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| 1905 |
| | | Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London | |
|  | Jacob and the Angel Epstein, 1941
Tate Britain
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| 1905 |
| | | Troops fire on a demonstration in St Petersburg, in the event which becomes known as Bloody Sunday | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Industrial Workers of the World (with its members later known as Wobblies) is founded in Chicago as a radical union initiative | |
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| c. 1905 |
| | | The Bloomsbury Group gathers for informal evenings at the family home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephens (later Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Strikes and riots sweep across Russia in the wake of St Petersburg's Bloody Sunday | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect as a flow of discreet particles (quanta) of electromagnetic radiation | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Henry Wood sets 'Rule Britannia' in his Fantasia on British Sea Songs, providing a traditional favourite for the last night of the Proms | |
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| 1905 |
| | | More than 360,000 Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only 184 against | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War | |
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