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'''1905''' was a
common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
{{Year A}}
January-April
*
January 2 -
Russo-Japanese War: The
Russian Army surrenders at
Lüshunkou Port Arthur,
China; an event which shocked the world.
*
January 22 - Massacre of
Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in
Saint Petersburg, Russia 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 23 - Foundation of
Rotary International
*
March 1 - Australian Conservative leader
Richard Butler (Australian politician) 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 German emperor
Wilhelm II of Germany William II asserts German equality with France in
Morocco, triggering the Tangier (or
First Moroccan Crisis First Moroccan) Crisis.
*
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
May-October
*
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-
May 28 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
Norway Norwegian Stortinget Parliament declares the union with
Sweden Norway in 1905 dissolved, thus Norway achieves its indepence.
*
June 14 ?
Battleship Potemkin uprising Mutiny in the Russian ironclad ''
Mutiny of Potemkin Potemkin''
*
June 15 -
Princess Margaret of Connaught marries
Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden 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.
*
August 13 -
Norway holds
referendum in favour of dissolving the union with
Sweden.
*
September 1 - The
Canada Canadian province of
Alberta is established from the southwestern part of the
Northwest Territories.
*
september 4 - The
Canada 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.
*
October 3 -
HMS Dreadnought (1906) HMS ''Dreadnought'' is laid down, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race.
*
October 26 -
Sweden agreed to the repeal of the union with
Norway.
*
October 30 - Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas II is forced to grant
Russia's first constitution, conceding a national assembly (
Duma) with limited powers.
* 70
Onion Johnny Onion Johnnies die when the steamer ''Hilda'' sinks off
France.
November-December
*
November 9 - The Province of
Alberta,
Canada holds its
Alberta general election, 1905 1st General Election.
*
November 18 - Prince Carl of
Denmark becomes King
Haakon VII of Norway.
*
November 28 - Irish nationalist
Arthur Griffith founds
Sinn Féin in
Dublin as a
political party whose goal was the independence for all of
Ireland.
*
December 30 - Bomb kills
Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of
Idaho. Case leads to a trial against leaders of the
Western Federation of Miners
Unknown dates
*
Albert Einstein Einstein publishes four papers. In particular, he formulates the theory of
special relativity and explains the
photoelectric effect by
quantum mechanics quantization. 1905 is regarded as his "miracle year".
* The Butcharts begin working on their Japanese Garden addition to their
Butchart Gardens.
* The title
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is officially recognized by
Edward VII of the United Kingdom King Edward VII.
*
Pathé Frères colors black and white films by machine.
*
Huckleberry Finn and
Tom Sawyer banned from
Brooklyn Public Library for "bad example"
*
Druidry Druidic rituals begin in
Stonehenge
*
Albert Einhorn introduces
novocaine
* The first
U-boat
* The
Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots is formed.
Births
January-April
*
January 2 -
Michael Tippett, English composer (d.
1998)
*
January 3 -
Anna May Wong, American actress (d.
1961)
*
January 12 -
Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d.
1974)
*
January 18 -
Joseph Bonanno, American gangster (d.
2002)
*
January 21 -
Christian Dior, French couturier (d.
1957)
*
January 26 -
Charles Lane, American actor
*January 26 -
Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (d.
1987)
*
January 29 -
Barnett Newman, American painter (d.
1970)
*
January 31 -
John O'Hara, American writer (d.
1970)
*
February 1 -
Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1989)
*
February 2 -
Ayn Rand, American author (d.
1982)
*
February 7 -
Paul Nizan, French author (d.
1940)
*
February 14 -
Thelma Ritter, American actress (d.
1969)
*
February 15 -
Harold Arlen, American composer of popular music (d.
1986)
*
February 23 -
Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (d.
1991)
*
February 27 -
Franchot Tone, American actor (d.
1968)
*
March 6 -
Bob Wills, American singer (d.
1975)
*
March 15 -
Berthold von Stauffenberg Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d.
1944)
*
March 16 -
Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d.
1977)
*
March 18 -
Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d.
1985)
*March 18 -
Robert Donat, English actor (d.
1958)
*March 18 -
Benny Friedman, American football player (d.
1982)
*
March 19 -
Albert Speer, Nazi official (d.
1981)
*
March 23 -
Lale Andersen, German singer (d.
1972)
*
March 23 -
Joan Crawford, American actress (d.
1977)
*
March 27 -
Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d.
1980)
*
April 21 -
Pat Brown Edmund G. Brown, Govenor of California (d.
1996)
May-August
*
May 3 -
Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d.
1994)
*
May 8 -
Red Nichols, American jazz musician (d.
