* 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 )

The vast majority of critics think the play was written in 1606 in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot because of possible internal allusions to the 1605 plot and its ensuing trials.

A play related to The Spanish Tragedy called The First Part of Hieronimo ( surviving in a quarto of 1605 ) may be a bad quarto or memorial reconstruction of a play by Kyd, or it may be an inferior writer's burlesque of The Spanish Tragedy inspired by that play's popularity.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

In his Arden edition, R. A. Foakes argues for a date of 1605 – 6, because one of Shakespeare's sources, The True Chronicle History of King Leir, was not published until 1605 ; close correspondences between that play and Shakespeare's suggest that he may have been working from a text ( rather than from recollections of a performance ).

* Timon of Athens a tragedy ( 1605 – 1606 ); stylistic analysis indicates that Middleton may have written this play in collaboration with William Shakespeare.

In the plot of the play " Eastward Hoe ", presented on the London stage in 1605, the villains of the piece attempt to flee to Virginia after accumulating debts in England.

The term probably derives from the Dutch " meesterstuk " ( German: Meisterstück ), and the form " masterstik " is recorded in English in 1579 ( or in Scots, since this was from some Aberdeen guild regulations ), whereas " masterpiece " is first found in 1605, already outside a guild context, in a Ben Jonson play.

" The 1605 quarto was the sole edition of the play during the seventeenth century.

Some commentators have argued that King Leir was printed in 1605 to take advantage of the attention drawn by Shakespeare's similar play — which would mean that Shakespeare's Lear was being acted in 1605.

: First recorded performance: the play was performed at court for King James on 10 February 1605.

: First official record: revels accounts for Christmas 1604 – 1605 state the play was performed over the holidays

: First recorded performance: Revels accounts for Christmas 1604 – 1605 indicate the play was performed at Whitehall on St. Stephen's Day 1604.

Whilst many scholars feel that Shakespeare used the anonymous play The True Chronicle History of King Leir ( entered into the Stationers ' Register on 8 May 1605 ), and hence must have been written between May 1605 and December 1606, others argue that the relationship between the two plays has been inverted, and The True Chronicle History of King Leir was actually written to capitalise on the success of Shakespeare's play, which was probably written in 1603 or 1604.

The editors of the Oxford Shakespeare, having concluded that Middleton and Shakespeare were jointly responsible for the play, assign the play to 1605, on the basis of previous analyses of colloquialism-in-verse and rare vocabulary.

The play is noteworthy for its bitter and caustic nature, similar to the works that Shakespeare was writing in the 1605 – 08 period, King Lear, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens.

The play was published in quarto in 1605 by the stationer Nathaniel Butter, and printed by Thomas Cotes.

Eastward Ho ( 1605 ), written with Jonson and John Marston, contained satirical references to the Scots which landed Chapman and Jonson in jail.

In 1605, he worked with George Chapman and Ben Jonson on Eastward Ho, a satire of popular taste and the vain imaginings of wealth to be found in Virginia.

* Eastward Hoe, by Marston, Chapman, and Jonson ( London: Printed by G. Eld for W. Aspley, 1605 ).

Eastward Hoe or Eastward Ho, is an early Jacobean era stage play, a satire and city comedy written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, printed in 1605.

Eastward Ho was entered into the Stationers ' Register on 4 September 1605 and printed later that year in a quarto issued by the bookseller William Aspley, printed by George Eld.

The Isle is also mentioned in Eastward Hoe ( 1605 ), another play for which Jonson was arrested.

Apparently Jonson and Marston later came to terms and even collaborated with George Chapman on the play Eastward Hoe in 1605.