• The Khitans invade northern China, marking the beginning of the end of the great Tang dynasty.
• A uprising led by Khuc Thua Dzu against Chinese rule secures Vietnamese independence, which lasts ten centuries until the French arrive in 1862.
• Ethelwald returns to England with his Danish allies to continue his war against King Edward the Elder, overrunning Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria before being slain by Edward.
• The Abbassids recapture Palestine and Egypt from the Tulunids, ending the Tulunid dynasty of Egypt that had broken away from the Abbassids under Ahmed Ibn Tulun in 868.
• Navarre throws off the yoke of the Moors, becoming a Christian kingdom under Sancho I.
• The last of the great Mayan cities are abandoned (905 is the last date carved into the ball courts at Uxmal).
• The Japanese Emperor orders the publication of the Kokinshu or Kokin Wakashu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems), an anthology of 1,111 poems.
• Persian astronomers at Isfahan discover the Andromeda Galaxy.
• A large comet with a long red tail is sighted in many parts of the world, and widely held to be an omen of doom.

These people were born in 905:

• Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the future Byzantine emeperor Constantine VII

These people died in 905:

• Rahila, fifth ruler of the Chandela people of north central India.

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