1965)
*
May 15 -
Joseph Cotten, American actor (d.
1994)
*
May 16 -
Henry Fonda, American actor (d.
1982)
*
May 20 -
Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
*
June 12 -
Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d.
1975)
*
July 4 -
Irving Johnson, American sail training pioneer (d.
1991)
*
July 5 -
Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (d.
1935)
*
July 12 -
Edward Bernds, American director (d.
2000)
**
Prince John of the United Kingdom (d.
1919)
*
July 15 -
Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d.
1988)
*
July 22 -
Doc Cramer,
Major League Baseball player (d.
1990)
*
July 25 -
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born British writer (d.
1994)
*
July 29 -
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish
United Nations Secretary-General (d.
1961)
*
August 2 -
Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d.
1963)
*
August 3 -
Franz König, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (d.
2004)
*
August 8 -
André Jolivet, French composer (d.
1974)
*
August 11 -
Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d.
2002)
*
August 16 -
Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (d.
1980)
*
August 20 -
Jean Gebser, author, linguist and poet (d.
1973)
*
August 21 -
Friz Freleng, American animator (d.
1995)
*
August 23 -
Constant Lambert, British composer (d.
1951)
*
August 29 -
Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey legend. (d.
1979)
*
August 31 -
Dore Schary, American film writer, director, and producer (d.
1980)
September-December
*
September 1 -
Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d.
2000)
*
September 3 -
Carl David Anderson, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1991)
*
September 5 -
Rhea Latour, Canadian Legend (Today
100 years old)
*
September 18 -
Eddie Anderson, American actor (d.
1977)
*
September 18 -
Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d.
1990)
*
September 22 -
Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d.
1964)
*
September 24 -
Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American biochemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1993)
*
September 30 -
Savitri Devi, Greek writer and National Socialist philosopher (d.
1982)
*
September 30 -
Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1996)
*
September 30 -
Michael Latham Powell Michael Powell, British director (d.
1990)
*
October 5 -
Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d.
1998)
*
October 23 -
Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1983)
*
November 7 -
William Alwyn, English composer (d.
1985)
*
November 9 -
Erika Mann, oldest daughter of
Thomas Mann (d.
1969)
*
November 15 -
Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (d.
1980)
*
November 17 -
Astrid of the Belgians Queen Astrid of Belgium (d.
1935)
*
November 26 -
Bob Johnson (baseball) Bob Johnson, baseball player (d.
1982)
*
December 11 -
Gilbert Rowland, Mexican-born American actor (d.
1994)
*
December 24 -
Howard Robard Hughes Howard Hughes, American film maker, industrialist, aircraft designer, and airline founder (d.
1976)
*
December 27 -
Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (d.
1999)
*
December 30 -
Jule Styne, English-born composer (d.
1994)
Unknown dates
*
Sada Abe, Japanese actress (d.
1970)
Deaths
*
January 14 -
Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b.
1840)
*
January 19 -
Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b.
1817)
*
February 4 -
Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b.
1841)
*
March 6 -
John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b.
1818)
*
March 24 -
Jules Verne, French author (b.
1828)
*
May 9 - Mrs. Jarvis, model for Mother's Day
*
June 22 -
Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b.
1815)
*
July 8 -
Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer (b.
1834)
*
August 14 -
Simeon Solomon, British artist (b.
1840)
*
September 18 -
George MacDonald, Scottish author and poet, Christian minister (b.
1824)
*
October 13 -
Henry Irving, English actor (b.
1838)
*
October 29 -
Etienne Desmarteau Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b.
1873)
*
Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian philosopher and jurist (b.
1849)
Marriages
*
January 24 -
Gordon Kahn &
Barbara Brodie
*
January 26 -
John J. Pershing &
Helen Frances Warren
*
March 16 -
Guglielmo Marconi &
Beatrice O'Brien
*
March 17 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt &
Eleanor Roosevelt
*
April 4 -
Evelyn Nesbit &
Harry Kendall Thaw
*
April 16 -
Viola Allen &
Peter C. Duryea
*
May 2 -
Anne Sullivan &
John Macy
*
June 6 -
Prince Hohenzollern &
Cecilie Auguste Marie Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
*
August 15 -
Decima Moore &
Frederick Gordon Guggisberg
*
October 4 -
Grace Coolidge &
Calvin Coolidge
*
November 19 -
Charmian London &
Jack London
*
November 21 -
Zane Grey &
Lina Elise Roth
*
November 28 -
Gus Edwards &
Lillian Boulanger
*
December 24 -
Max Fleischer &
Essie Goldstein
Nobel Prize Nobel Prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Medicine -
Robert Koch
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Henryk Sienkiewicz
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner
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