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The Russian Revolution of 1905. Artistic impression of the mutiny by the crew of the battleship Potemkin against the ship's officers on 14 June.

Russian revolution

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through the Russian Empire.

Events

• January 1 – The Trans-Siberian Railway officially opens, after its completion on July 21, 1904.
• March 3 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
• March 4 – Second inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in for a full term as 26th President of the United States.
• March 13 – Mata Hari introduces her exotic dance act in Paris.
• March 23 – Theriso revolt: About 1,500 men, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, meet at the village of Theriso in Crete to challenge the island's authoritarian government and press for its unification with Greece.
• March 31 – Wilhelm II, German Emperor asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis.
• April 30 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral dissertation, A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions (submitted July 30 to the University of Zurich).
• June 7 – The Norwegian Parliament declares dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, giving Norway full independence.
• June 27 – (June 14 O.S.): Mutiny breaks out on the Russian ironclad Potemkin.
• July 22 – Taft–Katsura Secret Agreement: The United States and Japan meet to discuss their respective positions regarding Korea and the Philippines.
• Aug 20 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchu dynasty.
• September 1 – The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established, from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories.
• September 5 – Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth – In New Hampshire, a treaty mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is signed by Japan and Russia. Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin together with port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan.
• October 16 – The Partition of Bengal is made by Lord Curzon to separate the region of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu territories until its reunification in 1911.
• October 26 – Sweden agrees to the repeal of the union with Norway.
• October 16 – The Circum-Baikal Railway is brought into permanent operation, completing through rail communication on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
• October 30– (October 17 Old Style) – October Manifesto: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is forced to announce the granting of his country's first constitution (the Russian Constitution of 1906), conceding a national assembly (State Duma) with limited powers.
• November 12 – Norway holds a referendum, resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
• November 17 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 ("Eulsa Treaty") effectively makes Korea a protectorate of Japan.
• November 18 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
• November 28 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin, as a political party whose goal is independence for all of Ireland.
• November–December – Russian Revolution of 1905: In the Baltic governorates, workers and peasants burn and loot hundreds of Baltic German manors. The Imperial Russian Army thereafter executes and deports thousands of looters.
• December 2 – Norsk Hydro, predecessor of Equinor, a state-run energy product and grid brand in Scandinavia, founded in Norway.
• December 7–18 – Moscow Uprising: A Bolshevik-led revolt is suppressed by the army.
• December 9 – The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State is passed, enacting laïcité.
• December 30 – A bomb kills Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho; the case leads to a trial against leaders of the Western Federation of Miners.

Date unknown

• Alfred Einhorn introduces novocaine.
• Wolves become extinct in Japan.
• Civil service examinations are abolished in Qing dynasty China.
• Ta-Ching Government Bank, predecessor of Bank of China, is founded in Peiping.
• Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus).

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Dreyfus Affair	November 1894	1906	Political scandal that polarised France 1894-1906

