1905 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1905?
- January 2, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China
- 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.
- February 4, 1905 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
- March 23, 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete’s union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
- 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 of the United States Constitution.
- 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 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.
- June 30, 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- July 13, 1905 – The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes.
- September 5, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
- 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.
- October 26, 1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
- October 30, 1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
- November 12, 1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
- December 9, 1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
- 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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