* 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 )

* 1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint ( d. 1667 )

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 )

Pontus de Tyard ( c. 1521 – September 23, 1605 ) was a French poet and priest, a member of " La Pléiade ".

In 1605, Galileo had been employed as a mathematics tutor for Cosimo de ' Medici.

* 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ( Book One of Don Quixote ) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.

* Don Quixote ( 1605 ) by Miguel de Cervantes

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Pope Leo XI ( 2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605 ), born Alessandro Ottaviano de ' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year.

** Miguel de Benavides, Spanish clergyman and sinologist ( d. 1605 )

Theodore Beza ( Théodore de Bèze or de Besze ) ( June 24, 1519 – October 13, 1605 ) was a French Protestant Christian theologian and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation.

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.

In 1605, Ferdinando succeeded in getting his candidate, Alessandro de ' Medici, elected Pope Leo XI.

Mary's two secretaries, Claude Nau de la Boisseliere ( d. 1605 ) and Gilbert Curle ( d. 1609 ), were likewise taken into custody and interrogated.

Other works published against Arnauld's Moral Theology of the Jesuits included the one written by the Great Jesuit polemist François Pinthereau ( 1605 – 1664 ), under the pseudonym of " the abbé de Boisic ", titled Les Impostures et les ignorances du libelle intitulé: La Théologie Morale des Jésuites ( 1644 ).

In the spring of 1605, under Samuel de Champlain, the new St. Croix settlement was moved to Port Royal ( today's Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia ) then abandoned in 1607.

To check the situation on the ground, Bento de Góis, a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a Lay Brother in Goa, India, traveled in 1603 – 1605 from India via Afghanistan and one of the routes of the traditional Silk Road ( via Badakhshan, the Pamirs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu.

Anne of Denmark, c. 1605, by John de Critz.

The Cocopah were specifically mentioned by name by the expedition of Juan de Oñate in 1605.

Boris Fyodorovich Godunov (, ; c. 1551 – ) was de facto regent of Russia from c. 1585 to 1598 and then the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605.

** Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier ( 1605 – 1627 ), wife of Gaston,

The first European settlement was at Île-Saint-Croix and then Port Royal was founded by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain in 1605.

The first mention of equal temperament related to Twelfth root of two in the West appeared in Simon Stevin's unfinished manuscript Van de Spiegheling der singconst ( ca 1605 ) published posthumously three hundred years later in 1884 ; however, due to insufficient accuracy of his calculation, many of the numbers he obtained were off by one or two units from the correct values.

Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

In 1605, French colonists established the first permanent European settlement in Canada and the first north of Florida at Port Royal, founding what would become known as Acadia.

* June 24 – Theodore Beza, French theologian ( d. 1605 )

* November 25 – Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer ( b. 1605 )

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.

Farther south, the Spanish colony of Spanish Florida, centered on St. Augustine, was established in 1565, while to the north, the French were establishing settlements in what is now Canada ( Charlesbourg-Royal briefly occupied 1541-43 ; Port Royal, established in 1605 ).

Since French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrived in 1605 and established the first permanent Canadian settlements at Port Royal and Quebec City in 1608, the country has produced its own composers, musicians and ensembles.

They were developed in Italy, especially by the Medici Grand-Dukes in Florence, and the first French example was in Paris in 1605.

From that time to the 17th century and especially after the Royal Square ( Place Royale, current place des Vosges ) was designed under King Henri IV in 1605, the Marais was the French nobility's favorite place of residence.

According to tradition, a marshal of artillery to French king Henry IV, François Hannibal d ' Estrées, presented the Carthusian monks at Vauvert, near Paris, with an alchemical manuscript that contained a recipe for an " elixir of long life " in 1605.

Two years after the French founded Annapolis Royal in 1605, the English began their first settlement, at Jamestown, Virginia to the south.

The French explorer Samuel de Champlain found domestically grown plants at Cape Cod in 1605.

* 1605: Samuel de Champlain and the sieur de Poutrincourt found Port Royal, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia ( later to be named Annapolis Royal by the British ), the first permanent French settlement in North America.

* René Menard ( 1605 – 1661 ), French Jesuit missionary explorer in North America

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.

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The South Shore was one of the first areas of North America to be colonized by Europeans following the French settlement at Port-Royal in 1605.

Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d ' Auvergne, duc de Bouillon ( October 22, 1605 – August 9, 1652 ) was prince of the independent principality of Sedan, and general in the French royal army.

He first met the French when they arrived to build the Habitation at Port-Royal in 1605, at which time, according to the French lawyer and author Marc Lescarbot, he said he was over 100 and recalled meeting Jacques Cartier in 1534.