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As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland. Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers in Annalen der Physik (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics.

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= January =

{{Main|January 1905}}

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  • January 1 – In a major defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Russian General Anatoly Stessel surrenders Port Arthur, located on mainland China, to the Japanese.{{cite book|author=Naval War College (U.S.)|title=Naval War College Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T24KZRKFMj0C&pg=RA1-PA52|year=1991|publisher=Naval War College|pages=52}} On January 3, Japan formally repossesses the port, and renames it Ryojun, holding it for the next 40 years. The area will revert in 1945 to China, and become the Lushunkou District.
  • January 4
  • Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino becomes Prime Minister of Romania for the second time, having previously served from 1899 to 1900, and remains in office for more than two years."Cantacuzino, Gheorghe Grigore", in Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Wojciech Roszkowski and Jan Kofman (Taylor & Francis, 2016) p. 1862
  • The city of Bend, Oregon, plotted out in 1900 by Alexander Drake, is incorporated as a town for local logging companies, and will have a population of 536 in 1910. By the year 2020, it will have almost 100,000 residents.Jon Abernathy, Bend Beer: A History of Brewing in Central Oregon (Arcadia Publishing, 2014)
  • January 5 – Baroness Emma Orczy's play The Scarlet Pimpernel, the forerunner of her novel, opens at the New Theatre in London, beginning a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals.{{cite book|author=Alvin H. Marill|title=More Theatre: M-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4cjAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-2717-2|page=1097}}
  • January 6 – In the United States:
  • The Lick Observatory announces the discovery on 3 December 1904 of a sixth moon of Jupiter, made by their astronomer Charles D. Perrine. Unlike the first five Jovian satellites discovered, the sixth will be referred to by number as "Jupiter VI" until 1975, when named Himalia.
  • The Senate confirms the nomination of William D. Crum, an African-American, to the office of collector of customs at Charleston, South Carolina after Crum's nomination by President Theodore Roosevelt.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YzUbvTmYVcYC The American Monthly Review of Reviews] (February 1905) pp. 154-156
  • January 11 – Under the supervision of five editors, work begins on the comprehensive Catholic Encyclopedia, subtitled "An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church" and published by the Robert Appleton Company, specifically set up in New York City for the purpose. The first volume will appear in 1907.
  • January 14 – Jens Christian Christensen takes office as the new Prime Minister of Denmark.
  • January 15 – A series of three {{convert|41|m|ft}} high tsunamis kill 61 people in Norway in the villages of Ytre Nesdal and Bødal after a rockslide sweeps down Mount Ramnefjell and crashes into Lake Lovatnet.[https://www.fjords.com/rock-avalanches-loen/ "Loen Accidents in 1905 and 1936"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030173622/https://www.fjords.com/rock-avalanches-loen/ |date=October 30, 2022 }}, by Christer Hoel, Fjords.com
  • January 17 – In France, Prime Minister Émile Combes and his cabinet announce their resignations after being implicated in the Affair of the Cards (L'Affaire des Fiches), a system set up by the War Ministry to purge the French Army officers corps of Jesuits.Piers Paul Read, The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two (Bloomsbury, 2012) p. 338
  • January 21 – The Dominican Republic signs an agreement with the United States to allow the U.S. to administer the collection of customs taxes for Santo Domingo for 50 years, with the U.S. to assume responsibility for payment of the Republic's debts to foreign nations from Dominican income. The agreement is done as an exercise of the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YzUbvTmYVcYC The American Monthly Review of Reviews] (March 1905) pp. 283-286
  • January 22 (January 9 O.S.) – The Bloody Sunday massacre of peaceful Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg takes place, leading to an unsuccessful uprising.
  • January 24 – Maurice Rouvier forms a government as the new Prime Minister of France.
  • January 25 – Tsar Nicholas II appoints General Dmitri Trepov to be the Governor-General of Saint Petersburg, with absolute power to issue regulations to keep order.
  • January 26 – (January 13 O.S. in Russia)
  • Russian Revolution of 1905: The Imperial Russian Army opens fire on demonstrators in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, killing 73 people and injuring 200.
  • Elections are held in Hungary for the 413 seats in the Országgyűlés, the Kingdom's parliament within Austria-Hungary. Voters overwhelmingly reject the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister István Tisza, that has ruled Hungary since 1875, and the Liberals lose 118 of their 277 seats, but Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary (in his capacity as King Ferenc József) ignores the results and keeps Tisza in power.
  • January 27 – The Nelson Act is passed into law in the United States, providing for racial segregation of schools in the Alaska Territory.David S. Case and David A. Voluck, eds. Alaska Natives and American Laws (University of Alaska Press, 2012) p. 203
  • January 29 – Rioting breaks out in Warsaw, at this time under Russian Imperial rule with a Russian Governor-General.
  • January 30 – The U.S. Supreme Court renders its unanimous decision in the landmark case of Swift & Co. v. United States, allowing the federal government to regulate monopolies.
  • January 31 – "The greatest ball of the Gilded Age""Panic of 1907", in The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia, by Quentin R. Skrabec (Greenwood Publishing, 2012) p. 134. is held by James Hazen Hyde, the 28-year-old heir to the fortune of the founder of the Equitable Life Assurance Association" at New York City's Sherry Hotel, spending $200,000 for a "Louis XV costume ball" for invited guests.Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer, Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910 (W. W. Norton, 2013) pp. 195-197

