In France, a law separating church and state is passed.
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23 February 1905
Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
16 December 1905
In Rugby Union, The “Match of the Century” is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.
28 November 1905
Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
30 April 1905
Albert Einstein is awarded his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich. Einstein’s official 1921 portrait after receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics In 1900,…
26 September 1905
Albert Einstein publishes his paper on the special theory of relativity. In 1905, Albert Einstein, a 26-year-old patent clerk, wrote a paper that revolutionized science….
13 August 1905
Norway votes to end the union with Sweden. The dissolution of the union between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte,…
22 January 1905
Bloody Sunday takes place in Saint Petersburg, starting the 1905 revolution. That Sunday morning, 22th of January 1905 in St Petersburg, some 150,000 people gathered…
1 September 1905
Alberta and Saskatchewan became part of Canada. The two provinces; Alberta and Saskatchewan were originally part of Rupert’s land. On September 1st, 1905, the Saskatchewan…