1904
1905
history - Russo-Japanese War - abortive Russian Revolution of 1905 - Battleship Potemkin uprising, a rebellion of the crew against their oppressive officers - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma) - Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas - the Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, and Norway achieves full independence
culture - Albert Einstein formulates the theory of special relativity and states the law of mass-energy conservation - Max Weber: Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus - Nettie Stevens and Edmund Beecher Wilson independently describe the XY sex-determination system - Sigmund Freud: Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality) - Pathé Frères colorise black-and-white films by machine - the Art Deco movement begins in France - the Fauvism movement is founded, led by Henri Matisse and André Derain - Formation of the Dresden Die Brücke expressionist architecture movement - Stoclet House, Brussels by Josef Hoffmann - Darwin D. Martin House completed in Buffalo, New York by Frank Lloyd Wright - Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat - Debendranath Tagore (†) - Adolph von Menzel (†) - Jules Verne (†)
music - Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande - Claude Debussy: La Mer - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5. Kindertotenlieder (Songs of the Death of Children) (song-cycle) - Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály: music ethnological studies - Franz Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) - Richard Strauss: Salome - Chicago IL, Pekin Theatre, the first black owned musical and vaudeville stock theatre in the United States
- Europe: UK: London - recordings for Odeon (German) - Laura Bowman, Pete Hampton...
- 1905.02.00? - Europe: UK: London - recordings for Edison Bell - Pete Hampton...
- ---- --- -- -- -- Europe: UK: London - recordings for Odeon (German) - Pete Hampton...
- 1905.03.00? - Europe: UK: London - recordings for Electric - Pete Hampton...
- 1905.04.10 -- US: New York City - recordings for Victor - Victor Dance Orchestra (Walter B. Rodgers, Emil Keneke, Walter Pryor, O. Edward Wardwell, Louis H. Christie, A. Levy, Darius Lyons, Arthur Trempte, Charles D'Almaine, Theodore Levy, Frank E. Reschke, Herman Conrad, S.O. Pryor)