1605

Events

• April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne
• May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope
• June 1 - Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother. They are later executed
• June 20 - Pretender Dmitri and his supporters march to Moscow
• July 30 - Pretender Dmitri is crowned tsar Dmitri II
• September 27 - Swedish armies defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm
• 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. About 20 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.
• Polish troops occupy Moscow
• Miguel Cervantes' 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.
• English colony founded on Barbados
• French huguenot refugees settle in Dublin and Waterford
• De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, Dutch proto-newspaper

Births

• April 8 - King Philip IV of Spain (died 1665)
• April 18 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (died 1674)
• July 29 - Simon Dach, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns (died 1659)
• August 8 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (died 1675)
• August 18 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (died 1660)
• September 12 - William Dugdale, English antiquary (died 1686)
• September 28 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (died 1694)
• October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher (died 1682)
• William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677)
• Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (died 1652)
• Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (died 1638)
• Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor of China (died 1627)
• John Gauden, English bishop and writer (died 1662)
• William Goffe, English parliamentarian (died 1679)
• William Habington, English poet (died 1654)
• Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (died 1680)
• Dominik Aleksander Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (died 1648)
• Hans Christoff von Königsmarck, Swedish-German soldier (died 1663)
• Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist
• Patriarch Nikon, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (died 1681)
• Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman (died 1680)
• Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (died 1635)
• Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (died 1675)
• Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (died 1689)
• Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675)
• Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (died 1666)

Deaths

• February 19 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (born 1550)
• March 5 - Pope Clement VIII (born 1536)
• April 5 - Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh and Dublin (born 1533)
• April 6 - John Stow, English historian and antiquarian (born 1525)
• April 13 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (born 1551)
• April 27 - Pope Leo XI (born 1535)
• September 23 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet and priest (born 1521)
• September 24 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer and teacher (born 1547)
• October 13 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (born 1519)
• October 15 - Akbar, Mogul Emperor (born 1542)
• November 8 - Robert Catesby, English leader of the Gunpowder Plot (born 1573)
• November 10 - Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (born 1522)
• John Davis, English explorer (born 1550)
• Feodor II of Russia (born 1589)
• Marek Sobieski, Polish nobleman (born 1549)
• Francis Tresham, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (born 1567)
• Thomas Tresham II, English Catholic politician
• Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (born 1542)