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.
- 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 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acre, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
- May 27, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
- 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 15, 1905 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- June 27, 1905 – Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
- July 6, 1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
- September 5, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
- October 1, 1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
- 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 17, 1905 – The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
- October 26, 1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
- 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.
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