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Russo–Japanese War (1904–05) - events| 8–9 February 1904 | Russian Empire, Japan | The Russo-Japanese War starts when the Japanese fleet makes a surprise attack on the Russian squadron at Port Arthur (the Russian treaty port in northeastern China) without a declaration of war, and damages two battleships and a cruiser. | | 21 October 1904 | Russian Empire, United Kingdom | The Russian Baltic fleet, bound for the Far East via the Cape of Good Hope, fires on British trawlers in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea, believing them to be Japanese torpedo boats. One vessel sinks, provoking a wave of indignation in Britain. | | 20 February–9 March 1905 | China, Japan, Russian Empire | The Japanese forces under Field Marshal Iwao Oyama overcome a Russian force under General Alexei Kuropatkin, and capture the city of Mukden (Shenyang), a key point for the control of Manchuria. | | 27–29 May 1905 | Japan, Russian Empire | During the Battle of Tsushima in the Tsushima Strait between Korea and Japan, the Japanese fleet under Vice Admiral Heirachiro Togo sinks two-thirds of the recently-arrived Russian Baltic fleet commanded by Admiral Zinovi Rozhdestvenski. |
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