in 1884. August 30 – A solar eclipse takes place, with greatest visibility in North Africa. September September 1 – The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories. September 2 – The millennia-old imperial examination system for the civil service is abolished in Qing dynasty China. September 5 – Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth – In New Hampshire, a treaty mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is signed by Japan and Russia. Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin together with port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan. September 8 – The 7.2 Calabria earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people. September 10 – Crystal Palace F.C. is founded in London. September 27 Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", in which he puts forward the idea of mass–energy equivalence by publishing the famous equation E = mc2 (published November 21). Ta-Ching Government Bank, predecessor of Bank of China, is founded in Peiping. October October 1 A Czech worker, František Pavlík (b. 1885), is bayoneted to death during a demonstration for a Czech university in Brno. This event is the motivation for a piano sonata, 1. X. 1905, by composer Leoš Janáček, which premières on 27 January 1906. Turkish Association football team Galatasaray is founded in Istanbul. October 2 – is laid down in the United Kingdom, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race. October 5 – The Wright brothers' third aeroplane (Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting, the first aeroplane flight lasting over half an hour. October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City. October 13 – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party (UK) rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign. October 14 – The National League's New York Giants win baseball's World Series, beating the American League's Philadelphia Athletics, 2-0, in Game 5. October 16 – The Partition of Bengal is made by Lord Curzon to separate the region of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu territories until its reunification in 1911. October 26 – Sweden–Norway agrees to the repeal of