WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1905
Find out what all happened February to November 1905

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

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

Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway. (18. November 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)

Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club. (23. February 1905)

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

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

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

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

Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war. (5. September 1905)

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

The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes. (13. July 1905)

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma. (3. March 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)

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)

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)

Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly. (30. October 1905)

Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy. (28. May 1905)

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