WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1905
Find out what all happened April to December 1905

Norway becomes independent from Sweden. (26. October 1905)

The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder. (5. May 1905)

Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (10. August 1905)

Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. (15. May 1905)

The Partition of Bengal in India takes place. (16. October 1905)

In France, the law separating church and state is passed. (9. December 1905)

A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic. (11. December 1905)

František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905. (1. October 1905)

Norway's parliament dissolved its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. (7. June 1905)

Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland. (28. November 1905)

Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden. (15. June 1905)

Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. (27. May 1905)

The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. (17. April 1905)

Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. (30. December 1905)

Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway. (25. November 1905)

Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation. (1. September 1905)

Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity. (30. June 1905)

Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries. (23. September 1905)

The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (17. October 1905)

The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc². (27. September 1905)