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1904
 
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The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert       
1904
 
    
Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl       
1904
 
    
An observatory with a 100-inch reflecting telescope is set up by George Ellery Hale on Mount Wilson in California       
1904
 
   
Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution      
1904
 
    
The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá       
1904
 
    
Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud publishes The Psychopathology of Everyday Life       
1904
 
    
Hughie Cannon writes the music and words for the song originally titled "He Done Me Wrong" in the US musical Frankie and Johnny       
1904
 
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British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa       
Potala Palace in Lhasa, photo 1999
Mary Evans Picture Library

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The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh        
1904
 
    
J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London