January 16 » 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.
August 8 » The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
September 27 » The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
November 5 » Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
November 8 » Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1713 » David Hollatz, Polish pastor and theologian (b. 1648)
Names that were popular for boys in 1605
Jan
Cornelis
Pieter
Willem
Joannes
Jacob
Jean
Gerrit
Adriaen
Leendert
William
Petrus
John
Thomas
Johan
Names that were popular for girls in 1605
Maria
Anna
Catharina
Elisabeth
Neeltje
Marie
Jeanne
Anne
Elizabeth
Mary
Barbara
Joanna
Margaretha
Lijsbeth
Cornelia
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