The Battle of Tsushima was the decisive naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War, fought in the Tsushima Strait between Korea and Japan. The Russian Baltic Fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, had sailed for seven months around Africa and Asia to relieve Port Arthur, which had already fallen, and reached the strait exhausted, trying to get to Vladivostok. The Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo Heihachiro, with better training, speed and gunnery, destroyed most of the Russian ships in a day and a night, and took thousands of prisoners. Russian losses were enormous, while Japan lost only a few small ships. The defeat helped to bring about the Treaty of Portsmouth and contributed to unrest in Russia, and it marked the arrival of Japan as a great naval power.
Before and after
- 24 March 1905Death of Jules Verne
- 30 April 1905First match of the Netherlands national association football team
- 11 May 1905Birth of Mikhail Sholokhov
- 16 May 1905Birth of Henry Fonda
- 28 May 1905Battle of Tsushima
- 21 June 1905Birth of Jean-Paul Sartre
- from July 1905 to August 1907Majimaji War
- 25 July 1905Birth of Elias Canetti
- 29 July 1905Birth of Dag Hammarskjöld
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