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
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 (Wood Dragon) 4301 or 4241     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4302 or 4242
Coptic calendar	1321–1322
Discordian calendar	2771
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
Igbo calendar	605–606
Iranian calendar	983–984
Islamic calendar	1013–1014
Japanese calendar	Keichō 10 (慶長１０年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3938
Minguo calendar	307 before ROC 民前307年
Thai solar calendar	2147–2148

1605 (MDCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1605th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 605th year of the 2nd millennium, the 5th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1600s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1605 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 16 – The first part of Miguel de Cervantes' satire on the theme of chivalry, Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), is published in Madrid. One of the first significant novels in the western literary tradition, it becomes a global bestseller almost at once.
• March 11 – A proclamation declares all people of Ireland to be the direct subjects of the British Crown and not of any local lord or chief.
• 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 this 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 Dmitriy and his supporters, including troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, march to Moscow.

July–December

• July 4 – A proclamation commands all Roman Catholic seminary priests and Jesuits to leave Ireland by December 10 and directs the laity to attend Church of Ireland services.
• July 21 – Pretender Dmitriy is officially crowned Tsar Dimitriy Ioannovich of Russia in Moscow by Patriarch Ignatius.
• September 27 – Battle of Kircholm: Swedish armies are decisively defeated by Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cavalry.
• October
  • First publication of Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg (Holy Roman Empire), generally regarded as the world's first newspaper. De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, a Dutch proto-newspaper, is also published this year.
  • Francis Bacon's Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human is published in London.
• 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 to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when, following a tip-off, Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Catholic plotter Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area. 36 barrels of gunpowder are found and Fawkes is arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who are scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.

Date unknown

The Red Hall, Bourne, England, dating from 1605

• Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shogun of Japan, becoming Ogosho. His son Tokugawa Hidetada succeeds him to the office.
• Habitation at Port-Royal established by France under Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, the first European colonization of Nova Scotia in North America (at this time part of Acadia); the Gregorian calendar is adopted.
• Crew of the Olive become the first English visitors to Barbados.
• Refugee French Huguenot merchants begin to 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, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.
• The Irish College in Paris is co-founded by John Lee, an Irish priest, and John de l'Escalopier, President of the Parlement.
• 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 of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
• June 15 – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (d. 1635)
• July 25 – Theodore Haak, German scholar (d. 1690)
• July 29 – Simon Dach, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns (d. 1659)
• August – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and parliamentarian (d. 1675)
• August 8 – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
• August 18 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
• September 12 – William Dugdale, English antiquary (d. 1686)
• September 14 – Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (d. 1675)
• September 28 – Ismaël 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, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (d. 1652)
• November 4 – William Habington, English poet (d. 1654)
• December 23 – Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor of China (d. 1627)
• date unknown
  • William Berkeley, English governor of Virginia (d. 1677)
  • Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
  • Aleksander Dominik Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1648)
  • Alexandra Mavrokordatou, Greek intellectual and salonist (d. 1684)
  • Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman (d. 1680)
  • Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (d. 1689)
• approximate date
  • Semyon Dezhnev, Pomor navigator (d. 1672)
  • John Gauden, English bishop and writer (d. 1662)
  • William Goffe, English parliamentarian and regicide (d. 1679)
  • Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (d. c. 1645)
  • Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, English noble (d. 1666)

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 25 – Naresuan, Siamese King of Ayutthaya kingdom (b. c.1555)
• 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 27 – Akbar, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
• November 8 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
• November 10 – Ulisse 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)