1605
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
July–December
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
- probable
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)
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