1605 - What happened in 1605 ?
January 1605
Thursday 13:
The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
Sunday 16:
The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid.
May 1605
Monday 16:
Paul V becomes Pope.
» May 1605
August 1605
Monday 08:
The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
September 1605
Tuesday 27:
The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm
November 1605
Saturday 05:
Gunpowder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building
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