1905


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| image_style = border:none;b | perrow = 3/3 | image1 = The Russian Revolution, 1905 Q81555.jpg | image2 = Guglielmo II a Tangeri (1905).jpg | image3 = Battle of Tsushima, 1905 by Tōjō Shōtarō.jpg | image4 = Wilhelm Kuhnert Schlacht bei Mahenge 2.jpg | image5 = Покушение Сергея Александровича.jpg | image6 = Rene flagget heises Akershus DEX W 00026.jpg | total_width = 350 | footer = From top to bottom, left to right: the Russian Revolution of 1905 erupts after Bloody Sunday, sparking strikes, uprisings, and the creation of the Duma; the First Moroccan Crisis begins with Kaiser Wilhelm II’s visit to Tangier, straining Franco-German relations; the Battle of Tsushima ends in a decisive Japanese victory, reshaping power in East Asia; the Maji Maji Rebellion challenges German colonial rule in East Africa but is brutally suppressed; Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia is assassinated in Moscow; and the Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden peacefully grants Norway independence.

As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland. Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers in Annalen der Physik (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics.

Events

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January

Main article: January 1905

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S01260,_St._Petersburg,_Militär_vor_Winterpalast.jpg" caption="Bloody Sunday]] massacre of Russian demonstrators at the [[Winter Palace]] in [[Saint Petersburg"] ::

February

Main article: February 1905

March

Main article: March 1905

April

Main article: April 1905

May

Main article: May 1905

June

Main article: June 1905

July

Main article: July 1905

August

Main article: August 1905

  • August 8 – Fourteen employees of a department store in Albany, New York are killed when the building collapses suddenly.
  • August 9 – The peace conference to end the Russo-Japanese War between Russia and Japan begins at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • August 11 – The Russian Council appointed by Tsar Nicholas II meets at Peterhof and approves a plan for a national Duma, the first representative assembly in the Empire.
  • August 12 – The first running takes place of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in England, the world's oldest motorsport event to be staged continuously on its original course.
  • August 13 – At a referendum in Norway, voters opt almost unanimously for dissolution of the union with Sweden.
  • August 20 – Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of Tongmenghui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchu dynasty.
  • August 22 – The sinking of the Japanese ferry Kinjo Maru kills 160 people after the British ship HMS Baralong collides with it in the Sea of Japan.
  • August 26 – Near Point Barrow, Alaska, the crew of the Norwegian ship Gjoa, led by Roald Amundsen, make the breakthrough of finding the long-sought "Northwest Passage" from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
  • August 30 – A solar eclipse takes place, with greatest visibility in North Africa.

September

Main article: September 1905

October

Main article: October 1905

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November

Main article: November 1905

December

Main article: December 1905

Date unknown

Births

January – March

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April – June

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Raúl_Leoni_1965.jpg" caption="[[Raúl Leoni"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Joseph_Cotten_1957.JPG" caption="[[Joseph Cotten"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Henry_Fonda_in_Warlock.jpg" caption="[[Henry Fonda"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Sartre_1967_crop.jpg" caption="[[Jean-Paul Sartre"] ::

July – September

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Dag_Hammarskjöld.jpg" caption="[[Dag Hammarskjöld"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Myrna_Loy.jpg" caption="[[Myrna Loy"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Carl_David_Anderson.jpg" caption="[[Carl David Anderson"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Agnes_de_Mille_3.jpg" caption="[[Agnes de Mille"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Garbo_in_Inspiration.jpg" caption="[[Greta Garbo"] ::

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October – December

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Houphouet-Boigny.jpg" caption="[[Félix Houphouët-Boigny"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Felix_Bloch,_Stanford_University.jpg" caption="[[Felix Bloch"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Howard_Hughes.jpg" caption="[[Howard Hughes"] ::

Deaths

January–February

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March–April

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May–June

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Scalabrini.JPG" caption="[[Giovanni Battista Scalabrini"] ::

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July–August

September–October

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November–December

Date unknown

Nobel Prizes

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1905