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| Years: 1605 1606 1607 - 1608 - 1609 1610 1611 | |
| Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
Events
- March 18 - Sissinios formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia
- July 3 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat.
- October 2 - Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament
- Swedish troops enter Moscow
- First cheques come to use in Netherlands
- Jesuits take over in Paraguay
Births
- January 28 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (died 1679)
- February 6 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit and writer (died 1697)
- July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1657)
- July 14 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier (died 1657)
- October 15 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
- December 6 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, second son of Sir Thomas Monk (died 1670)
- December 9 - John Milton, English poet (died 1674)
- Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (died 1685)
- John Desborough, English soldier and politician (died 1680)
- Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat (died 1666)
- Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (died 1661)
- Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor (died 1661)
- Gaston, Duke of Orleans, third son of the French king Henry IV (died 1660)
- Edward Rainbowe, English clergyman and a preacher (died 1684)
- Eudoxia Streshneva, second wife of Mikhail I of Russia (died 1645)
- Torii Tadaharu, Japanese nobleman (died 1651)
Deaths
- January 29 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (born 1557)
- February 13 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (born 1526)
- February 26 - John Still, bishop of Bath and Wells (born 1543)
- March 12 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese daimyo (born 1530)
- April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (born 1536)
- May 14 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine, known as the Great (born 1543)
- October 11 - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian renaissance painter
- October 19 - Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician
- October 19 - Martin Delrio, Jesuit theologian (born 1551)
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (born 1545)
- William Barclay, Scottish jurist (born 1546)
- Luca Bati, Italian Baroque composer and music teacher (born 1546)
- William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth
- December - John Dee, British mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
- John Dee, British mathematician (born 1527)
- Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1546)
- Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (born 1551)
- Giambologna, Italian sculptor (born 1529)
- Bess of Hardwick, English jailor of Mary I of Scotland (born 1520)
- Lady Douglas Sheffield, mother of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (born 1545)
- Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
- Fiodor Nikiticz Trubczewski, Polish Prince
- Nikita Kosoj Trubczewski, Polish Prince
- Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (born 1575)
- Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (born 1565)af:1608
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