Editing 1905 (section)

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1905}}
* [[February 1]] &ndash; U.S. Senator [[John H. Mitchell]] of [[Oregon]] is indicted by a federal grand jury on charges arising from [[Oregon land fraud scandal|a scandal involving land grants in the state]] and illegally using his influence for private clients.<ref name=Feb05/>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; The first performance of ''[[A Shropshire Lad]]'', the setting to music of the 1896 set of 63 poems of [[Alfred Edward Housman|A. E. Housman]] by [[Arthur Somervell]] as a [[song-cycle]], takes place at [[Aeolian Hall (London)|Aeolian Hall]] in [[London]].<ref>Stephen Banfield, ''Sensibility and English Song'' (Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 233-234</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Argentine Revolution of 1905|A simultaneous uprising begins at six cities in Argentina]] against the government of President [[Manuel Quintana]]. 
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The French ship ''[[Anjou (ship)|Anjou]]'' is wrecked off of the coast of the uninhabited [[Auckland Island]], located {{convert|290|mi}} from the nearest inhabited land in [[New Zealand]]. The castaways live on the isle for more than three months until being rescued on May 7.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-EdeIsla-t1-body-d12.html |title="Islands of Despair: The Wreck of the Anjou" |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616103437/http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-EdeIsla-t1-body-d12.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>"Chronique", ''Revue de l'Anjou'' (1905)  p. 541</ref>
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Eliel Soisalon-Soininen]], the [[Chancellor of Justice (Finland)|Chancellor of Justice]] of the [[Grand Duchy of Finland]] (at this time part of the Russian Empire) is assassinated at [[Helsingfors]] (Helsinki).<ref name=Feb05/> 
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Prince A. Morrow]] begins the movement in the U.S. for [[sex education]], with the founding of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis.<ref>Maurice A. Bigelow, ''Sex-Education: A Series of Lectures Concerning Knowledge of Sex and Its Relation to Human Life'' (The Macmillan Company, 1916) p. 227</ref><ref>''History of Social Hygiene 1850-1930'' (American Social Hygiene Association, 1930) pp. 1–6</ref>
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The [[Switzerland national football team]] plays its first international game, losing to [[France national football team|France]], 1 to 0. 
* [[February 16]] &ndash; Six of the 11 crew of the British Royal Navy submarine [[HMS A5|HMS ''A5'']] are killed by a pair of explosions caused by gasoline fumes in port in Ireland.
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia]], the Governor-General of Moscow and uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, is assassinated.<ref name=Mar05>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YzUbvTmYVcYC ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews''] (April 1905) pp. 413-416</ref> 
* [[February 20]] &ndash; In the [[Russo-Japanese War]], the [[Battle of Mukden]] begins in [[Manchuria]]. 
* [[February 21]] &ndash; Sir [[Wilfrid Laurier]] introduces a resolution in the Canadian parliament proposing that two new provinces, [[Alberta]] and [[Saskatchewan]], be created out of the Northwest Territories.<ref name=Mar05/> 
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Rotary International]] is founded in [[Chicago]] in the U.S.<ref>[https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/history "Our History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112015004/https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/history |date=November 12, 2022 }}, Rotary International</ref>
* [[February 26]] &ndash; Russia sustains a severe defeat in Manchuria at Tsen-ho-Cheng.<ref name=Mar05/>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Jane Stanford]], the co-founder with her husband Leland of [[Stanford University]], is fatally poisoned while visiting the Moana Hotel in Hawaii.<ref>Richard White, ''Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University'' (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022)</ref>