General
Population: 1.71 Billion*
- Business: Night-shift work for women internationally forbidden
- Entertainment: Top songs include The Grand Old Rag, Anchors Aweigh, Keep On The Sunny Side,
Waltz Around Again Willie, The Caissons Go Rolling Along
Writing includes John Galsworthy, Paul Claudel, Pinero, O Henry, Gerhart Hauptmann, Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Albert Schweitzer (Quest of the Historical Jesus),
Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman), Winston S. Churchill writes about his father
Art includes Georges Rouault, Aristide Maillol, Walter Sickert
Music includes Massenet, Ethel Smyth, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Max von Schillings, Elgar
Mozart Festival in Slazburg
Nazimova debuts in Hedda Gabler
Ruth St. Denis introduces modern dancing
- Medicine: First Tb immunizations
Clemens von Pirquet introduces term allergy
- Politics: Teddy Roosevelt receives Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating end of Russo-Japanese war
- Religion: Jesuit general Franz X Wernz reforms the order
- Science: Frederick Hopkins identifies vitamins and their role in nutrition
JJ Thomson awarded Nobel Prize for physics
Harden discovers cases of catalysis among enzymes
Roald Amundsen determines position of magnetic north
Oldham discovers structure of earth from earthquake records
- Technology: Vacuum tube invented
S.O.S. created as universal help
First radio broadcast
- Transportation: Traian Vuia flies self-propelled aircraft
- Deaths: Pierre Curie, Aviator Samuel P. Langley, Merchant Marshall Field, German politician Eugen Richter, Paul Cézanne, Henrik Ibsen,
Historian Albert Sorel
Africa
- General: Chief Bambata leads Zulu revolt
- Abyssinia: (Ethiopia) Tripartite pact seeks to preserve integrity of Ethiopia
- Egypt: British ultimatum forces Turkey to cede Sinai Peninsula to Egypt
- Morocco: Control of Morocco split between Spain and France with Germany having holds - rights confirmed in Algeciras Conference
- South Africa: Self-Government granted to the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies
Americas
- General: Earthquake off Colombia and Ecuador estimated at 8.8 killing 1000
- Canada: Roald Amundsen completes NW Passage
- Chile: Earthquake
- Cuba: US troops occupy Cuba after reconciliation following Liberal Revolt fails
- Panama: Yellow Fever lessened in zone due to radical mosquito-elimination project
Segregation in canal zone – silver vs. gold (blacks/West Indies locals paid in silver while skilled whites were paid in gold)
President Roosevelt visits canal zone – huge P.R. effort 12 days on isthmus
Asia
- China: Floods
China and Britain agree to reduction of opium production
- Hong Kong: Cyclone and storm surge in Hong Kong kills 10,000
- India: (Bangladesh) The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dhaka by Aga Khan
Plague
- Japan: Quake
Europe
- General: Navy arms race escalates
Edward VIII of England and William II of Germany meet
Simplon Tunnel between Italy and Switzerland opened
First powered airplane flight in Europe
- France: General Dreyfus declared innocent
Armand Fallieres elected President
Andre Antoine takes over management of Odeon Theater in Paris
Grand Prix race first run
- Germany: Magazine writer Maximilian Harden attacks Emperor William and corrupt court camarilla
The case of the cobbler Wilhelm Voight (Captain of Koepenick) in Berlin
- Great Britain: End of Conservative rule in Britain and 29 working-class socialists elected - Labour Party formed
Patents Act and Merchant Shipping Act adopted
HMS Dreadnought revolutionizes warship design - Huge
Irish crown jewels stolen
English Hymnal collected
- Italy: Vesuvius erupts
Giovanni Giolitti Prime Minister
- Netherlands: Beginning of Zuider Zee drainage scheme
- Norway: Fridtjof Nansen etc. writes about Norwegian North Pole Expedition
- Russia: First national assembly (Duma) meets
Famine
Reform Laws promulgated
Peter Stolypin Prime Minister
- Spain: Joao Franco becomes Prime Minister
- Sweden: Riots
- Switzerland: Swiss try to brothers and dog for murder – dog sentenced to death but men get life imprisonment
2nd Geneva convention
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Young Turks committee moves form Geneva to Salonika
- Persia: Liberal revolution – Shah Nasir ud-Din grants constitution
Pacific
- Australia: Duties introduced on imports
- New Hebrides: Britain and France joint rule
- Tahiti: Typhoon
1906 