= February =

{{Main|February 1905}}

= March =

{{Main|March 1905}}

  • March 2 – Russia's Committee of Ministers votes to grant religious freedom to the subjects of the Russian Empire.
  • March 3 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia announces his decision to create an elected assembly, the Duma, to represent the people of the Russian Empire in an advisory capacity, although the real power to make laws will remain with the Tsar and the cabinet of ministers.
  • March 10 – Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese capture of Mukden (modern-day Shenyang) completes the rout of Russian armies in Manchuria. The Russian Army commander, General Aleksey Kuropatkin, telegraphs the Tsar that his armies will be retreating to avoid further danger.
  • March 13 – Mata Hari introduces her exotic dance act in the Musée Guimet, Paris.Denise Noe [http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hari/5.html Mata Hari is Born] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210044610/http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hari/5.html|date=10 February 2015}}. Crimelibrary.com
  • March 14 – 23 of the 26 crew of the British barque Kyber die when the ship is wrecked off England's Land's End.{{cite web|url=https://www.submerged.co.uk/the-wreck-of-the-kyber|title=The Wreck of the Kyber|website=Submerged.co.uk|access-date=November 13, 2022|archive-date=November 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113165810/https://www.submerged.co.uk/the-wreck-of-the-kyber/|url-status=live}}
  • March 18 – Albert Einstein submits his paper "On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the production and transformation of light", in which he explains the photoelectric effect using the notion of light quanta, for publication.
  • March 20
  • The Grover Shoe Factory disaster kills 58 employees in Brockton, Massachusetts, when a boiler explodes and the factory building collapses.
  • The title Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is officially recognised by King Edward VII by a royal warrant.{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com.elib.tcd.ie/view/article/32975?docPos=1|title=Edward VII|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press}} {{ODNBsub}}
  • March 22 – Russia's Committee of Ministers votes to abolish the compulsory use of the Russian language in schools in "Congress Poland" (Tsarstvo Polskoye).
  • March 23 – The Theriso revolt begins in Crete as about 1,500 people led by Eleftherios Venizelos demand unification with Greece.
  • March 24 – Toastmasters International is founded by Ralph C. Smedley in Bloomington, Illinois.[https://www.toastmasters.org/about/history "History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113165809/https://www.toastmasters.org/about/history |date=November 13, 2022 }}, Toastmasters International.
  • March 29 – Jimmy Walsh knocks out Monte Attell, in a controversial six-round bout in Philadelphia, to win recognition of the World Bantamweight Championship by the National Boxing Association, despite being disqualified by the referee.

