WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1906
Find out what all happened January to February 1906

Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos. (11. February 1906)

British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time. (1. January 1906)

Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels. (18. February 1906)

HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII. (10. February 1906)

SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. (22. January 1906)

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. (12. January 1906)

A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. (8. January 1906)