1605

This article is about the year 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 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1605 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1605 MDCV
Ab urbe condita	2358
Armenian calendar	1054 ԹՎ ՌԾԴ
Assyrian calendar	6355
Bahá'í calendar	-239–-238
Bengali calendar	1012
Berber calendar	2555
English Regnal year	2 Ja. 1 – 3 Ja. 1
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
- Vikram Samvat	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
Minguo calendar	307 before ROC 民前307年
Thai solar calendar	2148

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

Events

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, making 1605 the last Year of Three Popes until 1978.
• 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).

Date unknown

• Francis Bacon publicizes Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane.
• The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's 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, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.
• Polish troops occupy Moscow.
• 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.
• The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, Saint John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.
• De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, a Dutch proto-newspaper, is published.
• Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches one million.

Births

• 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)
  • Semyon Dezhnyov, Pomor navigator (d. 1672)
  • William Goffe, English parliamentarian (d. 1679)

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., Spanish clergyman and sinologist (b. 1552)
• September 11 – Sir Thomas Tresham, English politician (b. 1550)
• September 14 – Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Kraków (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)