In 1905 Widor and Schweitzer were among the six musicians who founded the Paris Bach Society, a choir dedicated to performing J. S.

* 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company ( d. 1905 )

The Bolsheviks, founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov, were by 1905 a mass organization consisting primarily of workers under a democratic internal hierarchy governed by the principle of democratic centralism, who considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary working class of Russia.

The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area, including East Street Mission and Blundell Mission, combined to form Charlton Athletic.

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.

Chelsea were founded on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub ( now The Butcher's Hook ), opposite the present-day main entrance to the ground on Fulham Road, and were elected to the Football League shortly afterwards.

In 1905, Haeckel founded a group called the " Monist League " to promote his religious and political beliefs.

Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the National Park Service.

In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.

Politically, these opposition forces organized into three competing parties: The liberal elements among the industrial capitalists and nobility, who believed in peaceful social reform and a constitutional monarchy, founded the Constitutional Democratic party or Kadets in 1905.

Beside this, Pasteur, along with Robert Koch ( who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905 ), founded bacteriology.

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

In 1905 he founded the Nippon Club, which was for many years located at 161 West 93rd Street in Manhattan.

* 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.

The Ancient Order of Druids founded in 1781 had many aspects of freemasonry, and have practised rituals at Stonehenge since 1905.

A notable exception is Japan's Cambridge and Oxford Society, probably arising from the fact that the Cambridge Club was founded there first, and also had more members than its Oxford counterpart when they amalgamated in 1905.

* Denmark-Selskabet for Psykisk Forskning ( The Danish Society for Psychical Research ) was founded in 1905.

Based in Budapest, it was founded in 1905.

The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States ( mainly the Western Federation of Miners ) who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ).

Sinn Féin was a previously non-violent separatist party founded by Arthur Griffith in 1905.

Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the Federal Government.

Monmouth is home to Monmouth Town F. C., a football club founded around 1905 and enjoying a relatively successful run of form.

A similar building was erected at Northwest Missouri State University founded in 1905 in Maryville, Missouri.

It was started in 1905 by Paul Berthelot, three years before UEA was founded.

In 1905 William Lewis Moody, Jr. and Isaac H. Kempner, members of two of Galveston's leading families, founded the American National Insurance Company.

* 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.

Max Weber published four major texts on religion in a context of economic sociology and his rationalization thesis: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism ( 1915 ), The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism ( 1915 ), and Ancient Judaism ( 1920 ).

* April 4 – In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20, 000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala.

From October 1905 the Prince and Princess of Wales undertook another eight month tour, this time of India, and the children were once again left in the care of their grandparents.

Alexandra again looked after her grandchildren when George and Mary went on a second tour, this time to British India, over the winter of 1905 – 1906.

A village in India, c. 1905

In the spring of 1904, Fuller was sent with his unit to India, where he contracted enteric fever in autumn of 1905 ; he returned to England the next year on sick-leave, where he met the woman he married in December 1906.

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

Kitchener presided over the Rawalpindi Parade 1905 to honour the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to India.

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.

From the end of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 until the start of the World War I the Gurkha Regiments saw active service in Burma, Afghanistan, the North-East Frontier and the North-West Frontiers of India, Malta ( the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78 ), Cyprus, Malaya, China ( the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 ) and Tibet ( Younghusband's Expedition of 1905 ).

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910 and again briefly, as acting Secretary, in 1911

The 4th Earl Minto served as Viceroy of India ( 1905 – 10 ).

In 1905, on the resignation of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Lord Minto was appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India, retiring in 1910.

Amar Shonar Bangla (, " My Golden Bengal ") is a 1905 song written and composed by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore ( defender of an undivided India ), the first ten lines of which were adopted in 1972 as the Bangladeshi national anthem.

The song was written in 1905 during the period of Bongobhanga ( Bôngobhôngo-1905 Partition of Bengal )-when the ruling British empire had the province of Bengal ( of undivided India ) split into two parts ; the decision on the Partition of Bengal was announced on 19 July 1905 by then Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | Lord Curzon in his robes as Viceroy of India, a post he held from 1899 – 1905.

* Walter John Christie ( 1905 – 1982 )-British India civil servant

The foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales on the 11 November 1905 and the museum was formally named " Prince of Wales Museum of Western India ".

A photograph of Main Hall of The American College in Madurai, India taken around 1905

From 1903-1905, he was Botanist to the South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye ; and from 1905 – 1924, he was Imperial Economic Botanist to the Government of India.

Lord Lansdowne was Governor-General of Canada from 1883 to 1888, Viceroy of India from 1888 to 1894, Secretary of State for War from 1895 to 1900, Foreign Secretary from 1900 to 1905, Co-Leader of the Conservative Party from 1911 to 1916 and also served in the war-time coalition government as Minister without Portfolio from 1915 to 1916.