Ernest
Rutherford and Frederick
Soddy explained radioactivity as the emission of particles from
the nucleus and established the laws of the spontaneous transmutation of
the elements.
17th July - The Russian
Social Democratic Workers Party met, first in Brussels and then
London because their leaders had been forced into exile by the Russian
Government
10th August - Battle
of the Yellow Sea - The Japanese fleet prevented Russians
breaking out of Port Arthur
24th August - At the Battle
of Liao-Yang 200,000 Japanese won a tactical victory against
150,000 Russian troops.
1905
22nd January - In St Petersburg,
Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father
Georgi Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the
Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday'
September - The Treaty
of Portsmouth formally ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
27th June - Russian sailors mutinied aboard the battleship
"Potemkin" and sail for Odessa, survivors joined civilians in
revolutionary actions of the '1905
Revolution'
8th July - The soldiers of the Russian battleship "Potemkin" who
mutinied, surrendered to Romanian authorities.
8th February - Without warning,
Japanese torpedo boats made a night attack on Russian ships near the
naval base at Port
Arthur, Manchuria, war had not been declared.