Timeline October 1905

Events in October 1905 6

• 1838 – 1905 Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) Died 13 October 1905, aged 67 English actor Henry Irving was the leading Shakespearean performer of the Victorian stage and manager of London's Lyceum Theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor ever to be knighted, a recognition of the growing respectability of his profession. He collapsed and died shortly after a performance in Bradford.
• 1905 The October general strike And the first soviet A railway workers' strike spreads until the empire stops: no trains, no telegraph, no newspapers, no schools, no water in parts of St Petersburg. Around two million people are out. In St Petersburg the strikers elect a council of delegates — the first soviet — with a young Leon Trotsky soon at its head. For a few weeks it is effectively a rival government.
• 1905 Wright brothers fly the first practical airplane Wright Flyer III completes sustained, controlled flight Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their Wright Flyer III near Dayton, Ohio, achieving a flight that remained airborne for 39 minutes and covered more than 24 miles under full pilot control. The aircraft is considered the first truly practical airplane, capable of banking, turning, and circling reliably. It built directly on their pioneering 1903 flights at Kitty Hawk.
• 1905 – 1911 The Partition of Bengal Divide and rule, stated plainly Lord Curzon splits Bengal into a Muslim-majority east and a Hindu-majority west, arguing administrative efficiency for a province of seventy-eight million. Indians read it as an attempt to break the most politically active population in the empire, and the Swadeshi movement — boycott of British goods, promotion of Indian ones — is the response. It is the moment Indian nationalism becomes a mass movement rather than a petitioning society. The partition is reversed in 1911. The line drawn returns in 1947.
• 1905 Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto Tsar concedes civil liberties and an elected legislature Facing mounting unrest, Tsar Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto, promising civil liberties, a broadened franchise, and an elected legislature, the State Duma. The concession split the opposition and temporarily calmed the revolutionary wave, though it left the tsar's autocratic powers largely intact. It marked Russia's first step toward constitutional government.
• 1905 The October Manifesto A constitution, signed under duress Drafted by Sergei Witte and put to the Tsar on 14 October, the manifesto grants freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association, and an elected Duma without whose approval no law may take effect. Nicholas argues for three days and signs on 30 October, writing afterwards that he felt sick with shame. Liberals accept it and go home. Socialists call it a trick. The opposition coalition breaks, which was the point. Old Style 17 October.