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 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 and orders a search of the area. About 20 barrels of gunpowder were found and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill Parliament and King James I of England 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
BirthsApril 8 - King Philip IV of SpainApril 18 - Giacomo Carissimi Baroque era composerSimon Dezhnev - A Russian Cossack navigator. Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher October 19
Deaths March 5 - Pope Clement VIII April 13 - Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia April 27 - Pope Leo XI October 15 - Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar, Mogul emperor
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