Editing 1904 (section)

=== October ===
* October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of [[Bethune–Cookman University]], is opened in Florida by [[Mary McLeod Bethune]].
* [[October 1]] – [[Phi Delta Epsilon]], the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and 8 of his friends, at [[Cornell University Medical College]].
* [[October 4]] – [[Sweden|Swedish]] Association football club [[IFK Göteborg]] is founded, becoming the 39th [[Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna|IFK-association]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Om-IFK-Goteborg/Presentation/Historik/bla/|title=IFK – 1904–1908|website=www.ifkgoteborg.se|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401123900/http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Om-IFK-Goteborg/Presentation/Historik/bla/|archive-date=April 1, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-11-03|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[October 5]] – [[Alpha Kappa Psi]], a co-ed professional [[business]] fraternity, is founded on the campus of [[New York University]].
* [[October 9]] – German journalist [[Anna Rüling]], in a speech to the [[Scientific-Humanitarian Committee]] in Berlin, makes the [[List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year|first known]] public statement of the socio-legal problems faced by [[lesbian]]s.
* [[October 11]] – [[Loftus Road]] football stadium opens in London.
* [[October 13]] – [[Pavlos Melas]] is encircled at [[Melas, Kastoria|Statista]] and killed during the [[Macedonian Struggle]].
* [[October 15]] – [[Theta Tau]], a [[Professional fraternity|professional]] engineering fraternity, is founded at the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis]].
* [[October 18]] – In Germany:
** The [[Bode Museum|Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum]] opens in [[Berlin]] for the display of fine art.
** [[Gustav Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 5]] is premiered by the [[Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne]].
* [[October 19]] – [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines]] is founded as Manila Business School, through the superintendence of American C. A. O'Reilley.
* [[October 21]] – [[Russo-Japanese War]]: [[Dogger Bank incident]] – The Russian [[Baltic Fleet]] fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the [[North Sea]].
* [[October 27]] – The first underground line of the [[New York City Subway]] opens.
* [[October 28]] – [[Panama]] and [[Uruguay]] establish [[Panama–Uruguay relations|diplomatic relations]].
* Late October – The first members of what will become the [[Bloomsbury Group]] move to the [[Bloomsbury]] district of London; they will be joined about November 8 by the future novelist [[Virginia Woolf]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Nicolson |editor-first=Nigel |editor-link=Nigel Nicolson |title=The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf |volume=I: 1888–1912 (Virginia Stephen) |location=London |publisher=[[Hogarth Press]] |year=1975 |isbn=0701204036}}</ref>