WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1904
Find out what all happened January to October 1904

A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000. (15. June 1904)

Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. (9. February 1904)

Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place. (10. August 1904)

The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale. (8. April 1904)

The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima. (15. May 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. (23. January 1904)

The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years. (24. April 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. (22. February 1904)

Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times. (8. April 1904)

The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. (8. January 1904)

Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. (16. June 1904)

Edmonton, Alberta is incorporated as a city. (8. October 1904)

Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley. (19. October 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-Brille in Ostend, Belgium. (21. July 1904)

Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan. (17. February 1904)

Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. (4. May 1904)

The SS Norge runs aground and sinks (28. June 1904)

British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law. (10. April 1904)

Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. (17. January 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. (5. May 1904)