The following lists events that happened during

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

in Afghanistan.

Incumbents

* Monarch – Habibullah Khan

January 1905

Inayatullah Khan Inayatullah Khan (Pashto/Dari: ), (20 October 1888 – 12 August 1946) was the King of Afghanistan for three days in January 1929. He was the son of former Afghan Emir, Habibullah Khan. Inayatullah's brief reign ended with his abdication. I ...

finishes his Indian visit, and on his return to Kabul expresses the greatest pleasure at the manner in which he was received.

Early 1905

The ''amir'' issues a proclamation inviting the Hazaras to return, and allowing them until October to do so. A large number of them accordingly return during the summer, and many of the leading supporters of Shir Ali who were exiles in India since his overthrow also seek and obtain permission to return to their homes.

Early April 1905

The special mission under

Louis Dane Sir Louis William Dane (21 March 1856 – 22 February 1946) was an administrator during the time of the British Raj. Early life He was born on 21 March 1856 at Chichester, Sussex, the fifth son of Richard Martin Dane, an army staff surgeon, an ...

in Kabul completes its work successfully and returns to India. The only visible result of its labours is the renewal with the present ''amir'', Habibullah Khan, of the treaty formerly made with his father, with an increase of his annual subsidy from twelve to 1.8 million

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s, but the relations between him and Dane were throughout of the most cordial and intimate character, and all matters affecting the interests of the ''amir'' and the government of India were fully and freely discussed. It is thought in some British quarters that more might have been obtained from the ''amir'', but it is seen as far better to accept what he was prepared to offer of his own free will than to obtain larger concessions from him by pressure. Suggestions which have been put forward that there should be a British resident in Kabul, that British officers should be lent to organize the Afghan army, or that railways should be pushed forward into Afghanistan to connect its chief cities with British India, so that they might be at once garrisoned by British troops in case of threatened attack, are all open to the objection that any such steps would arouse the deepest resentment amongst the people. As it is, Britain secures the friendship and confidence of the ''amir'', who shows the change in his relations with Britain by drawing the arrears of his subsidy, which he had declined to receive for some time, and employing the money to strengthen the defenses of his country. On the evening before the mission left Kabul its members were entertained at dinner by the ''amir'', who had Dane on his right, whilst the other officers were placed between the chief men of his court. This was the first time that he or they had eaten with infidels. {{Asia topic, 1905 in Afghanistan Years of the 20th century in Afghanistan Afghanistan 1900s in Afghanistan