From the National Library of Ireland
This photograph is thought to be from Sunday the 9th of October, 1904. Horses wait in a queue in the market town of Dromore in County Down.
Dromore is now in Northern Ireland.
Tag Archives: 1904
On this day: the sinking of the SS Norge
SS Norge in the late nineteenth century. X
On the 28th of June, 1904 Danish passenger liner SS Norge ran aground near Rockall in the North Atlantic Ocean and sank.
Over 635 people died, with the highest number of victims coming from Norway.
The liner sank twelve minutes after the accident, pulling many who had tried to jump to safety underwater with it, and drowning them.
Herman Wildenvey
Those who survived were saved by British and German ships. One of the survivors was Norwegian poet Herman Wildenvey.
Irish Dance History
Cassie O’Neill of Glenarm, (now in Northern Ireland) dances at a Feis in 1904. The term “feis” today refers to an Irish dance competition.
New Year 1905
Baby 1905 chases old 1904 into the history books.
German Christmas, 1904.
On this day: New York’s first subway line opened
On the 27th of October, 1904, New York’s first subway line opened. It came three and a half decades after the city’s first elevated train was run. The first day of the subway line saw more than 150 000 passengers pay $0.05 for a journey on the train.
City Hall subway station.
On this day: Russia’s Lithuanian press ban was lifted
Illegal and legal versions of the same prayer book.
Imposed by the Russian Empire, Lithuanian language publication in Lithuania was banned for some forty years, and finally lifted on the 24th of April, 1904.
This was one of many attempts to stop the rise of nationalism throughout the non-Russian regions of the Russian Empire.
The ban made it illegal to print, import, distribute or possess any publications in the Latin alphabet.
On this day: The Battle of Port Arthur in 1904
The 9th of February, 1904 marked the conclusion of the two-day Battle of Port Arthur, and the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. The war was sparked by a Russian desire to expand their territory in the Pacific Ocean and to set up a second port in the east.
The war would last until September 1905, and would result in a victory for Japan.
A Japanese print showing the destruction of Russian ships.
London 1904
On this day: Ålesund burns in 1904
The Ålesund Fire happened in the Norwegian city of Ålesund on the 23rd of January, 1904.
The city centre was almost entirely destroyed, as most of the buildings were made of wood.
The only person known to die was an elderly lady who went back to her house for her bag.
Picture from the National Library of Norway
In Times Gone By... 
