J. Desaulx suggested in 1877 that the phenomenon was caused by the thermal motion of water molecules, and in 1905 Albert Einstein produced the first mathematical analysis of the motion.

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

In 1905 he ordained the first Ismā ' īlī Constitution for the social governance of the community in East Africa.

* 1972 – Abeid Karume, African political leader, first president of Zanzibar ( b. 1905 )

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

* Mittlere Brücke ( current structure built 1905, original bridge built 1225 as the first bridge to cross the Rhine River )

This was first suggested by Mereschkowsky in 1905 after an observation by Schimper in 1883 that chloroplasts closely resemble cyanobacteria.

The club's first ground was Siemens Meadow ( 1905 – 1907 ), a patch of rough ground by the River Thames.

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

Since these first accounts, Bulgarian authorities had organized several population censuses: 1892, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2011.

The first census in Taiwan was conducted in 1905, while Taiwan was under Japanese rule.

| first Chelsea team in September 1905

Fleming patented the first true thermionic diode, the Fleming valve, in Britain on November 16, 1904 ( followed by in November 1905 ).

The first World Congress of Esperanto was organized in France in 1905.

In the early years, speakers of Esperanto kept in contact primarily through correspondence and periodicals, but in 1905 the first world congress of Esperanto speakers was held in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

Sapir's first fieldwork was on the Wishram Chinook language in the summer of 1905, funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Frederic Clements published the first American ecology book in 1905, presenting the idea of plant communities as a superorganism.

This theory is called the endosymbiotic theory, and was first articulated by the Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski in 1905.

At first the movement grew most in the Russian empire and eastern Europe, but soon spread to western Europe and beyond: to Argentina in 1889 ; to Canada in 1901 ; to Algeria, Chile, Japan, Mexico, and Peru in 1903 ; to Tunisia in 1904 ; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, Indochina, New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905.

A small international conference was held in 1904, leading to the first world congress in August 1905 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

At the first Esperanto congress, in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1905, a declaration was made which defined an " Esperantist " merely as one who knows and uses the language " regardless of what kind of aims he uses it for ", and which also specifically declared any ideal beyond the spread of the language itself to be a private matter for the individual speaker.

In his history of the game, historian David Nelson concluded that the first forward passes were thrown on Christmas Day 1905 in a match between two small colleges in Kansas: " Although Cochems was the premier passing coach during the first year of the rule, the first forward passes were thrown at the end of the 1905 season in a game between Fairmount and Washburn colleges in Kansas.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

With Chance acting as player-manager from 1905 to 1912, the Cubs won four pennants and two World Series titles over a five-year span.

World congresses have been held every year since 1905, except during the two World Wars.

By 1905, Pathé was the largest film company in the world, a position it retained until World War I. Léon Gaumont began film production in 1896, with his production supervised by Alice Guy.

Wabash College won the Men's Division III NCAA Championship in 1982 and their 1905 24-0 team was considered World Champions ; DePauw University and Manchester College were Div III National Finalists.

Official Poster of the Liège International ( 1905 ) | Liège's World fair in 1905

* Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, an international union founded in 1905

Perhaps the most frequently-performed of his symphonies are No. 4, for strings, and No. 6 ; probably his most widely-known work, through performances and recordings, is his Concerto funebre for violin and strings, composed at the beginning of World War II and making use of a Hussite chorale and a Russian revolutionary song of 1905.

The majority of New York City's District Assembly 49 joined the Industrial Workers of the World at its 1905 foundation.

On the eve of the First World War a growing tension and unease with the social order, already seen in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the agitation of " radical " parties, also manifested itself in artistic works in every medium which radically simplified or rejected previous practice.

After New York Giants ' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a " white elephant on his hands ," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.

Hitler had big plans for Berlin, to transform it into the Welthauptstadt ( World Capital ) Germania, to be realised by his architect friend Albert Speer ( 1905 – 81 ).

The Giants won the 1905 World Series over the Philadelphia Athletics, with Christy Mathewson nearly winning the series single-handedly.

In 1905, the notorious and tragic Dutch dancer Mata Hari, later shot as a spy by the French authorities during World War I, was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musée Guimet.

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

In 1905, aged seventeen, Canaris joined the German Imperial Navy and by the outbreak of World War I was serving on board the SMS Dresden as an intelligence officer.

** SMS Königsberg ( 1905 ), lead ship of the class, stationed in German East Africa at the start of World War I

*, a 1905 Tribal-class ( or F-class ) destroyer that served in World War I.

In the 1905 World Series, Mathewson pitched three shutouts in the Giants victory.

Mathewson's Giants won the 1905 World Series over the Philadelphia Athletics.

The 1905 World Series capped an impressive year for Mathewson as he had already won the National League Triple Crown for pitchers, and threw the second no-hitter of his career.