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| 1st Prime Minister Witte |  |
| 30th Oct Moscow Appointed Prime Minister of Russia, Russia's 1st Prime Minister |
| Abdication Oscar II |  |
| Oct Stockholm Abdicates from the Norwegian throne after Norway declares independence from Sweden |
| Admiral Seymour, Edward Hobart |  |
| London Appointed Admiral of the Fleet |
| Arrest Fullon, Ivor | |
| 8th Jan St Petersburg Sends out orders to arrest Gapon but Gapon goes into hiding |
| Arrest Gorky, Maxim | |
| 10th Jan Arrested for expressing sympathy with the St Petersburg marchers |
| Arrest Kerensky, Alexander Fedorovich | |
| Arrested & expelled from the Socialist Revolutionary Party |
| Assassination Kaliev, Ivan | |
| 17th Feb Assassinates Grand Duke Sergei |
| Assassination Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich | |
| Organizes the assassination of Grand Duke Sergey Alexanderovich |
| Assassination Serge | |
| 17th Feb Moscow The Tsar's uncle is assassinated |
| Battle of Tsushima Str Togo, Heihachiro |  |
| 27th May Tsushimar Lays a trap for the Russian Fleet & scores a spectacular success which ends the War |
| 28th May Tsushimar 12 remaining ships of the Russian Fleet are surrounded by submarines & surrender |
| 28th May Tsushimar All but 12 minor ships of the Russian fleet are sunk, captured or driven aground |
| 28th May Tsushimar Sinks 7 Russian battleships without loss |
| Battle of Tsushima Str Rozhdestvenski, Zinovi | |
| 27th May Tsushimar Orders the Russian Fleet to Vladivostock but it is ambushed & defeated |
| Battle of Tsushima Str Rozhdestvenski, Zinovy | |
| 27th May Tsushimar Leads the Russians in the Suvarov but the Russians are defeated |
| 27th May Tsushimar Within a few days the Russian Fleet is destroyed |
| Birth Sartre, Jean-Paul |  |
| 21st June Birth of Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Birth Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert |  |
| 19th Mar Mannheim Birth of Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer |
| Birth Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali |  |
| Birth of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
| Birth Gomulka, Wladyslaw |  |
| Feb Krosno Birth of Wladyslaw Gomulka |
| Birth Hughes, Howard |  |
| 24th Dec Houston Birth of Howard Hughes |
| Bloody Sunday Nicholas II | |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace Troops kill 100 workers & wound 300 |
| Captain Ataturk |  |
| 5th Feb Damascus Appointed Captain in the 5th Army, Damascus |
| Chairman Lugansk Soviet Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Lugansk Appointed Chairman of the Lugansk Soviet, 1st term |
| Chairman Petrograd Soviet Nosar, George | |
| Oct Appointed Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet |
| Chancellor Asquith, Henry Herbert | |
| Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Chief of Pioneer Corps Beseler, Hans von | |
| Appointed Chief of the Pioneer Corps |
| Closure Schools Nicholas II | |
| 18th Mar All secondary schools & universities are closed for the remainder of the year |
| Commission Native Affairs Milner, Alfred | |
| Milner's Native Affairs Commission recommends black & white segregation |
| Composition Debussy, Achille-Claude | |
| Composes, "La Mer" |
| Composes, "Suite Bergameasue", includes "Claire de Lune" |
| Composition Lehar, Franz |  |
| Composes, "The Merry Widow" or "Die Lustige Witwe" |
| Congress of SDP Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 25th April London Held 25 April-10 May |
| 25th April London onvened by Lenin who believes that revolution is imminent |
| 25th April The Congress is only attended by the Bolsheviks |
| Constitution Nicholas II | |
| 18th Feb Asks for "suggestions" "concerning improvement of the state & the nation's well-being" |
| 19th Aug Moscow Signs a manifesto summoning the Imperial Duma |
| 19th Aug Moscow The Duma has advisory powers but is without legislative authority |
| 17th Oct Signs the "October Manifesto", establishing the State Duma as the elected legislature |
| 17th Oct Under the October Manifesto laws must be approved by the State Duma |
| 30th Oct St Petersburg Issues a manifesto granting a suffrage law for elections to the Duma |
| 30th Oct St Petersburg Issues a manifesto granting freedom of speech, conscience & Assembly |
| 30th Oct St Petersburg Issues a manifesto granting the right of Labour to organize |
| Constitution Trotsky, Leon | |
| "We are given a Constitution but absolutism remains" |
| Constitution Witte | |
| 17th Oct Under the October Manifesto laws must be approved by the State Duma |
