1605 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1605?
- January 13, 1605 – The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
- January 16, 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
- June 20, 1605 – After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
- August 8, 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
- September 27, 1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
- November 5, 1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby’s plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.
- November 8, 1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
Who Were Born In The Year 1605?
- February 6, 1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
- April 8, 1605 – King Philip IV of Spain, (d. 1665)
- April 18, 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
- May 7, 1605 – Patriarch Nikon, 7th patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
- July 29, 1605 – Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
- August 8, 1605 – Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
- August 18, 1605 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
- September 12, 1605 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
- September 28, 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
- October 19, 1605 – Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682)
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