= April =

{{Main|April 1905}}

  • April 1 – The British Imperial Penny Post is extended to include Australia.{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Blake|title=The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985|location=Caterham|publisher=Marden|page=20}}The American Monthly Review of Reviews (May 1905) pp. 537-539
  • April 2 – The Simplon Tunnel through the Alps is opened to railway traffic.
  • April 3 – A coal mine explosion at Zeigler, Illinois, kills 50 miners.
  • April 4 – In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, kills 20,000 and destroys most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
  • April 5 – The body of John Paul Jones, "Father of the American Navy", is located in Paris almost 113 years after his death.
  • April 6 – A violent strike by the Teamsters' Union begins in Chicago.Robert Fitch, Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise (Perseus Books, 2006)
  • April 8 – Hundreds of people are killed in Spain in the collapse of a dam holding back a reservoir near Madrid.
  • April 17 – Russia's Tsar Nicholas II issues a decree granting religious freedom to his subjects.[https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=ree "Religious Freedom Since 1905— Any Progress in Russia?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928193225/https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=ree |date=September 28, 2022 }} by Irina Budkina, in Journal of Religion in Eastern Europe (May 2006) p. 24
  • April 20 – The largest ocean liner in the world at this time, the German SS Amerika is launched.James E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron, "Appendix A. Early Ships Named USS America", in At the Helm of USS America: The Aircraft Carrier and Its 23 Commanders, 1965-1996 p. 229
  • April 23 – German General Lothar von Trotha commander of troops in Germany's colony of Südwestafrika (modern-day Namibia), orders the extermination of the Nama people within the colony's borders, ultimately killing 10,000."Hendrik Witbooi and Samuel Maharero", by Werner Hillebrecht, in Re-Viewing Resistance in Namibian History, ed. by Jeremy Silvester (University of Namibia Press, 2015) p. 51 Von Trotha's proclamation Aan de oorlogvorende Namastamme, proclaims that "The Nama who chooses not to surrender and lets himself be seen in German territory will be shot, until all are exterminated."[http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_namibia1.html "Talking About Genocide: Namibia 1904"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726173121/http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_namibia1.html |date=July 26, 2008 }}, Peace Pledge Union
  • April 24 – China's Empress Regent Cixi (Tzu Hsi) abolishes further use in executions of the nation's three most cruel torture execution methods, lingchi ("death by a thousand cuts"), gibbeting (similar to crucifixion, hanging until dying of exposure, thirst or starvation), and desecration of a dying person."Traditionalising Chinese Law", by Li Chen, in Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation, ed. by Yun Zhao and Michael Ng (Cambridge University Press, 2018) p. 198
  • April 28 – A tornado strikes Laredo, Texas and kills 100.The American Monthly Review of Reviews (June 1905) pp. 665–668
  • April 30 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral dissertation, A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions (submitted July 30 to the University of Zurich).

