* 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.

* 1605 – Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician ( d. 1675 )

* Alexander II of Kakheti ( 1574 – 1605 ), King of Kakheti

* 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer ( d. 1674 )

* 1605 – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1669 )

* 1605 – Pope Leo XI ( b. 1535 )

* Alexandra Mavrokordatou ( 1605 – 1684 ), Greek intellectual

Ramshah Virsingh Dev ( 1605 – 1626 ) |

Ulisse Aldrovandi ( 1522 – 1605 ) was considered the " father of natural history ", which included the study of plants.

Under Pope Paul V ( reigned 1605 – 1621 ), a major conflict arose between Venice and the Papacy.

) ( 2006 ) Don Quijote Across Four Centuries: 1605 – 2005.

# Federico Ubaldo della Rovere ( 1605 – 1623 )-title became extinct with his death

* 1550 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer ( baptism ) ( d. 1605 )

* 1605 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer ( b. 1550 )

Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta ( 1526 / 1535 – 1605 / 1620 ) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

During the Polish – Muscovite War ( 1605 – 1618 ), Polish – Lithuanian forces reached Moscow and installed the impostor False Dmitriy I in 1605, then supported False Dmitry II in 1607.

* John Young ( bishop ) ( c. 1532 – 1605 ), English academic and Anglican bishop of Rochester

* 1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian ( d. 1605 )

* Saint Bernard of Corleone ( 1605 – 1667 )

From 1605 to 1622 the house was owned by Bernard Walter of Walthersweil and, from 1622 to 1624, by the Schranz of Schranzenegg family, who sold it to Siegmund Friedrich, Count Trautmannsdorff.

Bernard Frénicle de Bessy ( c. 1605 – 1675 ), was a French mathematician born in Paris, who wrote numerous mathematical papers, mainly in number theory and combinatorics.

The first wedding ceremony, performed in November 1605 by bishop of Kraków cardinal Bernard Maciejowski was held per procura in Kraków, at the still-famous Montelupi complex ( Pod Jaszczurami and Firlejowska ), and was attended by the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa himself, as well as hundreds of high ranking szlachta members and foreign guests.

Several assassination attempts were made on James, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famously, on 5 November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, by a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Sir Robert Catesby, which caused more antipathy in England towards the Catholic faith.

The Medici produced four Popes of the Catholic Church — Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 1521 ), Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 1534 ), Pope Pius IV ( 1559 – 1565 ), and Pope Leo XI ( 1605 ); two regent queens of France — Catherine de ' Medici ( 1547 – 1559 ) and Marie de ' Medici ( 1600 – 1610 ); and, in 1531, the family became hereditary Dukes of Florence.

A contemporary account which sheds light on the circulation of the music between Catholic country houses, refers to the arrest of a French Jesuit named De Noiriche, who was followed from an unidentified country house by spies, apprehended, searched and found to be carrying a copy of the 1605 set.

In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries, bonfires are lit on Guy Fawkes Night a yearly celebration held on the evening of 5 November to mark the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to destroy the House of Lords in London.

Following King Sigismund III's Prussian regency contract ( 1605 ) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg and his Treaty of Warsaw, 1611, with John Sigismund of Brandenburg, confirming the Brandenburgian co-enfeoffment, these two regents guaranteed free practice of Catholic religion in prevailingly Lutheran Prussia.

Part of the intent of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was to kidnap the nine-year-old Elizabeth and put her onto the throne of England ( and, presumably, Ireland and Scotland ) as a Catholic monarch, after assassinating her father and the Protestant English aristocracy.

In 1605, Hall travelled abroad for the first time when he accompanied Sir Edmund Bacon on an embassy to Spa, with the special aim, he says, of acquainting himself with the state and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.

His crowning achievement was the great victory near the Dvina River in the Battle of Kircholm ( modern Salaspils, Latvia ) on September 27, 1605, when with barely 4000 troops, mostly the famous heavy hussars, he annihilated a threefold larger Swedish army ; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the Pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.

His principal work, Wahres Christentum ( book 1: 1605 ; books 1-4: 1606-1610 ) i. e. " True Christianity ", which has been translated into most European languages, has served as the foundation of many books of devotion, both Roman Catholic and Protestant.

On the night of 4 – 5 November 1605, the eve of the state opening of the second session of James's first English Parliament, Catholic Guy Fawkes was discovered in the cellars of the parliament buildings.

Piła was particularly affected when the widowed Sigismund III Vasa married the pious 17-year old Catholic princess Constance of Austria, Austrian archduchess from the House of Habsburg, in 1605.

1605 due to the counter-reformation Oberursel becomes Catholic again.

Following King Sigismund III's contract on regency in Ducal Prussia ( 1605 ) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg, and his Treaty of Warsaw ( 1611 ) with John Sigismund of Brandenburg, confirming the co-enfeoffment of the Berlin Hohenzollern with Ducal Prussia, these two rulers guaranteed free practice of Catholic religion in all of prevailingly Lutheran Ducal Prussia.

The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the state opening of Parliament on November 5, 1605 and install James ’ Catholic daughter Elizabeth as monarch.

Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic head of state., again in Boston, a local minister wrote " a Great number of people went over to Dorchester neck where at night they made a Great Bonfire and plaid off many fireworks ", although the day ended in tragedy when " 4 young men coming home in a Canoe were all Drowned.

Sir Ambrose Rookwood ( c. 1578 – 31 January 1606 ) was a member of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I with a Catholic monarch.

Sir Thomas Tresham ( 1534-11 September 1605 ) was a Catholic recusant politician at the end of the Tudor dynasty and the start of the Stuart dynasty in England.

In 1605 Martha and her daughter were living on an annuity funded by the Catholic William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle.

Under James I, Catholics were barred from all public office after the gunpowder plot was discovered in 1605 ; the Gaelic Irish and Old English increasingly defined themselves as Catholic in opposition to the Protestant New English.

On the evening of 26 October 1605, the Catholic Lord Monteagle received an anonymous letter warning him to stay away from Parliament during the opening, and to " retyre youre self into yowre contee whence yow maye expect the event in safti for ... they shall receyve a terrible blowe this parleament ".

Despite the fact that Lord Southampton's brother-in-law the Catholic Sir Thomas Howard, Baron Arundell and Sir Ferdinando Gorges had funded the spring 1605 expedition to Allen's Island ( in modern day Newfoundland ), designed to establish a colony for British Catholicism, there is absolutely no way that Wingfield or indeed Hunt, ( described by Wingfield as " a man not in any way to be touched with the rebellious humours of a popish spirit, nor blemished with the least suspicion of a factious schismatic, whereof I had a special care " ), could have had Catholic or Non-conformist leanings, the more so in the wake of the previous year's Catholic Gunpowder Plot.