1605
Years:
1602 1603 1604 - 1605 - 1606 1607 1608Decades:
1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630sCenturies:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1605 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music
Events
- April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne
- May 16 - Paul V becomes 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 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. About 20 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.
- Polish troops occupy Moscow
- Miguel Cervantes' 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
Births
- April 8 - King Philip IV of Spain (died 1665)
- April 18 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (died 1674)
- July 29 - Simon Dach, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns (died 1659)
- August 8 - Cćcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675)
- August 18 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (died 1660)
- September 12 - William Dugdale, English antiquary (died 1686)
- September 28 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (died 1694)
- October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher (died 1682)
- William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677)
- Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (died 1652)
- Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (died 1638)
- Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor of China (died 1627)
- John Gauden, English bishop and writer (died 1662)
- William Goffe, English parliamentarian (died 1679)
- William Habington, English poet (died 1654)
- Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (died 1680)
- Dominik Aleksander Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (died 1648)
- Hans Christoff von Königsmarck, Swedish-German soldier (died 1663)
- Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist
- Patriarch Nikon, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (died 1681)
- Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman (died 1680)
- Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (died 1635)
- Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (died 1675)
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (died 1689)
- Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675)
- Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (died 1666)
See also @ 1605 births.
Deaths
- February 19 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (born 1550)
- March 5 - Pope Clement VIII (born 1536)
- April 5 - Adam Loftus, English Catholic archbishop
- April 6 - John Stow, English historian and antiquarian (born 1525)
- April 13 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (born 1551)
- April 27 - Pope Leo XI (born 1535)
- September 14 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
- September 23 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet
- September 24 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (born 1547)
- October 13 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (born 1519)
- October 15 - Akbar, Mogul Emperor (born 1542)
- November 8 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (born 1573)
- November 10 - Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (born 1522)
- John Davis, English explorer (born 1550)
- Feodor II of Russia (born 1589)
- Marek Sobieski, Polish nobleman (born 1549)
- Francis Tresham, English conspirator (born 1567)
- Thomas Tresham II, English politician
- Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (born 1542)
See also @ 1605 deaths.