List of 1905 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1905
Date | Event |
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January 22, 1905 | Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. |
January 26, 1905 | The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan, which weighs 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa. |
February 5, 1905 | In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties. |
February 20, 1905 | The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. |
February 23, 1905 | Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club. |
March 23, 1905 | Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt. |
March 25, 1905 | The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes. |
April 4, 1905 | In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala. |
April 17, 1905 | The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
April 30, 1905 | Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich. |
May 5, 1905 | The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder. |
May 15, 1905 | The city of Las Vegas founded in Nevada, United States. |
May 22, 1905 | The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II establishes the Ullah Millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day,[7] although most do so on May 23 instead, which is when this event was publicly announced. |
May 23, 1905 | The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II publicly announces the creation of the Ullah Millet for the Aromanians of the empire, which had been established one day earlier. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is usually celebrated on May 23,[3] although some do so on May 22 instead. |
May 27, 1905 | Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. |
May 28, 1905 | Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy. |
June 7, 1905 | Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. |
June 27, 1905 | During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. |
June 30, 1905 | Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. |
August 10, 1905 | Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. |
August 13, 1905 | Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden. |
August 20, 1905 | Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others establish the Tongmenghui, a Republican, anti-Qing revolutionary organisation, in Tokyo, Japan. |
September 5, 1905 | Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war. |
September 8, 1905 | The 7.2 Mw Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people. |
September 11, 1905 | The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13. |
September 23, 1905 | Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries. |
September 26, 1905 | Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity. |
October 5, 1905 | The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes. |
October 16, 1905 | The Partition of Bengal in India takes place. |
October 26, 1905 | King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. |
October 30, 1905 | Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, nominally granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar) |
November 1, 1905 | Lahti, the city of Finland, is granted city rights by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Grand Duke of Finland. |
November 12, 1905 | Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country. |
November 18, 1905 | Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway. |
November 21, 1905 | Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. |
November 25, 1905 | Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway. |
November 28, 1905 | Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland. |
December 9, 1905 | In France, a law separating church and state is passed. |
December 11, 1905 | A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic. |
December 15, 1905 | The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin. |
December 16, 1905 | In Rugby Union, The "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.[9] |
December 30, 1905 | Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. |