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| 1905 |
| | | English engineer Herbert Austin sets up a factory to manufacture cars at Longbridge, south of Birmingham | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1905 |
| | | German biologists Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discover the micro-organism Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The largest diamond yet known is found in a South African mine belonging to Thomas Cullinan | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously | |
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| 1905 |
| | | In his special theory of relativity Albert Einstein reconciles the apparent clash between relativity and electromagnetic theory | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté | |
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| 1905 |
| | | US photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen set up the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York | |
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| 1905 |
| | | French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale by which to measure the 'mental age' of children | |
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