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| 1905 |
| January
2nd |
 |
Russian
naval base at Port Arthur (now Lüshun) north-east China
surrendered to Japanese forces. The port had been under siege
since February 8th 1904. |
|
| January
22nd |
|
'Bloody
Sunday' massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Workers marched
onto Tsar Nicholas II at the Winter Palace. Russian troops opened
fire killing protesters. |
|
February
29th -
March 10th |
|
Japanese
forces took Mukden (now Shenyang), the capital of Manchuria,
China, from Russian forces. |
|
| March
3rd |
|
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agreed to create an elected assembly,
which was called the 'Duma'. |
|
| March
5th |
|
Russian troops began to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria, after
the Russians lost 100,000 troops in three days. |
|
| March
10th |
|
The Japanese captured of Mukden (now Shenyang) completed the
rout of Russian forces in Manchuria, China. |
|
| March
19th |
|
Albert Speer was born. Speer became a high ranking Nazi official
and Hitler's architect. After WWII he was imprisoned by the
Allies for 20 years for his involvement at the Nuremberg
Trials. |
|
| March
24th |
|
Famous French author Jules Verne died. |
|
| April. |
|
Albert Einstein started work on his 'special theory of relativity'
as well as the 'theory of Brownian motion'. |
|
| May
11th |
|
Albert Einstein submited his dissertation 'On the Motion of
Small Particles' , which explained the 'theory of Brownian motion'. |
|
| May
27th |
|
Russian
Baltic fleet was destroyed by the Japanese fleet under Admiral
Togo at Tsushima. |
|
| June
7th |
|
The Norwegian Parliament declared the union with Sweden dissolved,
Norway achieved independence. |
|
| June
14th - 15th |
|
Russian sailors mutinied on the battleship Potemkin. |
|
| June
30th |
|
Albert Einstein published the article "On the Electrodynamics
of Moving Bodies" where he discovers special relativity. |
|
| August
13th |
|
Norway held a referendum in favour of dissolving the union with
Sweden. |
|
| August
23rd |
|
Peace
Treaty signed by Russia and Japan. Russia evacuated Manchuria,
China, and recognised Japan's occupation. |
|
| September
5th |
|
Russo-Japanese War ended. Mediated by US President Theodore
Roosevelt, with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in New
Hampshire, signed by the victor Japan and the defeated Russia. |
|
| October
3rd |
|
HMS Dreadnought was built, a revolution in battleship design
which created a naval arms race amongst other nations. |
|
| October
26th |
|
Sweden agreed to the dissolvement of the union with Norway.
King Oscar II abdicated the Norwegian throne. |
|
| October
30th |
|
Tsar Nicholas II was forced to allow Russia's first constitution,
conceding limited powers to the national assembly, the Duma. |
|
| November
28th |
|
Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founded the political
party Sinn Féin in Dublin. Griffith's aim was the
independence of Ireland. |
|
|
| December
24th |
|
The infamous American Howard Hughes was born. Hughes became
a wealthy film maker, industrialist, aircraft designer and recluse. |
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