1905 Calendar
What Happened In Year 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 30, 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- July 6, 1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
- 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.
- August 10, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
- 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 16, 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 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.
- 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.
- December 11, 1905 – A workers’ uprising occurs in Kiev and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
- December 30, 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
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