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2005
Benedict XVI.
After the death of John Paul II , Benedict XVI. elected as the new Pope .
Frauenkirche in Dresden
The Dresden Frauenkirche has been rebuilt.
Angela Merkel and George W. Bush in Washington
Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor, George W. Bush takes up his second term in office.
2005 in other calendars
From urbe condita 2758
Armenian calendar 1453-1454
Ethiopian calendar 1997-1998
Badi calendar 161-162
Bengali calendar 1411-1412
Berber calendar 2955
Buddhist calendar 2549
Burmese calendar 1367
Byzantine calendar 7513-7514
Chinese calendar
 - era 4701-4702 or
4641-4642
 - 60 year cycle

Wood monkey (甲申, 21) -
wood rooster (乙酉, 22)

French
revolution calendar
CCXIII - CCXIV
213-214
Hebrew calendar 5765-5766
Hindu calendar
 - Vikram Sambat 2061-2062
 - Shaka Samvat 1927-1928
Iranian calendar 1383-1384
Islamic calendar 1425-1426
Japanese calendar
 - Nengō (era): Heisei 17th
 - Kōki 2665
Coptic calendar 1721-1722
Korean calendar
 - Dangun era 4338
 - Juche era 94
Minguo calendar 94
Modern Olympics XXVIII
Seleucid calendar 2316-2317
Thai solar calendar 2548

Annual dedications

people

Initiatives

Species protection

Events

Politics and world events

January

Samuel Schmid

February

March

April

Pope John Paul II
  • April 2nd : Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84 after almost 27 years of pontificate : the second longest in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. His death triggers great public mourning
  • April 4 : The smaller Austrian ruling party FPÖ splits into FPÖ and BZÖ
  • April 6 : Prince Rainier III. von Monaco dies after a long illness at the age of 81. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for 56 years.
  • April 9 : As the first African country to practice cliterodectomy, Benin officially ends the age of female genital mutilation in a public ceremony
  • April 9: Several thousand supporters of the radical Shiite leader Muktada al-Sadr demonstrate in Baghdad for the withdrawal of the occupation forces
  • April 9th: Beginning of the partly violent protests by the Chinese against Japan . In the following weeks protests broke out in Beijing , Canton , Shenzhen and Shanghai . The occasion is a Japanese textbook that, from a Chinese perspective, plays down the atrocities committed by Japan during the Second World War .
  • April 15 : The Bavarian Minister of Culture Monika Hohlmeier has resigned because of the affair of election fraud at the Munich CSU ( see Munich CSU affair )
Pope Benedict XVI

May

June

  • June 1 : The Dutch also vote against the EU constitution
  • June 22nd : Renaming of the PDS to Die Linkspartei.
  • June 22: Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) becomes Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia .
  • June 25 : In Iran , the ultra-conservative Tehran mayor Mahmud Ahmadinejad surprisingly wins the presidential elections. Observers now fear an end to the opening process, and the US is concerned about the Iranian nuclear program being expanded
  • June 25: The opposition party of the Socialists becomes the strongest party in the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria with 31.2 percent.

July

August

September

The distribution of seats in the new Bundestag

October

November

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf during the election campaign

