1605

Year 1605 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - succeeds  as the 232nd.
 * - Tsar dies -  accedes to the throne.
 * - In, , later governor of the future , marries his first wife (of 4), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of.
 * -  succeeds  as the 233rd.
 * - Russian troops in imprison  and his mother. They are later executed.
 * - Pretender and his supporters march to . He is crowned the next day.

July - December

 * - Pretender Dmitri is crowned officially.
 * - Swedish armies defeated by the in the
 * - troops of General Spinola occupy
 * - : A plot by to blow up the English is foiled when Sir, a justice of the peace, finds  in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area. Records show 36 barrels of  were found and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King  and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.

Undated

 * Polish troops occupy
 * The first half of 's  is published.
 * is elected, but dies before the year is out.
 * abdicates as of, becoming . His son  succeeds him to the office.
 * English colony founded on
 * French refugees settle in  and
 * , Dutch proto-newspaper
 * In, the world's first newspaper is published by (October).

Births

 * - King (d. )
 * -, Italian composer (d. )
 * -, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. )
 * June -, English poet and dramatist (d. )
 * -, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns (d. )
 * August -, English lawyer and parliamentarian (d. )
 * -, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. )
 * -, English churchman (d. )
 * -, English antiquary (d. )
 * -, French astronomer (d. )
 * - Sir English physician and philosopher (d. )
 * -, prince of the independent principality of (d. )
 * -, English poet (d. )
 * -, Swedish-German soldier (d. )
 * -, Ming emperor of China (d. )
 * date unknown
 * , governor of Virginia (d. )
 * , English bishop and writer (d. )
 * , Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. )
 * , Polish nobleman (d. )
 * , English dramatist (d. c)
 * , Russian statesman (d. )
 * , Icelandic bishop and scholar (d. )
 * , French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (d. )
 * (d. )
 * probable
 * , Flemish painter (died )
 * , English parliamentarian (died )

See also .

Deaths

 * -, Italian composer (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, English Catholic archbishop (b. c)
 * -, English historian and antiquarian (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, Polish nobleman (b. )
 * - Tsar (b. )
 * -, English politician (b. )
 * -, Archbishop of Krakow (b. )
 * -, French poet (b. c)
 * -, Portuguese composer (b. )
 * -, French theologian (b. )
 * -, Mogul Emperor (b. )
 * -, English conspirator (b. )
 * -, Italian naturalist (b. )
 * December -, English conspirator (b. )
 * -, English explorer (b. )
 * date unknown -, Polish nobleman (b. )

See also .

Publications

 * , Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane.