massacre of Kuru, the British advance until Lhassa where the official Tibetans must meet them. They manage to obtain trade agreements. The Dalai Lama flees towards the Mongolia.
    • the journalist Perceval Landon (1869 - 1927), correspondent of the Times , which accompanies forwarding by Younghusband, observes the company Tibetan and brings back sketch and photographs.

Southeast Asia

  • Beginning of the reign of Sisovath, king of the Kampuchea (fine in 1927). Modernization of the Kampuchea. Economic development attracts many Chinese and Vietnameses but suffers from the crisis of 1929.
  • the Laos obtains Siam the territory of Bassac.
  • France obtains territories Siam ois in the west of the Mekong in 1904 and 1907. A free-Siamese treaty makes it possible the Kampuchea to increase in the north of Kampong Thom and in south-west in the area of Koh Kong.
  • Van Heutsz becomes general governor of the Indonesia (fine in 1909). It puts in application the “etic policy” or “of the moral way” (1900 - 1913): education of the natives, massive investment.
    • the ethical policy aims at developing the educational agriculture and social services and, as well as the railroads, the maritime roads and services between the islands. It involves progress in the field of the public health, but is insufficient vis-a-vis the Sous-alimentation. The most complete measurements are limited to the European districts or the areas where large European interests are in question: the development of the irrigation is conceived according to the plantations of cane with sugar and the natives benefit from it only when there is an alternation of rice and the cane with sugar.
  • Treated between the Netherlands and the Portugal for the division of Timor.

Americas

  • May 4th: Recovery, by American, of work of boring of the vacant Panama Canal left by French Ferdinand de Lesseps, following the Scandal of Panama.

  • 1 {{er}} October: Beginning of construction with Mexico City, on the site occupied formerly by the convent Santa Isabel, of the Palacio de Bellas Artes ( Palate of the Art schools ), by the Italian architect Adamo Boeri, with an aim of offering to the country a National theater.

  • Civil war in Uruguay (1904-1905). Military defeat of the Blancos in Uruguay, sanctioned by the Peace of Aceguá. The system of Co-government ( coparticipación ) into force since the revolution of 1897, disappears.

    • Jose Batlle Ordóñez denounces there the practice according to which the President of the Republic exerted the power inside his party ( influencia directriz ). It can then engage of the reforms on three points: independence of the economy with respect to outside and industrialization, welfare benefits towards the working class, democratization of the mode.

  • Political instability with the Paraguay (1904-1912).

  • Intervention étasunienne in the customs businesses of Santo Domingo.

Canada

  • April 19th: Large fire of Toronto.
  • October 19th: Inauguration of the first vault on theRoyal one dedicated to St-Joseph. The Brother Andre, the founder, will increase it until the construction of the current basilica of the Oratoire St-Joseph.
  • November 3rd: Wilfrid Bay-tree, (liberal), is re-elected Prime Minister for the Canada after the victory of the Liberals, who obtain 139 seats at the Parliament on 214.
  • November 25th: Simon-Napoleon Parent (liberal) is re-elected Prime Minister with the Quebec (25/11).

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

    • Henri Bourassa starts to plead in favor of the use of the Bilinguisme in the federal institutions.
    • Construction of the Large Trunk Pacific Railway (fine in 1914).

the United States

  • February 7th: Fire of Baltimore.
  • March 14th: The first measurement against the trusts of the Roosevelt administration: the Northern Securities Co. is dissolved in the name of the Loi Sherman.
  • April 30th: With the the United States, opening of the World Fair of Saint-Louis.
  • July 1st: With the the United States, opening of the Olympic Games of Saint-Louis.
  • October 27th: Opening of the first underground line of the town of New York between City Hall and Harlem.
  • November 8th: Theodore Roosevelt (R) is re-elected president of the the United States.
  • December 6th: “Corollary Roosevelt”: in front of the Congress, Roosevelt supplements the Doctrine of Monroe. The United States assumes the right to intervene on all the American continent in the event of local disorders or of interference of foreign nations. The United States would be ready to assume the role of an international police force. President Roosevelt uses the image of the “large stick”. ( big stick ) to describe this new policy. The corollary will be repealed in 1923.

  • Mediation of Roosevelt between the Russia and Japan, which leads to the Traité of Portsmouth (August 1905).

  • 318 trusts, whose capital rises with more than 7 billion dollars, control 40% of the American production.
  • In 1904,27  000 workers find death on their work place in the sectors industrialist, of transport and agriculture.
  • Multiplication of the social conflicts: 4000 in 1904 for a thousand per annum on average in the years 1890.

Chronologies sets of themes

Arts & cultures

See also: 1904 with the cinema, 1904 in music, 1904 in literature, 1904 with the theater, 1904 as a cartoon

  • June: Birth of the Bridge.
  • Creation of the Committee of the Hebraic language ( Va' AD Halashon ).

Art schools

Aeronautics

See also: 1904 in aeronautics

Railroads

See also: 1904 in the railroads

Sciences & technology

See also: 1904 in science

Sports

See also: 1904 in sport

Nobel Prize

Births in 1904

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Death in 1904

Beats-smg: 1904 Be-X-old: 1904 Map-bms: 1904 Simple: 1904 Zh-yue: 1904 年

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