December

terrorist attacks

  • January 2 : In Balad , 80 kilometers north of Baghdad , two suicide bombers killed 19 people and injured six
  • January 8th : When a car bomb explodes in front of the US headquarters in Baghdad, min. 25 people were killed around 100 injured
  • January 14 : Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Gaza Strip . Six Israelis killed .
  • January 18 : The radical Islamic Hamas carries out a suicide attack near Gush Katif in southern Gaza : One Israeli is killed, three wounded
  • January 29 : A landmine the Taliban are in Southwest afghanistan been nine soldiers killed
  • January 29: One day before the election in Iraq , eleven people were killed and four injured in several attacks
  • January 31 : In Spain , two people were injured in an ETA bomb attack in Dénia , near Alicante
  • February 5 : Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and one was seriously injured in a bomb explosion in Basra
  • February 8 : In an attack on an Iraqi army recruiting office in Baghdad, min. 21 people killed and min. 27 other people were injured
  • February 9 : In Madrid , 42 people were injured in an attack by ETA before the opening of the international art fair ARCO
  • February 14 : A car bomb explosion in front of a Shiite mosque in Balad Rus , 75 km northeast of Baghdad, kills 14 people and injures 20
  • 14 February: Rafik Hariri , a Lebanese ex-prime minister, in a car bomb attack in Beirut ( Lebanon killed). Another 16 people die and around 120 are injured. Afterwards, several hundred thousand demonstrated against the Syrian occupiers
  • February 18 : Approx. 30 people are killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad
  • February 19 : In three attacks in Baghdad and Bakuba seven people were killed and more than 35 others injured
  • February 24th : Car bomb attack in Tikrit . At least 15 dead and 20 injured
  • February 25 : Nine UN soldiers from Bangladesh are killed in an ambush in the Ituri district ( DR Congo ), min. eleven others injured
  • February 27 : Attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. Four dead, 50 injured. Israel makes Syria responsible
  • February 28 : At least 132 people die and 130 are injured in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Hilla
  • March 2 : Several attacks in Iraq. Eleven dead
  • March 2: UN soldiers kill 50 militiamen around 30 kilometers from Bunia (DR Congo)
  • March 19 : 39 people die in a bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims in the southwestern Pakistani city ​​of Fatahpur
  • March 20 : A person dies in an attack in Doha ( Qatar )
  • March 22nd : Around 100 people are killed near Tikrit in fighting between US and Iraqi forces on the one hand and insurgents on the other
  • March 27 : Two people die in a car bomb attack in Beirut
  • April 6 : More than 70 people die in fighting between government soldiers and Shiite rebels in northwestern Yemen , which lasts until April 7
  • April 7th : Several hundred people die in fighting between government soldiers and Maoist rebels in western Nepal
  • April 7th: Three people die and 17 are injured in a bomb explosion in a bazaar in Cairo ( Egypt )
  • April 9 : 15 people were killed in a bomb attack south of Baghdad, Iraq
  • April 14 : More than 20 people were killed in attacks in Kirkuk , Bakuba, Tikrit and Baghdad (Iraq)
  • April 16 : At least 14 people died in attacks in Bakuba and other cities in Iraq
  • April 21 : The bodies of around 50 people are discovered in the Tigris (Iraq), presumably from the town of Madain . Residents discovered 19 other bodies in the city of Haditha ; eight other people died in various attacks in Baghdad
  • April 22nd : A helicopter shot down north of Baghdad in Iraq kills 11 people, including six Americans
  • April 30 : After Faure Gnassingbé's victory in presidential elections in Togo was not recognized by the opposition, over 100 people died in unrest in the past few days
  • April 30th: A person dies in an attack in Cairo, Egypt. Two women shoot at a tourist bus, no dead
  • May 1 : 14 people die in six attacks in Baghdad (Iraq)
  • May 2 : A suicide attack on a funeral procession in Tal Afar (Iraq) kills 25 people and injures around 50
  • May 4 : 60 people die and around 200 are injured in an attack in Erbil (Iraq)
  • May 5 : At least 20 people were killed in various attacks in Iraq
  • May 6 : At least 73 people were killed in several attacks in Baghdad, Tikrit and Suweira
  • May 7th : 17 people were killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad. Almost 300 people have died in attacks in Iraq in the past seven days
  • June 27 : Both pilots die in the crash of a US Army helicopter near Taji / Iraq
  • July 7 : Terrorist attacks in London leave at least 50 dead and 700 injured. The bomb attacks were carried out at underground and bus stations
  • July 12 : A suicide attack in Netanya, Israel, kills three people and injures around 30
  • July 12: A bomb attack on the Lebanese defense minister in Beirut kills two people, injuring himself and several of his companions
  • July 12: 76 people, including 22 children, are killed in an attack by armed attackers on a village in northern Kenya
  • July 13 : A suicide bomber's vehicle explodes in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 26 people, many of them children
  • July 13: At least two people die in a bomb explosion in a mosque in Bakuba, Iraq
  • July 15 : Several suicide attacks in Baghdad kill at least 17 people and injure dozens more. The attacks were mostly targeted at military convoys
  • July 16 : Four people die and 14 are seriously injured in an attack on a tourist bus in the western Turkish resort of Kuşadası
  • July 17 : At least 85 people die and more than 130 are injured in an attack in Musajib (Iraq)
  • July 19 : Ten people died in an attack on a police vehicle in Chechnya
  • July 20 : At least five people die and dozen are injured in an attack on a recruitment office in Baghdad
  • July 23 : At least 88 people die and 110 are injured in an attack on the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh
  • October 1 : At least 22 people die and more than 100 are injured in a suicide attack in Bali
  • October 29 : At least 61 people died and at least 188 were injured in an attack in New Delhi
  • November 9 : Suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman / Jordan kill 57 people

