Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1906.

Year 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

January

January 1: British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
January 8: A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21.
January 22: The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 passengers in the ensuing disaster.
January 31: An earthquake (8.6 on the Richter scale) strikes Ecuador.
8 February – The Liberal Party, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, wins the United Kingdom general election with a large majority.

February

February 11: Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
February 15: Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the U.K. Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
February 28: Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.

March

The March issue of Tom Watson's Magazine carries Fort's short story "A Radical Corpuscle".
March 3: A sentry at Windsor Castle saw something and fired at it! (Books647)
March 10: An explosion in a coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1,060.
March 15: Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
March 18: Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.

April

The April edition of Tom Watson's Magazine publishes Fort's short story "Those That Are Joined Together".
April 7: Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 14: The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA by W.J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival, an event which launches the Pentecostal Movement in Christianity.
April 18: The 1906 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. (Books812)

May

The May edition of Tom Watson's Magazine publishes the short story "Ructions" by Charles Fort.
Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.

June

Charles Fort's short story"Mrs Bonticue and Another Landlord" is published in June's edition of Tom Watson's Magazine.
June 6: Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
June 7: The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
June 9-10: Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden end with 50 policemen injured.
June 25: Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White.
June 30: The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

July

July 6: The Second Geneva Convention meets.
July 12: Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army July 21, ending the Dreyfus Affair that exposed anti-Semitism in French society.

August

August 16: A "terrible darkness" occurs followed by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile the quake leaves approximately 20,000 dead. (Books766)
August 22: The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
August 23: Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban Republic, Pres. Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.

September

September 11: Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
September 18: A typhoon with a tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
September 22: Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the black-owned business district severely damaged.
September 24: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
September 26: The first concert of the Telharmonium, the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
September 30: The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.

October

Smith's Magazine publishes Fort's short story "And Now the Old Scow May Slant As It Pleases".
October 1: The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
October 6: The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
October 9: At Baintree, Essex, England; a piece of smelted iron is reported to have fallen from the sky. (Books286)
October 11: The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan, by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
October 16: Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
October 23: An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).

November

November 9: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).

December

December 2: The HMS Dreadnought (the first all-big-gun warship) is commissioned.
December 8: The Petrified Forest, Arizona is designated a National Monument.
December 14: The first German submarine, U-1, enters the German Imperial Navy.
December 24: Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
December 26: The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released.
December 30: The All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represents the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.

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