1605

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Years: 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 - 1605 - 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610

• November 5 - Guy Fawkes tries to blow up the English Parliament as part of the Gunpowder Plot.
• Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote is published.
• Pope Leo XI is elected, but dies before the year is out.
• May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope.

Births

• April 8 - King Philip IV of Spain
• Simon Dezhnev - A Russian Cossack navigator.

Deaths

• October 15 - Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar, Mogul emperor
• Clement VIII, pope.
• Leo XI, pope.