economy

Svinesund Bridge
Last run of a Routemaster in London

science and technology

Graphic: Cassini-Huygens probe at Saturn
The Chinese spaceship Shenzhou 6

Culture and society

in the following June 26th : youth church Kana in Maria-Hilf in Wiesbaden and on July 17th the youth church Crossover in St. Hildegard in Limburg an der Lahn .

music

The Live 8 concert from Berlin

See also: Number one hits 2005 in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , Mexico , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Sweden , the Switzerland , Spain , South Korea , Hungary , the United States and the United Kingdom .

Sports

Alonso in his Renault

Disasters

The year 2005 has been referred to by various organizations as the “year of disasters”.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Born

Died

This is a list of the most important people who passed away in 2005. For a more detailed list see Nekrolog 2005 .

January

Rudolph Moshammer (1940-2005)
Hansjoachim Walther (1939-2005)
Zhao Ziyang (left) and US President Ronald Reagan, 1984

February

Max Schmeling (1905-2005)
Ernst Mayr (1904-2005)
Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 1988

March

Günter Felke (1929-2005)
James Callaghan (1912-2005)

April

John Paul II (1920-2005)
Prince Rainier, 1961
Heinz Kluncker (1925-2005)

May

Ernst Jakob Henne (monument) (1904-2005)

June

Anne Bancroft (1931-2005)

July

Peter Boenisch (1927-2005)
Albert Mangelsdorff (1928-2005)

August

Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz (1923-2005)
Brother Roger (1915-2005)
Ilse Werner , 1961
Robert Moog , 1970s

September

Erich Kuby (1910-2005)
Rupert Riedl (1925-2005)

October

Franky Gee (1962-2005)

November

Eddie Guerrero (1967-2005)

December

Hanns Dieter Hüsch (1925-2005)

Date unknown

Nobel Prizes

Web links

Commons : 2005  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: 2005  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jona - Catholic youth church. In: Evangelical Infoportal Childhood - Youth - Education. Working Group of Protestant Youth in Germany V., accessed December 9, 2018 .
  2. Kana youth church Wiesbaden. In: Evangelical Infoportal Childhood - Youth - Education. Working Group of Protestant Youth in Germany V., accessed December 9, 2018 .
  3. CROSSOVER - Limburg Youth Church. In: Evangelical Infoportal Childhood - Youth - Education. Working Group of Protestant Youth in Germany V., accessed December 4, 2016 .
  4. National Geographic, Planet Earth 2008, Our World in Transition: Numbers, Data, Facts, p. 87.
  5. The year 2005 at Doctors Without Borders : http://www.msf.ch/index.php?id=311&L=1  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.msf.ch
  6. ^ A New Year's Eve sermon: http://dioezesefiles.x4content.com/downloads/silvester_2005_1.pdf (PDF).