1605

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1602 1603 1604 – 1605 – 1606 1607 1608

1605 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1605 (MDCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1605 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Publications

Events of 1605

January–June

• April 1 – Pope Leo XI succeeds Pope Clement VIII as the 232nd pope.
• April 13 – Tsar Boris Godunov dies; Feodor II accedes to the Russian throne.
• April 16 – In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his first wife (of 4), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, Essex.
• May 16 – Pope Paul V succeeds Pope Leo XI as the 233rd pope.
• June 1 – Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother, later executing them.
• June 20 – Pretender Dmitri and his supporters march to Moscow; he is crowned the next month.

July–December

• July 21 – Pretender Dmitri is officially crowned Tsar Dmitri II.
• September 27 – Battle of Kircholm: Swedish armies are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• October – In Strassburg, the world's first newspaper is published by Johann Carolus.
• October 27 – Spanish troops of General Spinola occupy Wachtendonk.
• November 3 – Jahangir begins his 22-year reign of the Mughal Empire.
• November 5 – Gunpowder Plot: A plot by to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area (records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day).

Undated

• Polish troops occupy Moscow.
• The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is published.
• Pope Leo XI is elected, but dies before the year is out.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shogun of Japan, becoming Ogosho. His son Tokugawa Hidetada succeeds him to the office.
• Crew of the Olive become the first British visitors to Barbados.
• French Huguenot refugees settle in Dublin and Waterford.
• De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, a Dutch proto-newspaper, is published.
• Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches 1 million.

Births

1605 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1605 MDCV
Ab urbe condita	2358
Armenian calendar	1054 ԹՎ ՌԾԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-239 – -238
Bengali calendar	1012
Berber calendar	2555
Buddhist calendar	2149
Burmese calendar	967
Byzantine calendar	7113 – 7114
Chinese calendar	甲辰年十一月十二日 (4241/4301-11-12) — to — 乙巳年十一月廿二日 (4242/4302-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1321 – 1322
Ethiopian calendar	1597 – 1598
Hebrew calendar	5365 – 5366
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1661 – 1662
- Shaka Samvat	1527 – 1528
- Kali Yuga	4706 – 4707
Holocene calendar	11605
Iranian calendar	983 – 984
Islamic calendar	1013 – 1014
Japanese calendar	Keichō 10 (慶長10年)
Korean calendar	3938
Thai solar calendar	2148

• April 8 – King Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)
• April 18 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
• May 7 – Patriarch Nikon, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
• June – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (d. 1635)
• July 29 – Simon Dach, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns (d. 1659)
• August – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and parliamentarian (d. 1675)
• August 8 – Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
• August 18 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
• September 12 – William Dugdale, English antiquary (d. 1686)
• September 28 – Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
• October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher (d. 1682)
• October 22 – Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (d. 1652)
• November 4 – William Habington, English poet (d. 1654)
• December 12 – Hans Christoff von Königsmarck, Swedish-German soldier (d. 1663)
• December 23 – Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor of China (d. 1627)
• date unknown
  • William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (d. 1677)
  • John Gauden, English bishop and writer (d. 1662)
  • Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1680)
  • Dominik Aleksander Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1648)
  • Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (d. c. 1645)
  • Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman (d. 1680)
  • Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (d. 1675)
  • Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (d. 1689)
  • Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (d. 1666)
  • Alexandra Mavrokordatou
• probable
  • Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
  • William Goffe, English parliamentarian (d. 1679)

See also Category:1605 births.

Deaths

• February 19 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
• March 5 – Pope Clement VIII (b. 1536)
• April 5 – Adam Loftus, English Catholic archbishop (b. c.1533)
• April 6 – John Stow, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1525)
• April 13 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (b. 1551)
• April 27 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
• June 3 – Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (b. 1542)
• July 20 – Tsar Feodor II of Russia (b. 1589)
• July 26 – Rev. Fr. Miguel de Benavides, O.P. (b. 1552)
• September 11 – Sir Thomas Tresham, English politician (b. 1550)
• September 14 – Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
• September 23 – Pontus de Tyard, French poet (b. c. 1521)
• September 24 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. 1547)
• October 13 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
• October 15 – Akbar, Mogul Emperor (b. 1542)
• November 8 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
• November 10 – Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
• December – Francis Tresham, English conspirator (b. 1567)
• December 29 – John Davis, English explorer (b. 1550)
• date unknown – Marek Sobieski, Polish nobleman (b. 1549)

See also Category:1605 deaths.

Publications

• Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane.
• Miguel de Cervantes, the first part of the landmark novel Don Quixote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" or "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition.