1605 Totally Explained

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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).

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 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.
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's crowned the next day.

July - December

July 30 - 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 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.

An English colony is founded on Barbados.

French Huguenot refugees settle in Dublin and Waterford.

De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, a Dutch proto-newspaper, is published.

Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches 1 million.

Jahangir starts to rule.

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)

probable

Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
William Goffe, English parliamentarian (d. 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. 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)

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. 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) See also .

Publications

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

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.Further Information

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