1905

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1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar).

Contents 1 Overview 2 Events of 1905 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December 2.13 Undated 3 Births 3.1 January-February 3.2 March-April 3.3 May-June 3.4 July-August 3.5 September-October 3.6 November-December 3.7 Unknown dates 4 Deaths 4.1 January - June 4.2 July - December 5 Nobel Prizes

[edit] Overview

As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War, more than 100,000 would die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos lead to a revolution against the Tsar. Canada and the U.S. expanded west, with Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces, and founding of Las Vegas. The April earthquake in India, killing 20,000, foreshadowed the 1906 earthquakes. Year 1905 was also the annus mirabilis of Albert Einstein, publishing papers that lay the foundations for quantum physics, introduced the special theory of relativity, explained Brownian motion and proved the existence of atoms.

[edit] Events of 1905

[edit] January

• January 2 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Army surrenders at Port Arthur, China - an event that shocked the world.

• January 5 - The Scarlet Pimpernel: The play opens at the New Theatre in London and begins a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals

• January 22 (January 9 O.S.) - Bloody Sunday massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.

• January 26 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.

[edit] February

• February 12 - In Christchurch, New Zealand, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is opened.

• February 16 - At Haulbowline Base in Ireland, two explosions onboard the HM Submarine A5, due to petrol fumes after refueling, kill 6 of 11 crew.

• February 17 - At Fremantle, Western Australia, the R.M.S. Orizaba wrecks, but all 160 passengers/mail are removed.

• February 19 - In Manchuria, fighting starts at the Battle of Mukden, largest world battle of that era.

• February 23 - Rotary International is founded.

• February - In Austin, Texas and San Antonio, TX, it is the coldest February on record, with average monthly temperature of 42.3F and 43.9F degrees (coldest day was February 12, 1899 at -1F and 4F).

[edit] March

• March 1 - Australian Conservative leader Richard Butler takes office as Premier of South Australia.
• March 3 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
• March 4 - US. President Theodore Roosevelt begins full term.

• March 5 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in 3 days.
• March 10 - Japanese capture of Mukden (now Shenyang) completes rout of Russian armies in Manchuria.
• March 10 - Cassie Chadwick sentenced for 14 years in Cleveland for fraud.

• March 17 - Albert Einstein publishes his paper "On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the production and transformation of light" in which he explains the photoelectric effect using the notion of light quanta

• March 31 - German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier Crisis or First Moroccan Crisis.

[edit] April

• April 4 - In India, an earthquake near Kangra kills 20,000.
• April - Albert Einstein works on the special theory of relativity as well as the theory of Brownian motion
• April 24 - Death of the mighty Miniconjou TetonSioux warrior Touch the Clouds, at the age of 69.

[edit] May

• May 11 - Albert Einstein submits his doctoral dissertation "On the Motion of Small Particles..." where he explains the Brownian motion.
• May 13 - Mata Hari debuts in Paris
• May 15 - Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• May 27-28 - Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Tsushima - The Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroys Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski in this two day battle

[edit] June

• June 7 -Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, thus Norway achieves full indepence.
• June 9 - The Charlton_Athletic_F.C. was founded. Charlton are now in the top football league in England
• June 14 - Mutiny in the Russian ironclad Potemkin
• June 15 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
• June 30 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" where he discovers special relativity

[edit] July

• July 6 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• July 29 - Taft-Katsura Agreement

[edit] August

• August 13 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.

[edit] September

• September 1 - The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories.
• September 5 - Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed - In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia. In the agreement, Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin and port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan.

[edit] October

• October 3 - HMS Dreadnought is laid down, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race.

• October 16 - Russian Revolution of 1905: Russian army opens fire in a meeting on a street market in Estonia, killing 94 and injuring over 200.

• October 26 - Sweden agreed to the repeal of the union with Norway.

• October 30 - Tsar Nicholas II is forced to grant Russia's first constitution, conceding a national assembly (Duma) with limited powers.

• October - 70 Onion Johnnies die when the steamer Hilda sinks off France.

[edit] November

• November 9 - The Province of Alberta, Canada holds its 1st General Election.
• November 18 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
• November 28 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin as a political party whose goal was the independence for all of Ireland.

[edit] December

• December 30 - Bomb kills Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho. Case leads to a trial against leaders of the Western Federation of Miners

[edit] Undated

• Women given vote + Admitted to practice of law in Qld.

• Workers Compensation introduced in QLD.
• Einstein publishes four papers. In particular, he formulates the theory of special relativity and explains the photoelectric effect by quantization. 1905 is regarded as his "miracle year".
• The Butcharts begin working on their Japanese Garden addition to their Butchart Gardens.

• The title Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is officially recognized by King Edward VII.

• Pathé Frères colors black and white films by machine.

• Books Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are banned from the Brooklyn Public Library for setting "bad example."

• Druidic rituals begin in Stonehenge.

• Albert Einhorn introduces novocaine.
• The first U-boat is launched.

• The Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots is formed.

