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.

In 1905 he became president of the American Philosophical Association.

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.

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.

* 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( d. 1963 )

* Alfons Goppel ( 1905 – 1991 ), German politician

It is named after Ernst Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ), the German physicist who defined it.

German map in use in 1905 still showing the undivided Bechuanaland area

* 1815 – Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist ( d. 1905 )

German sociologist Max Weber mentioned Scottish Presbyterianism in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), and many scholars in recent decades argued that Calvinism's " this worldly asceticism " was integral to Scotland's rapid economic modernization.

* 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German nazi physician ( d. 1948 )

* 1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer ( d. 1905 )

* 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer ( d. 1946 )

* 1905 – Willy Hartner, German scientist ( d. 1981 )

Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( 2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963 ) was a German composer.

German attempts to counter this growing influence led to the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905 – 1906 and the Second Moroccan Crisis ( 1911.

Recognition by the United Kingdom in the 1904 Entente Cordiale of France's " sphere of influence " in Morocco provoked a German reaction ; the " crisis " of 1905 – 1906 was resolved at the Algeciras Conference ( 1906 ), which formalized France's " special position " and entrusted policing of Morocco jointly to France and Spain.

* 1905 – Werner Fenchel, German mathematician ( d. 1988 )

* 1833 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer ( d. 1905 )

* 1905 – Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German army officer and 20 July Plot conspirator ( d. 1944 )

* 1905 – Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress ( d. 1977 )

* 1978 – Karl Wallenda, German acrobat ( b. 1905 )

* 1905 – Erika Mann, German writer ( d. 1969 )

* 1905 – Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer ( d. 1990 )

* Bar-Kochba ( 1905 ), a German opera by Stanislaus Suda ( mus.

** Erika Mann, German writer ( b. 1905 )

** Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp ( b. 1905 )

* December 5 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( b. 1905 )