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| 1905 |
| | | Matisse, Derain and others, exhibiting in Paris their shockingly colourful new works, are dubbed fauves ("wild beasts") by a critic | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first soviet ("council") of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Dutch dancer Gertrud Zelle begins a career in Paris, using the stage name Mata Hari | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signs the October Manifesto, authorizing an elected duma or legislature | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Percival Lowell predicts the existence of an unknown planet, almost exactly where Pluto is discovered 25 years later | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Gustav Mahler's cycle of five songs, Kindertotenlieder, hs its first performance in Vienna | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The monk Grigory Rasputin exercises a powerful influence over the Russian empress Alexandra | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The designer Edward Gordon Craig publishes a theatrical manifesto, The Art of the Theatre | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Conservative prime minister Balfour resigns and Henry Campbell-Bannerman forms an interim Liberal government in Britain | |
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