1605.
Detection of the Gunpowder Plot. See "The Gunpowder Plot," x, 310.
Publication of Bacon's Advancement of Learning.
Cervantes' Don Quixote, Part I, published. See "Cervantes' 'Don Quixote' Reforms Literature," x, 325.
Death of the Russian Czar, Boris Godunoff; Fedor, his son, is dethroned; his successor being the first Pseudo-Demetrius. This impostor pretended to be Demetrius, a son of Ivan IV, who was put to death by Boris Godunoff in 1591.
Battle of Bassorah; defeat of the Turks by Abbas the Great, of Persia.
1606.
A patent granted to the London and Plymouth companies for the purpose of American colonization.
Dethronement of the first Pseudo-Demetrius; he is slain; Shinski succeeds as Basil V.
Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese. See "Earliest Positive Discovery of Australia," x, 340.