1605

1605 (MDCV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1605th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 605th year of the 2nd millennium, the 5th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1605, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

The Red Hall, Bourne, England, dating from 1605[1]

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1605 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1605
MDCV
Ab urbe condita2358
Armenian calendar1054
ԹՎ ՌԾԴ
Assyrian calendar6355
Balinese saka calendar1526–1527
Bengali calendar1012
Berber calendar2555
English Regnal year2 Ja. 1  3 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2149
Burmese calendar967
Byzantine calendar7113–7114
Chinese calendar甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4301 or 4241
     to 
乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4302 or 4242
Coptic calendar1321–1322
Discordian calendar2771
Ethiopian calendar1597–1598
Hebrew calendar5365–5366
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1661–1662
 - Shaka Samvat1526–1527
 - Kali Yuga4705–4706
Holocene calendar11605
Igbo calendar605–606
Iranian calendar983–984
Islamic calendar1013–1014
Japanese calendarKeichō 10
(慶長10年)
Javanese calendar1525–1526
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3938
Minguo calendar307 before ROC
民前307年
Nanakshahi calendar137
Thai solar calendar2147–2148
Tibetan calendar阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1731 or 1350 or 578
     to 
阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1732 or 1351 or 579

Events

January–June

  • January 16 – The first part of Miguel de Cervantes' satire on the theme of chivalry, Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), is published in Madrid. One of the first significant novels in the western literary tradition, it becomes a global bestseller almost at once.[2]
  • March 11 – A proclamation declares all people of Ireland to be the direct subjects of the British Crown and not of any local lord or chief.[3]
  • April 1Pope Leo XI succeeds Pope Clement VIII, to become the 232nd pope, as a result of the heated Papal conclave of March 1605.[4]
  • April 8 – The city of Oulu (Swedish: Uleåborg) was founded by King Charles IX of Sweden.[5]
  • April 13 – Tsar Boris Godunov 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 16Pope Paul V succeeds Pope Leo XI as the 233rd pope, making this the last Year of Three Popes until 1978. He is elected as a compromise candidate after the Papal conclave of May 1605 leads to physical assault.[6]
  • June 1 – Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother, later executing them.
  • June 20 – Pretender Dmitriy and his supporters, including troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, march to Moscow.[7]

July–December

Date unknown

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shōgun of Japan, becoming Ogosho (retired shōgun). His son Tokugawa Hidetada succeeds him to the office.
  • Habitation at Port-Royal established by France under Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, the first European colonization of Nova Scotia in North America (at this time part of Acadia); the Gregorian calendar is adopted.
  • Crew of the Olive become the first English visitors to Barbados.
  • Refugee French Huguenot merchants begin to settle in Dublin and Waterford.[10]
  • The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.
  • The Irish College in Paris is co-founded by John Lee, an Irish priest, and John de l'Escalopier, President of the Parlement.
  • Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches one million.

Births

Shahryar
Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino
Simon Dach
Tianqi Emperor

January–March

  • January 16 – Shahryar, fifth and youngest son of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (d. 1628)
  • January 17 – Anthony Irby, English politician (d. 1682)
  • February 1 – Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese Sephardic rabbi (d. 1693)
  • February 17 – Luca Ferrari, Italian painter (d. 1654)
  • February 18
    • Juan de Almoguera, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1673–1676) and Bishop of Arequipa (1659–1673) (d. 1676)
    • Abraham Ecchellensis, Lebanese Maronite philosopher (d. 1664)
  • February 20 – Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Lowther, English politician (d. 1675)
  • March 1 – James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley, English politician (d. 1624)
  • March 2 – René Menard, Canadian explorer (d. 1661)
  • March 3 – George Horner, English politician (d. 1677)
  • March 14 – Francis Davies, Welsh bishop (d. 1675)[11]
  • March 17 – George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1626–1661) (d. 1661)

