The Treaty of Portsmouth ended the Russo-Japanese War, and was negotiated at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire through the mediation of US President Theodore Roosevelt. The Russian delegation was headed by Sergei Witte, and the Japanese delegation by the foreign minister Komura Jutaro. Japan, which had won the main battles on land and at sea, received Russia's lease of Port Arthur and the southern half of the island of Sakhalin, and Russia recognised Japan's dominant interests in Korea. Russia did not pay an indemnity, which caused anger in Japan, where riots took place. Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role, and the treaty confirmed Japan's emergence as a great power.
Before and after
- 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
- 5 September 1905Treaty of Portsmouth
- 18 September 1905Birth of Greta Garbo
- 14 October 1905Founding of World Air Sports Federation
- 23 October 1905Birth of Felix Bloch
- 17 November 1905Japan–Korea Treaty of November 1905
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