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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).

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Events of 1605

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Publications

Events of 1605

January - June

★ April 1 - Pope Leo XI succeeds Pope Clement VIII as the 232nd pope.

★ April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the 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. They are later executed.

★ June 20 - Pretender Dmitri and his supporters march to Moscow. He is crowned the next day.

July - December

★ July 30 - Pretender Dmitri is crowned officially tsar Dmitri II.

★ September 27 - Swedish armies defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm

★ October 27 - Spanish troops of General Spinola occupy Wachtendonk

★ 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.

★ English colony founded on Barbados

★ French Huguenot refugees settle in Dublin and Waterford

★ De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, Dutch proto-newspaper

★ In Strassburg, the world's first newspaper is published by Johann Carolus (October).

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''

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★ William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (d. 1677)

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★ John Gauden, English bishop and writer (d. 1662)

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★ Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1680)

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★ Dominik Aleksander Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1648)

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★ Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (d. c1645)

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★ Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman (d. 1680)

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★ Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (d. 1675)

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★ Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (d. 1689)

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★ Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (d. 1666)

★ ''probable''

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★ Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (died 1638)

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★ William Goffe, English parliamentarian (died 1679)
''See also .''

Deaths

★ February 19 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)

★ March 5 - Pope Clement VIII (b. 1536)

★ April 5 - Adam Loftus, English Catholic archbishop (b. c1533)

★ 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)

★ 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. c1521)

★ 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 .''

Publications

★ Francis Bacon, ''Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane''.

★ Miguel de Cervantes, ''Don Quixote''.