1905

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From top to bottom, left to right: the Russian Revolution of 1905 erupts after Bloody Sunday, sparking strikes, uprisings, and the creation of the Duma; the First Moroccan Crisis begins with Kaiser Wilhelm II’s visit to Tangier, straining Franco-German relations; the Battle of Tsushima ends in a decisive Japanese victory, reshaping power in East Asia; the Maji Maji Rebellion challenges German colonial rule in East Africa but is brutally suppressed; Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia is assassinated in Moscow; and the Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden peacefully grants Norway independence.
1905 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1905
MCMV
Ab urbe condita 2658
Armenian calendar 1354
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԴ
Assyrian calendar 6655
Baháʼí calendar 61–62
Balinese saka calendar 1826–1827
Bengali calendar 1311–1312
Berber calendar 2855
British Regnal year 4  Edw. 7   5  Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar 2449
Burmese calendar 1267
Byzantine calendar 7413–7414
Chinese calendar 甲辰年 (Wood  Dragon)
4602 or 4395
     to 
乙巳年 (Wood  Snake)
4603 or 4396
Coptic calendar 1621–1622
Discordian calendar 3071
Ethiopian calendar 1897–1898
Hebrew calendar 5665–5666
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1961–1962
 - Shaka Samvat 1826–1827
 - Kali Yuga 5005–5006
Holocene calendar 11905
Igbo calendar 905–906
Iranian calendar 1283–1284
Islamic calendar 1322–1323
Japanese calendar Meiji 38
(明治38年)
Javanese calendar 1834–1835
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4238
Minguo calendar 7 before ROC
民前7年
Nanakshahi calendar 437
Thai solar calendar 2447–2448
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dragon)
2031 or 1650 or 878
     to 
ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Wood-Snake)
2032 or 1651 or 879

1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar  and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1905th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 905th year of the 2nd millennium, the 5th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1905, the Gregorian calendar was 13days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland. Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers in Annalen der Physik (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics.

Events

"Baby New Year", a cartoon by John T. McCutcheon depicting the new year 1905 chasing the old 1904 into the history books McCutcheonNY1905.jpg
"Baby New Year", a cartoon by John T. McCutcheon depicting the new year 1905 chasing the old 1904 into the history books
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1905: Einstein's "miracle year"

January

January 22 (9 O.S.): The Bloody Sunday massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S01260, St. Petersburg, Militar vor Winterpalast.jpg
January 22 (9 O.S.): The Bloody Sunday massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

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October 2: HMS Dreadnought

November

December

Date unknown

Births

January – March

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Tex Ritter
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Takeo Fukuda
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Christian Dior
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Takashi Shimura
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Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
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Albert Speer
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Serge Lifar

April – June

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George H. Hitchings
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Pat Brown
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Raúl Leoni
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Joseph Cotten
Henry Fonda Henry Fonda in Warlock.jpg
Henry Fonda
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Jean-Paul Sartre

July – September

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Dag Hammarskjöld
Myrna Loy Myrna Loy.jpg
Myrna Loy
Carl David Anderson Carl David Anderson.jpg
Carl David Anderson
Agnes de Mille Agnes de Mille 3.jpg
Agnes de Mille
Greta Garbo Garbo in Inspiration.jpg
Greta Garbo
Max Schmeling Max-schmeling.jpg
Max Schmeling

October – December

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Helen Wills
Felix Houphouet-Boigny Houphouet-Boigny.jpg
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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Felix Bloch
Howard Hughes Howard Hughes.jpg
Howard Hughes

Deaths

JanuaryFebruary

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Ernst Abbe
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Adolph von Menzel

MarchApril

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Jules Verne

MayJune

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Francisco Silvela
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Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
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Małgorzata Szewczyk

JulyAugust

SeptemberOctober

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Rene Goblet
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Isabelle Gatti de Gamond

NovemberDecember

Date unknown

Nobel Prizes

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