The first stage was the construction of the northern wing beginning 1906.

However, by 1906, the English Court of Appeal had made it clear in the decision of Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co v Cunningham 2 Ch 34 that the division of powers between the board and the shareholders in general meaning depended on the construction of the articles of association and that, where the powers of management were vested in the board, the general meeting could not interfere with their lawful exercise.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

The firm's initial location was in Naples, but even before the construction of the planned factory had started, Darracq decided late in 1906 that Milan would be a more suitable location and accordingly a tract of land was acquired in the Milan suburb of Portello, where a new factory of was erected.

Britain's First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher argued the Japanese victory at Tsushima confirmed the importance of large guns and speed on modern battleships, and in October 1905 the British began construction of HMS Dreadnought, which upon her launching in 1906 began a dreadnought naval arms race between Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.

Its success due to: the incorporation of nearby Birmingham and the beginning of iron ore production there ; the building of the Georgia Pacific Railway from Birmingham to Atlanta ; and the construction of a Portland Cement manufacturing plant in 1906.

The town experienced two distinct economic booms: the first, short-lived, with the construction of the Wichita Valley rail line in 1880, and the second due to the discovery of oil in 1906.

Victoria was founded in 1906 as a planned community on what had been largely undeveloped land during the construction of the Tidewater Railway.

1906 also saw the start of construction of the line between Vancouver and Portland.

In New York City construction on the Long Island Motor Parkway ( Vanderbilt Parkway ) began in 1906 and planning for the Bronx River Parkway in 1907.

In 1906, Andrew Carnegie awarded a grant of $ 2000 toward the construction of a Carnegie library in Raymond, and in 1908 the Dudley-Tucker Library opened overlooking the Common.

In 1906, Russia's Sino-Russian Transport Bank financed the construction of the road from the pass to Kashgar for 20 million rubles.

In 1906, Berkshire County began survey and construction of another approach, the first direct route from the south to the summit.

The launching of HMS Dreadnought ( 1906 ) revolutionized battleship construction, leaving many ships obsolete before they were completed.

) Contemporary scholars dispute the veracity of the claim that construction work continued, except for brief periods, after the 1906 earthquake.

Along with the construction of the new Grand Central Terminal, opened in 1912, the NYC electrified its lines, beginning on December 11, 1906 with suburban multiple unit service to High Bridge on the Hudson Line.

The station was opened on 10 March 1906 by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ( BS & WR ); In the original parliamentary authority for the construction of the BS & WR no station was allowed at Regent's Park.

In 1906, the Scott government spent nearly $ 100, 000 on highway construction – a figure which would increase tenfold over the course of Scott's first term in office.

Though Beaux-Arts architecture of the twentieth century might on its surface appear out of touch with the modern age, steel-frame construction and other modern innovations in engineering techniques and materials were often embraced, as in the 1914 – 1916 construction of the Carolands Chateau south of San Francisco ( which was built with a consciousness of the devastating 1906 earthquake ).

The river drains the cave and controls the master base level of the Mammoth Cave system: the construction of a dam at Brownsville in 1906 has raised the water level in some parts of the cave system by as much as above its natural value.

Between 1905 – 1906, he was chief engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, returning to the NP in 1906 as chief engineer and also vice-president and engineer in charge of construction of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.

In 1906, only one case of yellow fever was reported, and up until the end of the Panama Canal's construction, there were zero.

By 1906, he was studying music full-time ; by 1907, he began composition lessons.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

He began his military education at the Baoding Military Academy, in 1906.

By 1906, Beaux began to live year-round at Green Alley, in a comfortable colony of " cottages " belonging to her wealthy friends and neighbors.

Following the Welsh Revival, the Azusa Street Revival in 1906 began the spread of Pentecostalism in North America.

Once the 1906 season got underway, many programs began experimenting with the forward pass.

Such racing began in 1906 and, in the second half of the 20th century, became the most popular kind of racing internationally.

Between 1906 and 1909 the Hawks family began to spend more time in Pasadena, California during the cold Wisconsin winters in order to improve Helen Hawks's ill health.

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

Meanwhile the Muslims for the first time began to organize, setting up the All India Muslim League in 1906.

However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.

Left and right defence began to replace the point and cover point positions in 1906 in the OHA.

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

His early style was that of an illustrator ; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906.

The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy following the Stolypin reform, which began in 1906.

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

Between 1906 and 1910, he served an apprenticeship with painter Carl Senff, and began painting his first landscapes.

The political history of the nation began with the birth of the All India Muslim League in 1906 to protect Muslim interests, amid neglect and under-representation, in case the British Raj decided to grant local self-rule.

Following the passage of the Papua Act, 1905, British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua, and formal Australian administration began in 1906, although Papua remained de jure a British possession until the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975.

In 1906, convinced he could resolve the conundrum of Uranus's orbit, he began an extensive project to search for a trans-Neptunian planet, which he named Planet X.

At the same time, the first Romanian language newspapers and journals began to appear: Basarabia ( 1906 ), Viața Basarabiei ( 1907 ), Moldovanul ( 1907 ), Luminătorul ( 1908 ), Cuvînt moldovenesc ( 1913 ), Glasul Basarabiei ( 1913 ).

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed parts of the Main Quad ( including the original iteration of Memorial Church ) as well as the gate that first marked the entrance of the school ; rebuilding on a somewhat less grandiose scale began immediately.