Important Historical Events of the year 1906, Year 1906 in History
List of 1906 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1906
What happened in the year 1906?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 22, 1906 | SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. |
| February 10, 1906 | HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened. |
| February 11, 1906 | Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos. |
| February 18, 1906 | Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels. |
| March 5, 1906 | Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. |
| March 10, 1906 | The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France. |
| March 22, 1906 | The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris. |
| March 31, 1906 | The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States. |
| April 7, 1906 | Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. |
| April 7, 1906 | The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. |
| April 8, 1906 | Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies. |
| April 14, 1906 | The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles. |
| April 18, 1906 | An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. |
| April 22, 1906 | The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens. |
| April 27, 1906 | The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time. |
| May 2, 1906 | Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. |
| May 6, 1906 | The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar). |
| May 22, 1906 | The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". |
| June 7, 1906 | Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. |
| June 8, 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value. |
| June 25, 1906 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White. |
| June 26, 1906 | The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans. |
| June 30, 1906 | The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. |
| July 11, 1906 | Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. |
| July 20, 1906 | In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote. |
| August 5, 1906 | Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy. |
| August 13, 1906 | The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.) |
| August 16, 1906 | The 8.2 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people. |
| September 7, 1906 | Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France successfully for the first time. |
| September 12, 1906 | The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. |
| September 13, 1906 | The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. |
| September 18, 1906 | The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people. |
| September 24, 1906 | U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument. |
| September 24, 1906 | Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation. |
| September 25, 1906 | Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control. |
| September 30, 1906 | The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain. |
| October 11, 1906 | San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students. |
| October 23, 1906 | Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe. |
| November 9, 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. |
| November 24, 1906 | A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football. |
| December 4, 1906 | Alpha Phi Alpha the first intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity for African-Americans was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. |
| December 10, 1906 | U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field. |
| December 15, 1906 | The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens. |
| December 22, 1906 | An Mw 7.9 earthquake strikes Xinjiang, China, killing at least 280. |
| December 24, 1906 | Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. |
| December 30, 1906 | The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh). |
| December 31, 1906 | Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906. |