Timeline Sunday 28 May 1905

Events on Sunday 28 May 1905 2

• 1905 Battle of Tsushima Japan annihilates Russia's Baltic Fleet The Imperial Japanese Navy under Admiral Togo Heihachiro destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Tsushima Strait after its seven-month voyage from Europe. Nearly the entire Russian fleet was sunk or captured, while Japan lost only a handful of torpedo boats. The victory confirmed Japan's rise as a modern naval power and forced Russia to seek peace.
• 1905 The Battle of Tsushima A fleet that sailed round the world to be sunk The Russian Baltic Fleet, having sailed eighteen thousand miles round Africa over seven months, meets Admiral Togo in the Tsushima Strait and is annihilated in an afternoon. Russia loses most of its battleships. It is the first time in the modern era that an Asian power has decisively beaten a European empire at sea, and the news reverberates from Persia to India to Turkey. At home it removes the last argument for continuing the war.