= May =

{{Main|May 1905}}

  • May 4 –The first world championship of professional wrestling takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  • May 9 – Upon the death of U.S. social activist Ann Reeves Jarvis In West Virginia, her daughter Anna Jarvis resolves to campaign across the United States for a proposed "Mother's Day".
  • May 10 – The 1905 Snyder tornado destroys the town of Snyder, Oklahoma, killing 97.[https://www.weather.gov/oun/events-19050510 "The Snyder, Oklahoma Tornado of 10 May 1905"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221116183939/https://www.weather.gov/oun/events-19050510 |date=November 16, 2022 }}, National Weather Service
  • May 11 – Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen" ("On the Motion of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid, as Required by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat"), based on his doctoral research, delineating a stochastic model of Brownian motion.
  • May 12 – The Natural History Museum, London, unveils its popular exhibit of "Dippy", an exact replica of the skeleton of the Diplodocus carnegii dinosaur.
  • May 15 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when {{convert|110|acre}} of land adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks are auctioned to form what becomes Downtown Las Vegas.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050622085441/http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/history/default.htm "The History of Las Vegas"], Las Vegas official website, lasvegasnevada.gov
  • May 22 – Abdul Hamid II, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire establishes the Ullah millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day.{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/34296221|title=The ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: the identity of a minority that behaves like a majority|first=Thede|last=Kahl|author-link=Thede Kahl|journal=Ethnologia Balkanica|volume=6|pages=145–169|year=2002|access-date=November 12, 2021|archive-date=October 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031130621/https://www.academia.edu/34296221|url-status=live}} The decision is publicly announced the next day, which is more commonly celebrated.{{cite news|url=http://www.armanami.org/blog/nikola-minov-why-dont-all-aromanians-celebrate-may-23-as-their-national-day/|title=Nikola Minov: Why don't all Aromanians celebrate May 23 as their national day?|publisher=Trâ Armânami Association of French Aromanians|date=24 May 2020|access-date=27 November 2020|archive-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124085036/http://www.armanami.org/blog/nikola-minov-why-dont-all-aromanians-celebrate-may-23-as-their-national-day/|url-status=live}}
  • May 28 – At the end of two days in fighting in the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian Imperial Navy has suffered the deaths of more than 14,000 of the 18,000 sailors and officers it had brought to the battle, and all but four of its Pacific ships. The Japanese loss is three torpedo boats and 800 men.[https://books.google.com/books?id=jUsfTWbdik4C&q=%22monthly+Review+of+Reviews%22+1905 The American Monthly Review of Reviews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427224815/https://books.google.com/books?id=jUsfTWbdik4C&q=%22monthly+Review+of+Reviews%22+1905 |date=April 27, 2023 }} (July 1905) pp. 26-29
  • May 29 – Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Elmer Stricklett introduces the "spitball" to major league baseball.Eldon L. Ham, Larceny and Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy of Major League Baseball (Chicago Review Press, 2005) pp.16-17
  • May 30 – Japan's Prime Minister Katsura Tarō asks U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to moderate peace discussions to end the Russo-Japanese War.Ian Nish, Japanese Foreign Policy 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

= June =

{{Main|June 1905}}

= July =

{{Main|July 1905}}

  • July 1 – Hundreds of people die in the flooding of guanajunto in Mexico.
  • July 3 – France's Chamber of Deputies passes a bill for separation of church and state, 341 to 233.
  • July 5 – Alfred Deakin takes office as the new Prime Minister of Australia.
  • July 10 – A Japanese expedition takes control of the Russian island of Sakhalin after a short battle.
  • July 11 – National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda valley of Wales: an underground explosion kills 120, with just one survivor.{{cite web|url=http://webapps.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk/heritagetrail/rhondda/wattstown/wattstown.htm|work=Rhondda Cynon Taff Library Services Heritage Trail|title=Wattstown|access-date=2010-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110043854/http://webapps.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk/heritagetrail/rhondda/wattstown/wattstown.htm|archive-date=2011-01-10|url-status=dead}}
  • July 12 –The University of Sheffield is officially opened by King Edward VII in England.Melvyn Jones, The Making of Sheffield (Wharncliffe Books, 2004) p. 158.
  • July 14
  • The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons.
  • In New Zealand, the first known suicide attack by a civilian (as opposed to sacrifices made in military combat) takes place in Murchison."NZ suicide bombing a world first", by Gerard Hindmarsh, The Press (Christchurch), January 16, 2016. p. A13
  • July 15 – The popular fictional character Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, is introduced in France.
  • July 21 – Sixty members of the crew of the USS Bennington are killed in an explosion of the U.S. Navy gunboat in the harbor at San Diego.The American Monthly Review of Reviews (September 1905) pp. 283-286
  • July 22 – Florence Kelly deliversher landmark speech about child labor before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia.
  • July 24 – The 1905 Bolnai earthquake (8.4 magnitude) strikes Mongolia, the second-largest on record here.
  • July 27 – The Taft–Katsura agreement is reached in Tokyo.
  • July 28 – Frankie Neil becomes the new world bantamweight boxing champion by defeating title holder Harry Tenny in a 25-round bout at Colma, California.
  • July 30 – At Basel in Switzerland, the International Zionist Conference delegates vote to reject the British offer of land in Uganda for a Jewish homeland.