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Fudan University		Public	One of the most prestigious and selective universities in China
University of California/Davis		Public research university Space-grant Land-grant	The northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system.
Missouri State University		Public State university	Midwestern University
Union Graduate School			College in New York State, merged with Clarkson University in 2016.
Seven Society			The most secretive of the University of Virginia's secret societies
Australian Bureau of Statistics			Statistical bureau which apparently is incapable of calculating excess deaths after the Covid jabs.
League for Industrial Democracy			The focus began to shift in the 1950s when it became involved in the CIA's anticommunist efforts.
Yara International			Chemical company that is one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic fertilisers
Juilliard School			Prestigious dance, drama, and music school
University of Sheffield		Research Public	University in Sheffield, England.
Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs			A significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative.
Norsk Hydro			Norwegian company with heavy Bilderberg habit. One of the largest aluminium companies worldwide. Formerly also world big in fertilizers and heavy water, used to make nuclear weapons.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Harry Sporborg	1905		1985	Spook Lawyer Financier Deep politician	Spook alleged to have envisaged Operation Gladio.
Gerry Droller	1905	Germany	1992	Spook
William Gossett	1905	US Texas Gainesville	20 July 1998	Lawyer	Ford Motor Company executive appointed Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations by JFK (on the advice of Robert S. McNamara)
Philip Mosely	1905		13 January 1972	Spook Academic Deep state functionary	Spooky academic
John Corson	1905	Washington DC	2 September 1990	Academic Bureaucracy	Part of the US governing set, in and out of government,academia and private business.
John Beevor	1905		1987	Spook	British SOE spook who prepared a stay behind network in Portugal during WW2. Father of British historian Anthony Beevor.
Carmine Bellino	1905	US New Jersey	February 1990	Spook	Spooky FBI officer
Hans Koch	1905		1987		Danish Bilderberg bureaucrat. President of Executive Board of the Danish Atomic Energy Commission
Sven Dahlman	2 January 1905	Sweden Härnösand	6 May 2000	Diplomat Journalist	Swedish diplomat and journalist
Herbert Bowden	20 January 1905	Wales Cardiff UK	30 April 1994		Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons 1964-1966
Henry Thynne	26 January 1905		30 June 1992	British aristocrat	British aristocrat, landowner, and Conservative Party politician. Amassed what would become the largest collection of paintings by Adolf Hitler,
Alfred Schaefer	30 January 1905		8 September 1986	Financier	Attended the 1970 Bilderberg as president of the supervisory board of UBS.
Oliver Franks	16 February 1905	Birmingham Selly Oak	15 October 1992	Diplomat Civil servant Deep state actor	Bilderberg UK Ambassador to the US, 'One of the founders of the postwar world'.
Urs Schwarz	25 February 1905		12 October 1996	Editor	Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1960s as ex International Press Institute/President
Raymond Aron	14 March 1905	France Paris	17 October 1983	Journalist Philosopher Sociologist	French sociologist who attended 3 Bilderbergs from 1957 to 1966
Carl Curtis	15 March 1905	Nebraska Minden	24 January 2000
Alfred Mozer	15 March 1905		12 August 1979	Politician	Attended the 1963 and 1964 Bilderbergs
Albert Speer	19 March 1905	Germany Mannheim Baden	1 September 1981	Author Government official Architect	German Minister of Armaments and War Production in WW2
Gaston Eyskens	1 April 1905	Belgium Lier	3 January 1988	Politician	3 term Prime Minister of Belgium
George S. Moore	1 April 1905		21 April 2000	Banker	Led an early effort by multinational corporations to open Latin America to them.
Johnny Roselli	April 1905	Italy Lazio Esperia	7 August 1976	Crime boss JFK/Assassination/Premature death HSCA/Premature deaths	Mobster for the Chicago Outfit. Died just before the HSCA.
J. William Fulbright	9 April 1905	Missouri Sumner U.S.	9 February 1995	Politician	The longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Herman van Roijen	10 April 1905	Turkey Istanbul	16 March 1991	Diplomat Politician	Dutch diplomat and politician member of the Dutch Round Table
Louis Camu	11 April 1905	Alost	12 November 1976	Banker	Belgian atlanticist banker and multi-Bilderberger. Proponent of European unification and creating a single European currency.
Warren Magnuson	12 April 1905	Minnesota Moorhead	20 May 1989	Politician Lawyer	U.S. Representative (1937–1944) and a U.S. Senator (1944–1981) from Washington state.
Frits Philips	16 April 1905	Netherlands Eindhoven	5 December 2005	Businessperson	Dutch Bilderberger businessman. Philips family member and chairman of Philips. Helped finance the anti-communist/socialist Interdoc network and conspired with other businessmen to buy up major newspapers considered to friendly to the left.
Harry Pilkington	29 April 1905		23 December 1983	Businessperson	Attended the first Bilderberg as President of the Federation of British Industries, and two more in the 1950s
Abraham Zapruder	15 May 1905	Kovel Russia/Tsarist Russia	30 August 1970	Dress manufacturer	Russian American who took cine film of the JFK Assassination, which was sold to Charles Jackson of Time/Life and then never shown for years.
Lammot du Pont Copeland	19 May 1905	Delaware Christiana Hundred U.S.	1 July 1983	Businessperson Du Pont family	Part of the influential DuPont chemical family, activist for population control
U. E. Baughman	21 May 1905	US	6 November 1978	Spook	Chief of the United States Secret Service between 1948 and 1961, denied the existence of organised crime
Tom Driberg	22 May 1905		12 August 1976	Politician	MI5 MP, UK/VIPaedophile victim, possibly also a spy for the USSR
Donald Fleming	23 May 1905	Ontario Exeter	31 December 1986	Politician Lawyer	Canadian politician. Attended the 1961 Bilderberg meeting before becoming Minister of Justice and Attorney General in 1962.
Joseph Harsch	25 May 1905	Ohio Toledo	3 June 1998	Journalist	As correspondent for each of the three major broadcast US networks he "shaped as much as has any journalist the American public’s understanding of the breathtaking events of the 20th century". 1958 and 1962 Bilderbergs
Ernest Cuneo	27 May 1905	New Jersey Carlstadt	1 March 1988	Author Spook Lawyer Athlete
Harry Houghton	7 June 1905	Lincoln UK	23 May 1985	Spook	British Naval SNCO and a spy for the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
William Raborn	8 June 1905	Texas Decatur	6 March 1990	Spook Mariner	United States Navy officer who became Director of Central Intelligence . Allegedly incompetent at CIA, not understanding the agency or the intelligence business".
Jean-Paul Sartre	21 June 1905	France Paris	15 April 1980	Philosopher
John Loudon	27 June 1905	Netherlands The Hague	4 February 1996	Businessperson	Anglo/Dutch CEO of Shell, and close friend with David Rockefeller. Attended the 1962, 1965, 1975 Bilderbergs.
Gorden Sunderland Campbell	5 July 1905		19 September 1962	Spook Soldier	Reportedly had "intimate operational knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the assassination" of John F. Kennedy
Hans-Joachim von Merkatz	7 July 1905		25 February 1982	Politician Deep state operative	First president of the Vaduz Institute
David Kennedy	21 July 1905		1 May 1996	Diplomat	Chicago banker, Secretary of the Treasury and NATO ambassador under Nixon, with hints at deep state connections.
Dag Hammarskjöld	29 July 1905	Sweden Jönköping	18 September 1961	Author Diplomat Economist	The 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations who died in highly suspicious circumstances while trying to make peace in the Congo.
Michael Chomiak	12 August 1905	Ukraine Lvov	1984	Spook Soldier Editor Farmer	Nazi Editor in Chief turned Canadian farmer
Angelo de Mojana di Cologna	13 August 1905	Italy Milan Lombardy	18 January 1988	Deep state operative	Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta 1962-1988
Constantin Stavropoulos	15 August 1905		6 November 1984
Cyril Kleinwort	17 August 1905		1980		UK businessman
Theodor Benzinger	23 August 1905	Germany Stuttgart	26 October 1999	Researcher
Heinz Lammerding	27 August 1905		13 January 1971	War criminal	German war criminal who had a very smooth ride after WW2 ended.
Adolph Bentinck	3 September 1905		7 March 1970	Diplomat Dutch nobility	Diplomat & liaison of Dutch deep politicians, including Joseph Luns
Eleanor McBean	12 September 1905	California	6 June 1989	Author Activist "Anti-vaxxer"
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