Year 1906 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1906

The year 1906 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1906 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

World Events

Important Historical Events of the Year 1906 in World ⚡

Date	Incident/Event
22 january	The SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island,British Columbia, Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
10 february	The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched,representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
18 march	Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
14 april	The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.
18 april	A major earthquake and resulting fires devastated San Francisco, killing at least 3,000 people and leaving more than half of the city's population homeless.
26 may	Benjamin Peary Pal was born. Benjamin Peary Pal was the first Director of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was one of the foremost scientists in Wheat genetics and breeding. He was a bachelor and donated his property to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1987.
26 may	Vauxhall Bridge in London opened, crossing the River Thamesbetween Vauxhall and Westminster.
27 may	Maharashtra sahitya parishad was established in Pune. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature”. The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body.
26 june	The first Grand Prix motor racing event held. The 1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, commonly known as the 1906 French Grand Prix, was a motor race held on 26 and 27 June 1906, on closed public roads outside the city of Le Mans. The Grand Prix was organized by the Automobile Club de France (ACF) at the prompting of the French automobile industry as an alternative to the Gordon Bennett races, which limited each competing country's number of entries regardless of the size of its industry.
27 june	`Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad' established. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature". It was set up in Pune. The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body.
13 august	The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment were accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; allwere later dishonorably discharged.
16 august	An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hit Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
21 august	Scandal rocked polite Virginia society when it was discovered that a local optician, a dentist, and a doctor performed an illegal abortion on a prominent woman. Miss Keener who had the abortion worked as a receptionist at Dr. Badgley’s dental office. Each of the doctors had to post a bond of $3,000 each and were to appear in court later.
20 september	The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship inthe world at the time, was launched.
24 november	A local newspaper accused members of two teams of conspiring todeliberately lose games, the first major scandal in American football.
15 december	The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, a14.17-kilometre (8.80 mi) long deep-level underground tube railwayconnecting Hammersmith and Finsbury Park, London, opened.
24 december	Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over the radio (Mass).
30 december	The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India That developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan asa Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent, was founded in Dhaka.
22 May	The Wright brothers received a patent from the US for their flying machine.
22 June	Sweden adopted the national flag.
26 June	The first Grand Prix was held. This competition lasted 12 hours.
17 July	Clement Armand Falières was elected President of France.
03 September	India's famous film actor Prithviraj Kapoor was born in Peshawar (now Pakistan).
11 September	The country's national father Mahatma Gandhi, for the first time, called 'Satyagraha', the non-violent movement that started the rights of Indians in South Africa.
16 September	Roald Emundson of Norway discovered the magnetic south pole.
22 November	International radio telecommunications code was adopted, SOS service was introduced for emergencies.
06 August	Prominent freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das and other Congress leaders jointly started the publication of Vande Mataram newspaper.
16 August	An earthquake of 8.6 magnitude struck the South American country of Chile, killing about twenty thousand people.
30 December	The All India Muslim League was established in Dhaka, which later demanded Pakistan.
07 March	Finland got women the right to vote.
17 March	About 1200 people died in the Taiwan earthquake.
21 March	Jim Thomson, an American businessman who saved the Thai silk industry, was born.
18 April	An earthquake and fire in San Francisco killed about 4000 people.
22 January	SS Valencia Vancouver Island attacked a Canadian rock, killing 138 people.
15 February	The British Labor Party was established.
10 March	1,060 killed in a French coal mine explosion
23 April	The fundamental law was announced in Russia's first state of Duma.
26 June	The first Grand Prix was held in Le Mans, France.
07 June	The Canard liner launched RMS Lucetia as the world's largest ship in Glasgow.
06 July	The second Geneva conference was completed.
23 August	Unable to stop the rebellion, Cuban President Tomas Estrada Palma requested intervention from the United States.
11 September	Mahatma Gandhi started the coinage Satyagraha to mark the non-violence movement in South Africa.
06 October	The Majlis was held for the first time in Iran.
03 November	SOS became an international crisis signal.
26 December	The world's first feature film, The Story of the Cali Gang, was released.

India Events

Important Historical Events of the Year 1906 in India ⚡

Date	Incident/Event
26 may	Benjamin Peary Pal was born. Benjamin Peary Pal was the first Director of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was one of the foremost scientists in Wheat genetics and breeding. He was a bachelor and donated his property to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1987.
27 may	Maharashtra sahitya parishad was established in Pune. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature”. The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body.
27 june	`Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad' established. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature". It was set up in Pune. The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body.
30 december	The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India That developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan asa Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent, was founded in Dhaka.
03 September	India's famous film actor Prithviraj Kapoor was born in Peshawar (now Pakistan).
11 September	The country's national father Mahatma Gandhi, for the first time, called 'Satyagraha', the non-violent movement that started the rights of Indians in South Africa.
30 December	The All India Muslim League was established in Dhaka, which later demanded Pakistan.