=August=

{{Main|August 1905}}

  • August 2 – The Ancient Order of Druids initiates neo-Druidic rituals at Stonehenge in England.
  • August 7 – King Oscar II of Sweden appoints Prince Gustaf to serve as his regent.
  • August 8 – Fourteen employees of a department store in Albany, New York are killed when the building collapses suddenly.
  • August 9 – The peace conference to end the Russo-Japanese War between Russia and Japan begins at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • August 11 – The Russian Council appointed by Tsar Nicholas II meets at Peterhoff and approves a plan for a national Duma, the first representative assembly in the Empire.
  • August 12 – The first running takes place of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in England, the world's oldest motorsport event to be staged continuously on its original course.
  • August 13 – At a referendum in Norway, voters opt almost unanimously for dissolution of the union with Sweden.
  • August 15 – Mexican-American prospector Pablo Valencia gets lost in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona with no water. Enduring almost eight days of dehydration, Valencia wanders until he is discovered on August 23 by anthropologist William J. McGee and McGee's Papago Indian assistant, Jose."Surveyors to Campers: 1854 to the Present", by Bill Broyles and Gayle Harrison Hartmann, in Last Water on the Devil's Highway: A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas, ed. by Bill Broyles, et al. (University of Arizona Press, 2014) p. 141.
  • August 20 – Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of Tongmenghui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchu dynasty.
  • August 21 – The Sequoyah Constitutional Convention takes place in Muskogee in the U.S. Indian Territory and approves a constitution for the proposed State of Sequoyah, seeking admission as the only Native American majority state in the U.S.[https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SE021 "Sequoyah Convention"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428213749/https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SE021 |date=April 28, 2019 }}, by Richard Mize, in Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture online, Oklahoma Historical Society President Roosevelt will reject the idea in favor of joining the Indian Territory with the white-ruled Oklahoma Territory to create the 46th U.S. state.
  • August 22 – The sinking of the Japanese ferry Kinjo Maru kills 160 people after the British ship HMS Baralong collides with it in the Sea of Japan.Ian Collard, Ellerman Lines Remembering a Great British Company (The History Press, 2014) p. 199.
  • August 23 – A. Roy Knabenshue introduces the dirigible to the skies of New York City, piloting the lighter-than-air vehicle within view of hundreds of thousands of spectators.The American Monthly Review of Reviews (October 1905) pp. 410-413
  • August 24 – Frederick D. White becomes the first Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in Canada, and will serve until his death in 1918.
  • August 26 – Near Point Barrow, Alaska, the crew of the Norwegian ship Gjoa, led by Roald Amundsen, make the breakthrough of finding the long-sought "Northwest Passage" from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.Marilyn Landis, Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme (Chicago Review Press, 2001) p.149
  • August 27 – Tsar Nicholas II issues a decree restoring to Russia's universities the autonomy that had been taken away from them in 1884.Sergei Pushkarev, Self-government and Freedom In Russia (Taylor & Francis, 2019)
  • August 30 – A solar eclipse takes place, with greatest visibility in North Africa.

= September =

{{Main|September 1905}}

= October =

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= November =

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= December =

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Births

= January – March =

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= April – June =

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= July – September =

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= October – December =

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Deaths

= January–February =

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= March–April =

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=May–June=

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= July–August =

=September–October=

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=November–December=

= Date unknown =

  • Abdul Wahid Bengali, Muslim theologian and teacher (b. 1850){{Cite book|title=Mashayekh-e-Chatgam|volume=1|last=Ahmadullah|first=Mufti|year=2016|publisher=Ahmad Publishers|location=Dhaka |pages=29–68|isbn=978-984-92106-4-1|edition=3}}
  • Mary Thomas, West Indian labor leader (b. 1848)

Nobel Prizes

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References

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Further reading

  • Gilbert, Martin (1997). A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933. pp 105–22.

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