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| 1905 |
| | | English engineer Herbert Austin sets up a factory to manufacture cars at Longbridge, south of Birmingham | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1905 |
| | | German biologists Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discover the micro-organism Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The largest diamond yet known is found in a South African mine belonging to Thomas Cullinan | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously | |
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| 1905 |
| | | In his special theory of relativity Albert Einstein reconciles the apparent clash between relativity and electromagnetic theory | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté | |
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| 1905 |
| | | US photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen set up the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York | |
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| 1905 |
| | | French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale by which to measure the 'mental age' of children | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other Dresden students form the Expressionist group Die Brücke | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Pablo Picasso's palette becomes warmer as Blue evolves into Rose | |
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| 1905 |
| | | David Belasco's play Girl of the Golden West has its premiere in New York, where it is seen two years later by Giacomo Puccini | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation, completing the 'prairie provinces' | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Ulster Unionist Party is founded in Belfast to oppose Home Rule | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin becomes influenced by the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Edith Wharton publishes the novel that brings her fame and fortune, The House of Mirth | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Henri Matisse, in the south of France, paints The Open Window, Collioure, the first of his many works on this theme | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the 125-ton vessel Venoga, is launched on Lake Geneva | |
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| 1905 |
| | | A complaint about maggotty meat on the Russian battleship Potemkin leads to thousands of deaths after troops fire on a demonstration | |
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| 1905 |
| | | English physiologists William Bayliss and Ernest Starling coin the word 'hormone' for glandular secretions into the bloodstream | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Beatrix Potter buys Hill Top Farm, in Sawrey, where for nearly thirty years she breeds a local variety of sheep | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first German submarine, or U-boat, is constructed in a programme to catch up with Britain and France in this area | |
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| 1905 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul, a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising | |
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| 1905 |
| | | US philosopher George Santayana publishes the first of the five volumes of his Life of Reason | |
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| 1905 |
| | | President Thedore Roosevelt mediates a peace treaty in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, between Russia and Japan | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Thomas Dixon's popular novel The Clansman presents the Ku Klux Klan in heroic terms | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Aristide Maillol has his first major success with a large sculpture at the Salon d'Automne in Paris | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Treaty of Portsmouth gives Japan control of Port Arthur and much of the Liaotung Peninsula | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Britain's Automobile Association is founded, with patrol-men on bicycles to assist drivers | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Claude Debussy completes the three symphonic sketches forming La Mer | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Albert Einstein relates mass and energy in the equation e = mc2 | |
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