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 22, 1905 – Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- June 30, 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- September 1, 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- 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
- 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 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 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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