Between 1899 and 1905, she spent $ 3 million on a grand construction scheme building lavish memorials to the Stanford family, while university faculty and self-supporting students were living in poverty.

However, in 1901, she transferred $ 30 million in assets, nearly all her remaining wealth, to the university ; upon her death in 1905, she left the university nearly $ 4 million of her remaining $ 7 million.

Although not formally a member of the Universalist Church of America, in a 1905 letter to the widow of Carl Norman Thrasher, she identified herself with her parents ' church as a " Universalist ”.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

M. L .' She became Lady Mary Trefusis when she married Lt .- Col. Henry W. Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis in 1905.

Clara Bow was born in 1905 in a slum tenement in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York, where she was also raised.

In 1905 she collected and published her own verses, The Lonely Crossing and other Poems.

Her literary output included popular books for adults ; with her sister, Nora A. Smith, she published scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel: Froebel's Gifts ( 1895 ), Froebel's Occupations ( 1896 ), and Kindergarten Principles and Practice ( 1896 ); and she wrote the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ( 1903 ), as well as the 1905 best-seller Rose o ' the River.

In 1905, she married investment banker Edward Bennett Close of Greenwich, Connecticut, and divorced in 1919.

1905 she visited the artistic capital of the world, Paris, France.

In 1905 she ascended on a trapeze slung below a hot-air balloon to a height of 2-4, 000 feet before descending on a parachute.

Hull made her stage debut in stock in 1905, and after some years as a chorus girl and touring stock player, she married actor Shelly Hull ( the elder brother of actor Henry Hull ) in 1910.

Patti cut more than 30 gramophone recordings of songs and operatic arias ( some of them duplicates ) — plus one spoken voice recording ( a New Year's greeting to her third husband, which she intended him to keep as a memento ) — at her Welsh home in 1905 and 1906.

In 1905 she participated in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), and began editing the Liberator, an anarchist newspaper that supported the IWW in Chicago.

In 1905 during a race she became the first French woman to swim the length of the Seine through Paris.

In the belief she was recovering, the four of them set sail for Australia in December 1905, but Lady Rawson died on board the ship " Ormuz " in the Red Sea on 3 December 1905 and was buried at sea.

In 1985, she married F. E. L. Priestley ( Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley ) ( 1905 – 1988 ), a professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, who died in 1988.

They founded the university in 1891 as a memorial to their only child, Leland Stanford Jr. After her husband's death in 1893, she funded and operated the university almost single-handedly until her death in 1905.

In 1905 she directed the university trustees that after her death, her jewels should be sold and the funds used as a permanent endowment " to be used exclusively for the purchase of books and other publications.

In 1905, along with artists Sarah Purser, Nathaniel Hone, Walter Osborne and John Butler Yeats, she was instrumental in founding the United Artists Club, which was an attempt to bring together all those in Dublin with an artistic and literary bent.

He had been attracted in his school days to the study of Scandinavian history and literature, and he was closely allied with Professor Guðbrandur Vigfússon ( d. 1889 ), whom he assisted in his Icelandic Prose Reader ( 1897 ), Corpus Poeticum Boreale ( 1887 ), and Origines Islandicae ( 1905 ), and in the editing of the Grimm Centenary papers ( 1886 ).

Financially assisted by a member of the family of Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe who had taken an interest in the budding musician, Howells began music lessons in 1905 with Herbert Brewer, the organist of Gloucester Cathedral, and at sixteen became his articled pupil at the Cathedral alongside Ivor Novello and Ivor Gurney.

Charles then assisted Patrick on the firm's first venture into Wales, a massive commission to construct docks and a railway at Port Talbot, followed by an equally ambitious scheme to expand the port of Seaham, officially opened in 1905.

At the local Cambridge Examinations of 1905, Richmond earned top position among assisted schools and second place among all schools in Ceylon.

Thomas Robert Bard ( December 8, 1841March 5, 1915 ) was a political leader in California who assisted in the organization of Ventura County and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1900 to 1905 as a Republican.

Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.

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.

The eight books in the series starting with the Tale of Hill Top Farm ( 2004 ) deal with her life in the Lake District and the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.

Hannah was released from the asylum eight months later, but in March 1905 her madness returned, this time permanently.

When doctors could not help Alexei, the Tsarina looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, Anna Vyrubova, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer Rasputin in 1905.

Anne married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914.

Ludwig's sister Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein | Margaret, painted by Gustav Klimt for her wedding portrait in 1905

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.

Julia left Riga the same year as the Russian Revolution ( 1905 ), bringing Sergei with her to St. Petersburg.

In 1905, while performing in Victorien Sardou's La Tosca in Teatro Lírico do Rio de Janeiro, Bernhardt injured her right knee when jumping off the parapet in the final scene.

Crawford was listed as five years old, thus showing 1905 as her likely year of birth.

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.

He was invited onto her boat during a 1905 cruise on the Rhine after his failure at the Prix de Rome, for which her husband, Alfred Edwards, organized a scandal in the newspapers.

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.

Britain's First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher argued the Japanese victory at Tsushima confirmed the importance of large guns and speed on modern battleships, and in October 1905 the British began construction of HMS Dreadnought, which upon her launching in 1906 began a dreadnought naval arms race between Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.

She began her novel Three Lives during the spring of 1905, and finished it the following year.