1905

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1902 1903 1904 - 1905(MCMV) - 1906 1907 1908

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1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

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Events

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January-April

January 2 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Army surrenders at Port Arthur, China; an event which shocked the world.
January 22 - Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.
January 26 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
February 10 - Bomb kills grand duke Sergei in Moscow
February 18 - Tsar orders A. G. Bulygin, the new minister of internal affairs, to make a plan for representative assembly
February 23 - Foundation of Rotary International
February 24 - Workmen from the Italian side of the Simplon Tunnel under the Swiss Alps break through the Swiss side
March 1 - Australian Conservative leader Richard Butler takes office as Premier of South Australia
March 3 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
March 5 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in 3 days.
March 10 Japanese capture of Mukden (now Shenyang) completes rout of Russian armies in Manchuria.
March 10 - Cassie Chadwick sentenced for 14 years in Cleveland for fraud
March 17 - Albert Einstein publishes his paper "On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the production and transformation of light" in which he explains the photoelectric effect using the notion of light quanta
March 31 - During his visit in Morocco, German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier (or First Moroccan) Crisis.
April 2 - The Simplon Tunnel dedicated
April 4 - In India, an earthquake near Kangra, kills 20,000.
April - Albert Einstein works on the special theory of relativity as well as the theory of Brownian motion

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May-October

May 8 - In Russia, Union of Unions, an umbrella group for newly-formed Russian trade and professional organizations, is found with Paul Milyakov as its leader
May 11 - Albert Einstein submits his doctoral dissertation "On the Motion of Small Particles..." where he explains the Brownian motion
May 13 - Mata Hari debuts in Paris
May 15 - Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
May 27-28 - Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Tsushima - The Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroys Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski in this two day battle
June 7 - The Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, thus Norway achieves its indepence.
June 14-15 - Mutiny in the Russian ironclad Potemkin
June 15 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
June 30 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" where he discovers special relativity.
July 6 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
July 11 - July 14 - first meeting of the Niagara Movement
August 13 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
August 20 - Lord Curzon resigns as viceroy of India
September 1 - The Canadian province of Alberta is established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories.
September 4 - The Canadian province of Saskatchewan is established.
September 5 - Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed - In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia. In the agreement, Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin and port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan.
September 20 - Printer's strike in Moscow
October 3 - HMS Dreadnought is laid down, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race.
October 13 - St. Petersburg Soviet of worker's deputies formed
October 17 - Russian chief minister Sergei Witte announces October Manifesto, plan for representative assembly, increased voting rights and freedom of speech, religion and association
October 18 - Naval students demonstrate in St Petersburg
October 26 - Sweden agrees to the repeal of the union with Norway. King Oscar abdicates.
October 30 - Tsar Nicholas II is forced to grant Russia's first constitution, conceding a national assembly (Duma) with limited powers.
October 31 - Local peasants in Volokolamsk declare the Markovo Republic (Russian troops overrun it July 18, 1906)
70 Onion Johnnies die when the steamer Hilda sinks off France.

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November-December

November 9 - The Province of Alberta, Canada holds its 1st General Election.
November 18 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
November 21 - Moscow soviet formed
November 28 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin as a political party whose goal is the independence for all of Ireland.
December 6 - St Petersburg soviet calls for a general strike
December 8 - Armed uprising in Moscow is defeated
December 9 - In Novorossiisk in Siberia, local Socialist Soviet declares independence. 19 days later Russian artillery forces them to surrender
December 30 - Bomb kills Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho. Case leads to a trial against leaders of the Western Federation of Miners