April–June

July–September

  • July 6 – Ulrich II, Count of East Frisia, ruler of East Frisia in the later years of the Thirty Years' War (d. 1648)
  • July 25 – Theodore Haak, German scholar (d. 1690)
  • July 29 – Simon Dach, Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns (d. 1659)
  • August 6
    • Johann Philipp von Schönborn, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1647– (d. 1673)
    • Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (d. 1675)
  • August 8 – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1675)
  • August 18 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
  • August 25 – Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1638)
  • August 30 – Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter (d. 1660)
  • August 31 – Nicolas Talon, French Jesuit (d. 1691)
  • September 1 – Michele Mazzarino, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1648)
  • September 8 – Cornelis Jan Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1669)
  • September 12 – William Dugdale, English antiquary and herald (d. 1686)
  • September 14 – Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (d. 1675)
  • September 17 – Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650)
  • September 24 – Antoine Godeau, French bishop and poet (d. 1672)
  • September 28 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)

October–December

  • October 15 – Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, French princess (d. 1627)
  • October 16 – Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677)
  • October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne, English physician and philosopher (d. 1682)
  • October 22 – Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (d. 1652)
  • November 3 – John Henderson, 5th of Fordell, Scottish noble (d. 1650)
  • November 4 – William Habington, English poet (d. 1654)
  • November 5 – Thomas Shepard, American Puritan minister and a significant figure in early colonial New England (d. 1649)
  • December 1 – Roger Hill, English politician (d. 1667)
  • December 8 – François Vavasseur, French writer (d. 1681)
  • December 16 – Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, English diplomat and landowner (d. 1663)
  • December 23 – Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor of China (d. 1627)
  • December 25 – Francis Godolphin, English politician (d. 1667)

Date unknown

  • William Berkeley, English governor of Virginia (d. 1677)
  • Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
  • Aleksander Dominik Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1648)
  • Alexandra Mavrokordatou, Greek intellectual and salonist (d. 1684)
  • Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman (d. 1680)
  • Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (d. 1689)
  • Constantia Zierenberg, German-Polish singer (d. 1653)
  • Thomas Hastings, American politician (d. 1685)
  • Johann Rudolf Stadler, Swiss clock-maker (d. 16 October 1637)[13]
  • Ayşe Sultan and/or Gevherhan Sultan, Ottoman princesses, daughters of Ahmed I

Approximate date

  • Semyon Dezhnev, Pomor navigator (d. 1672)
  • John Gauden, English bishop and writer (d. 1662)
  • William Goffe, English parliamentarian and regicide (d. 1679)
  • Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (d. c. 1645)
  • Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, English noble (d. 1666)

Deaths

Ulisse Aldrovandi

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • Marek Sobieski, Polish nobleman (b. 1549)

References

  1. Historic England. "The Red Hall (Grade II) (1259132)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
  2. R. M. Flores (1982). Sancho Panza Through Three Hundred Seventy-five Years of Continuations, Imitations, and Criticism, 1605-1980. Juan de la Cuesta. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-936388-06-9.
  3. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  4. Recusant History. Catholic Record Society. 1964. p. 79.
  5. Torilla tavataan! Oulun rikas kulttuuritarjonta hellii matkailijaa, sillä tapahtumia ja festivaaleja on tarjolla läpi vuodenSeura (in Finnish)
  6. Tyler Lansford (July 17, 2009). The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide. JHU Press. p. 513. ISBN 978-0-8018-9149-6.
  7. Political History and Culture of Russia. Nova Science Publishers. 2001. p. 237.
  8. Timeline of History. DK Publishing. 2011. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-7566-8681-9.
  9. Christopher Culpin (1997). Crime and Punishment Through Time: A Study in Development in Crime, Punishment and Protest for SHP and Other GCSE Syllabuses. Collins Educational. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-00-327321-2.
  10. "Huguenot Timeline". Genealogy Forum. Armada, Michigan. January 2006. Archived from the original on January 17, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
  11. Roberts, Stephen K (January 2008). "Davies, Francis (16051675), bishop of Llandaff". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7235. Retrieved September 17, 2008. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. John Landwehr (1971). Splendid Ceremonies; State Entries and Royal Funerals in the Low Countries, 1515-1791: A Bibliography. De Graaf. p. 5. ISBN 978-90-6004-287-8.
  13. Lassner, Martin (July 18, 2011). "Johann Rudolf Stadler". Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS) (in French). Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  14. "Clement VIII | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  15. Robert Auty; Dimitri Obolensky (July 16, 1981). Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History. Cambridge University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-521-28038-9.
  16. "Leo XI | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  17. Trevor Nevitt Dupuy; Curt Johnson; David L. Bongard (1992). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. HarperCollins. p. 829. ISBN 978-0-06-270015-5.
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