1905 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1905?
- January 9, 1905 – According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
- January 26, 1905 – The world’s largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3106.75 carat, is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
- February 4, 1905 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 23, 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete’s union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
- April 4, 1905 – In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20,000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
- May 15, 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acre, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
- May 28, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- June 7, 1905 – Norway’s parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
- July 6, 1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
- August 10, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
- September 1, 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- September 27, 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
- October 5, 1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
- October 16, 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- November 12, 1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
- November 21, 1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal “Annalen der Physik”. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
- November 25, 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
- December 11, 1905 – A workers’ uprising occurs in Kiev and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
- December 15, 1905 – The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
- December 30, 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
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