January 1905

Monday 02:

Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur, China.

Monday 09:

According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Sunday 22:

'Bloody Sunday' in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

Thursday 26:

The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.