1605 Calendar
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1605 Historical Event(s)
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 On 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)