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
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