Gazetteer
1905
  • The British Empire
  • Austin Motor Co founded
  • Buses start service in London
  • Muslim tribal violence in India
  • Plague in India kills over 1.1 million
  • French Empire
  • Tribal violence in French Morocco
  • Jules Gabriel Verne dies
  • Mata Hara (Margaretha Zelle) starts exotic dancing career, combining the dances of the native East Indies with
    that of striptease.
  • German Empire
  • Native rebellions in German Southwest and East Africa
  • German Navy develops the U-boat.
  • Einstein writes 5 papers of his theories while working in a patent office.  These include the theory of relativity, the
    theory of light quantum and the equation for energy.
  • Greece
  • Crete wins its independence
  • Japanese Empire
  • January: Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese
  • May: Russian Baltic fleet engages the Japanese fleet near Korea and is decimated
  • August: Treaty of Portsmouth negotiated by American President Roosevelt.  Japan gets Korea, Port Arthur and
    half of the Russian Sakhalin Island.  Manchuria given back to the Chinese by Russia
  • Norway
  • Norwegian Roald Amundsen sails the northwest passage
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Demonstrations and armed conflicts by provincial ethnic classes
  • Crete wins its independence
  • Russian Empire
  • Demonstrations, protests and armed conflicts by workers and provincial ethnic classes
  • Russian grand duke Sergei Alexandrovitch assassinated in Moscow
  • United States of America
  • Bethlehem Steel formed in Pennsylvania
  • First Nickelodeon opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, Louisiana kills more than 3,000