• The Fauve art form is formed with leaders such as Henri Matisse and others.

[edit] Births

1905 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1905 MCMV
Ab urbe condita	2658
Armenian calendar	1354 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԴ
Bahá'í calendar	61 – 62
Buddhist calendar	2449
Chinese calendar	4541/4601-11-26 (甲辰年十一月廿六日) — to — 4542/4602-12-6 (乙巳年十二月初六日)
Ethiopian calendar	1897 – 1898
Hebrew calendar	5665 – 5666
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1960 – 1961
- Shaka Samvat	1827 – 1828
- Kali Yuga	5006 – 5007
Holocene calendar	11905
Iranian calendar	1283 – 1284
Islamic calendar	1322 – 1323
Japanese calendar	Meiji 38 (明治38年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2565 (皇紀2565年)
- Jōmon Era	11905
Julian calendar	1950
Korean calendar	4238
Thai solar calendar	2448
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[edit] January-February

• January 2 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
• January 3 - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
• January 8 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
• January 12 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
• January 12 - Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d. 1974)
• January 18 - Joseph Bonanno, American gangster (d. 2002)
• January 21 - Christian Dior, French couturier (d. 1957)
• January 26 - Charles Lane, American actor
• January 26 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (d. 1987)
• January 29 - Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
• January 31 - John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970)

• February 1 - Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• February 2 - Ayn Rand, American author (d. 1982)
• February 7 - Paul Nizan, French author (d. 1940)
• February 14 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
• February 15 - Harold Arlen, American composer of popular music (d. 1986)
• February 23 - Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (d. 1991)
• February 27 - Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)

[edit] March-April

• March 3 - Marie Glory, French silent screen actress
• March 6 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
• March 15 - Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944)
• March 16 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
• March 18 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
• March 18 - Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
• March 18 - Benny Friedman, American football player (d. 1982)
• March 19 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
• March 23 - Lale Andersen, German singer (d. 1972)
• March 23 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
• March 27 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)

• April 21 - Edmund G. Brown, Govenor of California (d. 1996)

[edit] May-June

• May 3 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988)
• May 8 - Red Nichols, American jazz musician (d. 1965)
• May 15 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
• May 16 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
• May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (d. 1962)
• May 29 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
• June 12 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1975)
• June 23 - Mary Livingstone, American radio comedian & married to Jack Benny (d. 1983)

[edit] July-August

• July 4 - Irving Johnson, American sail training pioneer (d. 1991)
• July 5 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (d. 1935)
• July 12 - Edward Bernds, American director (d. 2000)
• July 12 - Prince John of the United Kingdom (d. 1919)
• July 15 - Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1988)
• July 22 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
• July 23 - Leopold Engleitner, Holocaust Survivor
• July 25 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born British writer (d. 1994)
• July 29 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1961)

• August 2 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
• August 3 - Franz König, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (d. 2004)
• August 5 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• August 8 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
• August 11 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
• August 16 - Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (d. 1980)
• August 20 - Jean Gebser, author, linguist and poet (d. 1973)
• August 21 - Friz Freleng, American animator (d. 1995)
• August 23 - Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
• August 29 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey legend. (d. 1979)
• August 31 - Dore Schary, American film writer, director, and producer (d. 1980)

[edit] September-October

• September 1 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d.2000)
• September 3 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• September 18 - Eddie Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
• September 18 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
• September 22 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
• September 22 - Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician
• September 24 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• September 26 - Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
• September 30 - Savitri Devi, Greek writer and National Socialist philosopher (d. 1982)
• September 30 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• September 30 - Michael Powell, British director (d. 1990)

• October 5 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
• October 23 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)

[edit] November-December

• November 4 - Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet
• November 7 - William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
• November 9 - Erika Mann, oldest daughter of Thomas Mann (d. 1969)
• November 15 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (d. 1980)
• November 17 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (d. 1935)
• November 26 - Bob Johnson, baseball player (d. 1982)

• December 11 - Gilbert Rowland, Mexican-born American actor (d. 1994)
• December 17 - Simo Häyhä, sniper (d. 2002)
• December 21 - Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
• December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
• December 24 - Howard Hughes, American film maker, industrialist, aircraft designer, and airline founder (d. 1976)
• December 27 - Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (d. 1999)
• December 30 - Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Sada Abe, Japanese actress (d. 1970)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - June

• January 14 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
• January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
• February 4 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
• March 6 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
• March 24 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
• May 9 - Anna Jarvis, model for Mother's Day
• June 3 - James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (b. 1832)
• June 22 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

[edit] July - December

• July 8 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer (b. 1834)
• July 11 - Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian philosopher and jurist (b. 1849)
• August 14 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
• September 14 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer (b. 1852)
• September 18 - George MacDonald, Scottish author and poet, Christian minister (b. 1824)
• October 13 - Henry Irving, English actor (b. 1838)
• October 29 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)

[edit] Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
• Chemistry - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
• Medicine - Robert Koch
• Literature - Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Peace - Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner