Carl Hubert de Villeneuve’s 1820s sketch.
The last sighting of a Japanese wolf – a subspecies of the grey wolf – was recorded in Nara Prefecture on the 23rd of January, 1905.
In the century before, during the Meiji Restoration, killing the wolves had become a national policy.
A memorial statue now stands in the village of Higashiyoshino, where the last wolf was seen.
The animal is now considered extinct.
New York City has hosted an Easter parade on Fifth Avenue since the 19th century. Taking place on Easter Sunday, for decades it was one of the most significant cultural events of the year.
Here are some images of the parade from the late 19th and early 20th centuries:
Norway’s new royal family arrives in the capital, Christiania (now called Oslo) on the 25th of November, 1905.
The new king, Haakon VII, was a Danish prince who became ruler of Norway when the union with Sweden was dissolved that year.
Haakon ruled until his death in 1957, and is famous for his resistance against the long Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
In 1905
Kate Sheppard, New Zealand’s most famous suffragette, died on the 13th of July, 1934.
Born to Scottish parents in England in 1847, Sheppard moved to New Zealand in 1869.
She became a significant figure both in gaining women the vote, and then in getting women to the polls for the first time in 1893.
New Zealand was a leading nation in women’s suffrage, and Sheppard’s efforts gained her a place on the country’s $10 note.
On the 4th of April, 1905, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in northern India’s Kangra Valley. More than 20 000 people were killed, and some 100 000 buildings were destroyed.
Baby 1905 chases old 1904 into the history books.
On the 31st of October, 1941, Mount Rushmore, an American sculpture of the faces of four US Presidents, was completed.
Before construction began: 1905
The sculpture, in South Dakota, depicts George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The reason for the creation of the monument was to promote tourism in the area.
George Washington under construction circa 1932. X
The monument took fourteen years to construct.
The Battle of Tsushima was a major sea battle in the Russo-Japanese War, fought from the 27th to the 28th of May, 1905. This was the first naval battle in which radio played an important part.
It was won by Japan.
The Russo-Japanese War was a struggle between Russia and Japan for land and power in the East, begun in February 1904 and won by Japan in September of 1905.
Lubov Egorova in the title role of The Blue Dahlia, 1905.
Ballerina Lubov Egorova was born in St Petersburg on the 8th of August, 1880. Graduating from the Imperial Theatre School in her eighteenth year, with famous classmates including Enrico Cecchetti, she joined the Imperial Ballet as a coryphée.
An extremely successful dancer, amongst her great achievements was performing the lead role in The Sleeping Beauty opposite Ukrainian ballet superstar Vaslav Nijinsky.
Egorova married well, to Prince Nikita Sergeievitch Troubetzkoy. However, she eventually lost her husband, her son and her fortune. She died in Paris on the 18th of August, 1972. She was ninety-two.
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