Editing 1904 (section)

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1904}}
* [[March 3]] – Kaiser [[Wilhelm II of Germany]] becomes the first person to make a recording of a political document, using [[Thomas Edison]]'s [[Phonograph cylinder|cylinder]].
* [[March 4]] – [[Russo-Japanese War]]: [[Russian Empire|Russia]]n troops in Korea retreat toward [[Manchuria]], followed by 100,000 [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]ese troops.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040305.2.34.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Japanese Transports Disembark a Hundred Thousand Men in Korea. Immediate Advance by a Tremendous Array of Soldiery Said to Have Been Ordered. |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=95 |issue=96 |date=5 March 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-2 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120194018/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040305.2.34.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040306.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Russian Troops Retire to the Yalu; Squadrons May Meet in Sea Battle |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=95 |issue=97 |date=6 March 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-7 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120163928/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040306.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 6]] – [[Scottish National Antarctic Expedition]]: Led by [[William Speirs Bruce]], the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] region of [[Coats Land]] is discovered from the ''[[Scotia (barque)|Scotia]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Rudmose Brown | first1 = R. N. | author-link1 = Robert Rudmose-Brown | last2 = Pirie | first2 = J. H. | last3 = Mossman | first3 = R. C. | year = 2002 | title = The Voyage of the Scotia | publisher = Mercat Press | location = Edinburgh | isbn = 1-84183-044-5 | ref = {{sfnRef|Rudmose Brown}} |page=121}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – 20,000 demonstrators gather in [[Hyde Park, London]], to protest against the importation of [[Chinese South Africans|Chinese labourers to South Africa]]n gold mines.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040327.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Big Mass-Meeting is Held in London: Trades Unions Show Their Opposition to the Introduction of Chinese Labor in South Africa. |volume=95 |issue=118 |date=27 March 1904 |at=Page 21, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=8 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208084010/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040327.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 31]] – [[British expedition to Tibet]]: The Battle of Guru – British troops under Colonel [[Francis Younghusband]] defeat ill-equipped [[Tibet]]an troops.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Tibetans Attack British Column and are Repulsed with Loss of Hundreds. Natives Armed With Ancient Weapons Oppose Advance of Younghusband's Expedition and Display Fanatical Valor in Face of Slaughtering Rifle Fire |volume=XCV |issue=123 |date=1 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=8 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208102417/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&pg=PA421 |last=Jaques |first=Tony |title=Guru '''{{!}}''' 1904 '''{{!}}''' British Invasion of Tibet |dictionary=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century |volume=2: F-O |location=[[Westport, Connecticut]] and London |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |year=2007 |page=421 |isbn=978-0-313-33538-9 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8k0FEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT102 |last=Malhotra |first=Iqbal Chand |title=Red Fear: The China Threat |location=[[Vasant Kunj]] [[New Delhi]] |publisher=[[Bloomsbury India]] |year=2021 |pages=102–103 |isbn=9789-3898-6759-6 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>