What happened in 1906

19 events　North America 3, Europe 6, USSR / Russia 1, Asia 2, Middle East 1, Latin America 3, Africa 2, Oceania 1

Highlights of 1906

Jan 16EuropeThe Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
Apr 18North AmericaXerox, the global digital office machine brand, is founded in Rochester, New York as the Haloid Photographic Company.
Apr 23USSR / RussiaIn the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
Aug 23Latin AmericaUnable to control a rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. This leads to the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909.
Dec 30AsiaThe All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.
Middle EastHaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association is officially founded as a sports club in Palestine, predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel).

Apr 18Xerox, the global digital office machine brand, is founded in Rochester, New York as the Haloid Photographic Company.
Apr 18The San Francisco Earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in damages.
Dec 4Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered collegiate order of its kind.

Jan 16The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
Feb 11Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos, denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.
Mar 10Courrières mine disaster: An explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.
May 27Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 receives its premiere at the Saalbau Essen in Germany conducted by the composer.
May 31Morral affair: The attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie on their wedding day instead kills 24 bystanders.
Aug 4The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched.

Apr 23In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

Jan 12Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
Dec 30The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.

HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association is officially founded as a sports club in Palestine, predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel).

Jan 31The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths.
Aug 161906 Valparaíso earthquake: A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves nearly 4,000 dead and approximately 20,000 injured.
Aug 23Unable to control a rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. This leads to the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909.

Feb 11Two British members of a poll tax collecting expedition are killed near Richmond, Natal, sparking the Bambatha Rebellion.
Construction begins on the modern-day Great Mosque of Djenné.

Dec 26The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is first shown, at the Melbourne Athenaeum in Australia.