The exposition of these ideas, encouraged by Widor and Munch, became Schweitzer's next task, and appeared in the masterly study J. S. Bach: Le Musicien-Poète, written in French and published in 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.

In 1905, Potter and Norman Warne became unofficially engaged.

In 1905 he became professor at the School of Oriental Studies in Berlin.

This work was well received and became the subject of a seminar given by Wilhelm Dilthey ; Husserl in 1905 traveled to Berlin to visit Dilthey.

In 1905, Madero became increasingly involved in opposition to the government of Porfirio Díaz.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

Spindletop became the focus of frenzied drilling ; oil production from the field peaked in 1902 at, but by 1905 production had declined 90 % from the peak.

In 1905, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau became the first national anthem to be sung at the start of a sporting event.

Holden & Co became Holden & Frost Ltd. Edward Holden, James ' grandson, joined the firm in 1905 with an interest in automobiles.

Born in the Bonnevoie neighborhood of Luxembourg City, Gernsback emigrated to the United States in 1905 and later became a naturalized citizen.

After a historic race between Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, the beach became a mecca for racing enthusiasts and 15 records were set on what became the Daytona Beach road course between 1905 and 1935.

Following the passage of the Papua Act, 1905, British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua, and formal Australian administration began in 1906, although Papua remained de jure a British possession until the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975.

In 1905, when Alberta was carved out of the territories and made a province, Bennett became the first leader of the Alberta Conservative Party.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth had departed her family after the death of her husband in 1905 and donated all her wealth to the poor and became a nun, but was nonetheless killed.

It became a province in 1905.

Thus, Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open, and the Australian Open ( dating to 1905 ) became and have remained the most prestigious events in tennis.

In 1905, this became the German colony of Togoland.

These ships, which, after the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), became known simply as destroyers, were basically enlarged torpedo boats, with speed equal to or surpassing the torpedo boats, but were armed with heavier guns that could attack them before they were able to close on the main fleet.

When the union with Sweden was dissolved in 1905, the university became important for producing highly educated men and women who could serve as experts in a society which placed increasing emphasis on ensuring that all its citizens enjoy a life of dignity and security.

In 1901 the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba changed the University Act so that the university could do its own teaching, and in 1905 a building in downtown Winnipeg became its first teaching facility with a staff of six science professors.

The city became the capital of Regierungsbezirk Allenstein, a government administrative region in East Prussia, in 1905.

After Wilde's play and Richard Strauss's operatic version of the same, first performed in 1905, the erotic ' dance of the seven veils ', became a standard routine for dancers in opera, vaudeville, film and burlesque.

The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

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

H. J. Heinz was incorporated in 1905, and Heinz served as its first president, remaining in the position for the rest of his life.

H. J. Heinz was incorporated in 1905, and Heinz served as its first president, remaining in the position for the rest of his life.

Lord Rayleigh was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1873, and served as president of the Royal Society from 1905 to 1908.

* 1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil ( b. 1905 )

** Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian president ( b. 1905 )

Roosevelt's first term as president ( 1901 – 1905 ) was incomplete, as he succeeded to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley ; it was only his second term ( 1905 – 1909 ) that encompassed four full years.

# Henry Sturgis Drinker ( 1905 – 1920 ), the only alumnus to serve as president

In 1905 president Pedro José Escalón began construction of the National Palace, funded by coffee exportation taxes.

The club was established in 1905 with the name Sporting Gijonés, Anselmo López being the first president.

* Andrew Sledd ( 1870 – 1939 ), first president of the University of Florida ( 1905 – 1909 ), president of Southern University ( 1910 – 1914 ), noted professor of Greek and New Testament literature at the Candler School of Theology ( 1914 – 1939 )

* Claybrook Cottingham, president of Mount Lebanon University from 1905 – 1906 ; president of Louisiana College from 1910 – 1941, and president of Louisiana Tech University from 1941 until his death in 1949, lived in Mount Lebanon from 1902-1906.

* Mary Roebling ( 1905 – 94 ), first woman to serve as the president of a commercial bank in the United States and the first female governor of the American Stock Exchange.

In 1905, Gokhale became president of the Indian National Congress.

In 1905, when Gokhale was elected president of the Indian National Congress and was at the height of his political power, he founded the Servants of India Society to specifically further one of the causes dearest to his heart: the expansion of Indian education.

Again, in 1902, he became minister of finance, after nearly ten years in exclusion from office, in the Radical cabinet of Émile Combes ; and on the fall of the Combes ministry in January 1905 he was invited by the president to form a new ministry.

Max Heindel was vice president during 1904 and 1905.

Mulock became the first president of Canada's first national, secular peace organization, the Canadian Peace and Arbitration Society, founded in 1905.

Horace Porter, ( April 15, 1837 – May 29, 1921 ) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U. S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905.