Madama Butterfly Timeline - 1904 the year of the premiere





- Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa premieres in Brno

- Antonín Dvořák (b. 1841) dies

- George Balanchine and Salvador Dalí born

- Freud publishes THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY of EVERYDAY LIFE

- Work begins on the Panama Canal

- Ernest Rutherford postulates general theory of radioactivity

Rolls-Royce Circa 1904

- Rolls-Royce Limited and IG Farben Chemicals founded

- Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College

- Russo-Japanese War breaks out: Russian fleet is virtually destroyed at Port Arthur

- Theodore Roosevelt elected President

Marlene Dietrich

- Anton Chekhov (b. 1860) dies



- Graham Greene and Marlene Dietrich born

- J.M. Barrie writes PETER PAN

- Henry James writes THE GOLDEN BOWL