1605
| Years: 1602 1603 1604 – 1605 – 1606 1607 1608 | |
| Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s – 1600s – 1610s 1620s 1630s | |
| Centuries: 16th century – 17th century – 18th century 1605 in topic: | |
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 (d. 1665)
- April 18 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
- October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher (d. 1682)
- Simon Dezhnev, Russian navigator (d. 1673)
Deaths
- March 5 – Pope Clement VIII (b. 1536)
- April 13 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (b. 1551)
- April 27 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
- October 13 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
- October 15 – Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar, Mogul Emperor (b. 1542)
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