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Here are some events that happened in 1605:

  • April 1st - Pope Leo XI becomes the 232nd pope.
  • May 16th - Pope Paul V becomes the 233nd pope.
  • September 27th - the Battle of Kircholm takes place. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth beat the Swedish.
  • October (date unknown) - the first newspaper is published by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg.
  • November 5th - The Gunpowder Plot - a plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament - fails when Guy Fawkes is arrested upon the discovery of himself, and various barrels of gunpowder, by Sir Thomas Knyvet in a cellar beneath the parliament.

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