In 1904 Athletic secured the lease on the Recreation Ground from underneath United and Torquay and District League rivals Ellacombe took over the lease of Plainmoor leaving United homeless for the first time in their existence and facilitating a return to the farmers fields on Teignmouth Road, however the club was on the move again when the fields were sold to be developed into what would later be known as Parkhurst Road.

By 1904 Farish and Robert Lee Blaffer had formed a partnership to do contract drilling and lease trading.

Stamford Bridge opened in 1877 as a home for the London Athletics Club and was used almost exclusively for that purpose until 1904, when the lease was acquired by brothers Gus and Joseph Mears, who wanted to stage high-profile professional football matches there.

The lease was signed on 13 October 1904, for a rent of £ 75 per year.

Its bankruptcy resulted in economic chaos, bringing on the financial panic of 1893 and forcing the LVRR to break the lease and resume its own operations, leaving it unable to pay dividends on its stock until 1904.

The Potomac Railroad lease was transferred to the Washington Southern on June 30, 1904.

In 1904 the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad acquired control of the CNE, but continued to operate it separately, but the lease of the Dutchess County Railroad was assigned to the NYNH & H on December 1.

In 1904, A. H. Tee took over the lease on St Ann's Well Gardens, and Smith moved to a new home in Southwick, Sussex, dubbed Laboratory Lodge, where with finance from Charles Urban, he went on to develop the Lee and Turner process, which had been acquired by Urban following the death of Edward Raymond Turner in 1903, into the first successful colour film process, Kinemacolor.

In 1904, the rugby club secured the lease of the Recreation Ground, where United had been playing, and United's Torquay and District League rivals Ellacombe moved into the vacated site at Plainmoor, leaving United homeless.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Due to the Anglo-Boer War, the first census of Bechuanaland Protectorate, originally set to occur in 1901, took place on 17 April 1904.

The Australia of 1904 saw exactly the same kit as in 1899, and it seemed that the British touring sides had settled on kits particular to the host destination.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

Leon Trotsky at first supported the Mensheviks, but left them in September 1904 over their insistence on an alliance with Russian liberals and their opposition to a reconciliation with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Both Lewis and Kossel structured their bonding models on that of Abegg's rule ( 1904 ).

Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics and roque, an American variation on croquet, an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

The team went on to win the Georgia state championship in 1903, 1904, and 1905.

After one-hitting Boston on May 2, 1904, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell taunted Young to face him so that he could repeat his performance against Boston's ace.

In 1904 the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had also purchased nearby land ( formerly a large market garden ) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12. 5 acre ( 51, 000 m² ) site.

Fleming patented the first true thermionic diode, the Fleming valve, in Britain on November 16, 1904 ( followed by in November 1905 ).

The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

In fact from 1904 Kraepelin changed the section heading to ' The born criminal ', moving it from under ' Congenital feeblemindedness ' to a new chapter on ' Psychopathic personalities '.

* 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.

He did not abandon mathematics completely, however, lecturing on the paradoxes of set theory ( Burali-Forti paradox, Cantor's paradox, and Russell's paradox ) to a meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker – Vereinigung in 1903, and attending the International Congress of Mathematicians at Heidelberg in 1904.

Aerial photography, taken from Eduard Spelterini's balloon on 21 November 1904

The original version of Madama Butterfly, premiered at La Scala on February 17, 1904, was initially greeted with great hostility ( probably largely owing to inadequate rehearsals ).

He lived with the Elkingtons until 1904, when he moved into his own bungalow and began earning a living working on the Non Pareil tea estate below the Horton Plains.

The move to its present location on Whitworth Road took place in 1904.

* 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.

In 1904 the artist and writer Wynford Dewhurst wrote the first important study of the French painters published in English, Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development, which did much to popularize Impressionism in Great Britain.

: One century ago, in November 1904, John Ambrose Fleming FRS, Pender Professor at UCL, filed in Great Britain, for a device called the Thermionic Valve.

* The Great Companion ( 1904 ; new edition published September 1906 )

Grundy ( 1904 ), which he acquired when he was reading the classics with Mr Kirkpatrick at Great Bookham.

According to Crowley, the story began on 16 March 1904, when he tried to " shew the Sylphs " by use of the Bornless Ritual to his wife, Rose Edith Kelly, while spending the night in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

* February 7, 1904 — The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, USA destroys over 1, 500 buildings in 30 hours.

In 1904, the Lucin Cutoff, a causeway across the center of the Great Salt Lake, shortened the route by approximately, traversing Promontory Point instead of Promontory Summit.

* Great Toronto Fire – 1904

* Townshend, D., The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork, 1904.

Ventriloquist The Great Lester with Frank Byron, Jr. on his knee, c. 1904

In 1904, the Great Northern railroad came to the area.

The Great Northern Railway was built through what is now Whitefish in 1904, which sparked development of the town.

The Great Neck Vigilant Fire Company was founded in 1904.

There was significant sugar beet traffic on the river between 1925 and 1959, with the last known commercial traffic occurring in 1974. Leisure boating had been popular since 1904, and the post-war period saw the creation of the Great Ouse Restoration Society in 1951, who campaigned for complete renovation of the river.

Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West returned to Europe in December 1902 with a fourteen-week run in London complete with a visit from King Edward VII and the future King George V. The Wild West traveled throughout Great Britain during the 1902-03 tour as well as the 1904 tour, performing in nearly every city large enough to support it.

Although U. S. capital investments within the Philippines and Puerto Rico were relatively small ( figures that would seemingly detract from the broader economic implications on first glance ), " imperialism " for the United States, formalized in 1904 by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, would also spur its displacement of Britain as the predominant investor in Latin America — a process largely completed by the end of the Great War.

In 1904 he took part in a ' motorcade ' when he was driven around Great Britain, stopping off in cities, towns and villages to preach to the assembled crowds from inside his open-top car.

However, the Great Northern eventually opposed the scheme, and the line opened in 1904 with the northern terminus in tunnels underneath the mainline Finsbury Park station.

Besides editions of English classics his works include a Life of Queen Victoria ( 1902 ), Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth century ( 1904 ), based on his Lowell Institute lectures at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1903, Shakespeare and the Modern Stage ( 1906 ), and King Edward VII, a Biography ( 1925 ).

In 1905, under von Schlieffen, he joined the Second Section of the Great General Staff in Berlin, responsible for the Mobilisation Section from 1904 – 13.

The " Iron Building ", as it was called, was destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.

The SDF battled through defections of its right and left wings to other organizations during the first decade of the 20th Century before uniting with other radical groups to establish the Marxist British Socialist Party from 1911 until 1920 ( not to be confused with the current Socialist Party of Great Britain founded in 1904, and the Socialist Party ( England and Wales ) founded in 1997 ).

Others, tending to be based in London, left to form the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1904.

In October 1904, the Baptist Union of Great Britain passed a resolution to invite a Congress to meet with them in July 1905.