| 22nd Oct Moscow Writes to the Tsar warning Russia is on the verge of revolution |
| 30th Oct Moscow Appointed Prime Minister of Russia, Russia's 1st Prime Minister |
| Constitution Smuts, Jan Christian |  |
| Negotiates a Constitution with Campbell-Bannerman |
| Cortes Alcala Zamora Alcala Zamora, Niceto |  |
| Madrid Appointed Member of the Cortes |
| Coup d'Etat Bazarov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich | |
| St Petersburg Supports the Bolsheviks |
| Coup d'Etat Martov, Yuly Osipovich | |
| Agrees with Plekhav that the RSDP should not sieze power as the revolution is bourgois |
| Crisis Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin | |
| Bulow alienates France over his handling of the Moroccan crisis |
| Death Ibsen, Henrik |  |
| 23rd May Death of Henrik Ibsen |
| Death Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich | |
| Organizes the assassination of Grand Duke Sergey Alexanderovich |
| Death Serge | |
| 17th Feb Moscow The Tsar's uncle is assassinated |
| Demonstrations Pankhurst, Christabel | |
| Manchester Disrupts Edward Grey's meeting in Manchester |
| Demonstrations Nicholas II | |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace Sparks off the 1905 revolution |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace The Union of Liberation organizes a procession to the Winter Palace |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace The Union of Liberation presents a petition to the Tsar |
| 22nd Jan Winter Palace Troops kill 100 workers & wound 300 |
| Demonstrations Sviatopolk-Mirskii | |
| 18th Jan St Petersburg Allows the demonstration but forbids demonstrators to go near the Winter Palace |
| Demonstrations Witte | |
| St Petersburg Called up by the Tsar to solve the industrial unrest following Bloody Sunday |
| Deputy Party Leader Lloyd George, David | |
| Serves under Campbell-Bannerman |
| Diplomacy Hayashi | |
| Tokyo Responsible for the Anglo-Japanese alliance |
| Diplomacy Katsura | |
| Japan completes the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 2nd |
| Director Naval Ordnance Rushworth Rushworth, John Rushworth | |
| London Appointed Director of the Naval Ordnance |
| Discovery of Relativity Einstein, Albert | |
| First proposes the Theory of Relativity in 3 seminal physics papers |
| Dismissal Sviatopolk-Mirskii | |
| 18th Jan Moscow Dismissed as Minister of the Interior after demonstrations in St Petersburg |
| Drama Shaw, George Bernard |  |
| Dramatization of, "Major Barbara" |
| Dramatization of, "Man & Superman" |
| Duma Lvov Lvov | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Duma |
| Editor Martov, Yuly Osipovich | |
| Appointed co-editor of Golos, an anti-war journal published in Paris |
| Education Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal | |
| 11th May Istanbul Graduates from the Military Academy Staff College with the rank of Captain |
| Election Balfour, Arthur James | |
| Defeated after a split by tariff reform proposals of Joseph Chamberlain |
| The Conservatices win just 156 seats at the general election |
| 8th Jan Manchester Balfour loses his seat in Manchester East |
| Election Campbell-Bannerman, Henry | |
| Dec Avoids a split in the party by offering Asquith the Chancellorship |
| 16th Dec Announces a general election |
| 16th Dec Polling will commence from 12 January & finish 8 February |
| Election Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 9th Dec Offerred the post of Financial Secretary at the Treasury, prefers a smaller department |
| Exile of Radek Radek, Karl Bernhardovich | |
| Fights in exile in Poland |
| Exile of Savinkov Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich | |
| Arrested & condemned to death but escapes & flees to Switzerland |
| Governor Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| Saratov Appointed Governor of Saratov |
| Governor Trepov, Vladimir Federovich | |
| 18th Jan St Petersburg Appointed Governor General of St Petersburg |
| IGS Haldane, Robert Anthony | |
| Founds the Imperial General Staff |
| Independence Campbell-Bannerman, Henry | |
| London Agrees to requests from Smuts for self-government in the Trans vaal & Free State |
| Orange Free Agrees to requests from Smuts for self-government in the Trans vaal & Free State |
| Transvaal Agrees to requests from Smuts for self-government in the Trans vaal & Free State |
| Transvaal The Traansval is awarded self-government |
| Independence Haakon VII | |
| Aug In a referndum 80% of Norwegians support the dissolution of the union with Sweden |
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