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1905

World

General

Population: 1.70 Billion*

Entertainment: Music includes Debussy, Belasco produces Girl of the Golden West later made into opera by Puccini, Franz Lehar composes The Merry Widow
First American opera in Europe Zenobia by LA Coerne
Sir Thomas Beecham makes debut as music conductor in London
Victor Herbert composes The Red Mill operetta in New York
Top songs include Daddy's Little Girl, In My Merry Oldsmobile, Mary's a Grand Old Name, My Gal Sal, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Art includes Monet (Water Lilies), Cezanne, Henri Rousseau, JS Sargent, W Holman Hunt, Henri Matisse and other artists nicknamed Fauves (wild beasts) exhibit works in France
Picasso arrives in Paris and begins "Pink Period" until 1906 - End of Picasso's "blue period"
Jacob Epstein the American sculptor settles in London
Film includes French Potemkin
Writers include Tristan Bernard, Strindberg, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde (posth), Richard Beer-Hoffmann, Hermann Hesse, Riike, EM Forster, Baroness Orczy (Scarlet Pimpernel), Wilhelm Dilthry, George Santayana, Bernard Shaw (play shut down after one performance for censor), Lenin, Les Gaubes christen by Louis Vauxcelles
Albert Schweitzer writes about J.S. Bach
Medicine: Nobel prize for medicine awarded to Robert Koch
Nature: Cullinan diamond becomes largest found to that date at 3000 carats
Politics: Roosevelt negotiates Treaty of Portsmouth (Ending Russian-Japanese war) and receives Nobel Prize
Anglo-Japanese alliance renewed for 10 years
Science: First investigation into photosynthesis
Einstein's special relativity and E=MC² published
Brownian theory of motion and photon theory of light too
Sigmund Freud writes regarding theory of sex
Merezhkovsky suggests chloroplasts originate from cyanobacteria – rediscovered in 1960s
Sports: World boxing champion James Jeffries retires undefeated
Technology: First neon signs appear
Rayon yarn manufactured commercially through viscose process
Deaths: Painter Adolf Menzel, Jules Verne, Architect Alfred Waterhouse, Sculptor Constantin Meunier, Actor Henry Irving, Conductor Theodore Thomas

Africa

German East Africa: (Tanzania) Maji-Maji rebellion leads to 75,000 deaths
Morocco: German colonial ambitions spark first Moroccan crisis with France
German Kaiser lands in Tangier Morocco promising trade to Algeria in response to French control
South Africa: Culliman diamond found in South Africa – see 1907 and 8
Transvaal: Louis Botha and Het Volk party demand responsible government in Transvaal and are dissatisfied with new constitution

Americas

Canada: Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan formed
Brazil: British Royal Zoological Society members see "Sea Serpent" off coast of Brazil – at least 6 feet long with undulating body and horse's head
Dominican Republic: Becomes US protectorate
Panama: Three quarters of American labor force in Panama Canal zone flee due to fever

Asia

General: Battle of Tsushima Strait has Japanese fleet destroying Russians - Japanese defeat Russians on land and sea – War ends by Treaty of Portsmouth
Bengal: Bengal partitioned into Bengal, E Bengal and Assam
Partitioning provokes riots
China: Sun Yat-Sen founds union of secret societies to expel Manchus from China
Death by Ling Chi (slow cutting) outlawed in China
Port Arthur China (Russian) falls to Japan
India: Muslim League founded
Plague
Quakes kill 20,000
Japan: Togo destroys Russian fleet and wins at battles of Mukden and Tsushima
Korea: Japan presses Korea to sign a treaty whereby Japan "protects" Korea
Mongolia: 8.4 Quake
New Guinea: British New Guinea becomes possession of Australia – renamed Papua

Europe

General: William II of Germany and Nicholas II sign treaty of Bjorko for mutual help in Europe
Belgium: End of scandal over Zaire
Crete: Greeks in Crete revolt against Turks
France: Political power of clergy broken
Socialists unite
Mata Hari in Paris
Germany: Kaiser William II visits Tangier and provokes crisis with France
U-Boats made
Great Britain: Britain provides insurance for several businesses
Motor Busses first used in London
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal) as Prime Minister
Sinn Fein movement begins in Ireland
London Auto Association founded
Austin Motor Company founded
Underground lines for Piccadilly and Bakerloo opened
Druidic rituals at Stonehenge begins
British Dreadnought ship revealed triggering arms race
Dorchester woman killed for murder Mary Channing killed in old Roman ampitheater
Greece: Malaria outbreak
Italy: Vesuvius erupts
Earthquake
Norway: Norway separates from Sweden
Prince Charles (Carl) of Denmark elected King Haakon VII of Norway
Russia: Red (Bloody) Sunday - Russian worker's in St. Petersburg demonstration turns into massacre
Minor Russian revolution and strike - crushed
End of Russo-Japanese War
Russian leaders make concessions to workers ("October Manifesto") - limited reforms
Tsar Nicholas II creates elected assembly
Russian troops lose 100,000 in five days amid retreats
Sweden: Sweden separates from Denmark grudgingly
Connaught/Prussian princess marries prince of Sweden

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