Unix Timestamp: -11491632000
Saturday, November 5. 1605, 12:00:00 AM UTC

French Huguenot refugees settle in Dublin and Waterford.

Francis Bacon publicizes "Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane".

The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel "Don Quixote" ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" or The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha) mdash one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.

Gunpowder Plot: A plot by to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area (records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day).

Crew of the "Olive" become the first British visitors to Barbados.

Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shogun of Japan, becoming Ogosho. His son Tokugawa Hidetada succeeds him to the office.

Polish troops occupy Moscow.

Nova Scotia, Canada adopts Gregorian calendar.

The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, Saint John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.

"De Nieuwe Tijdinghen", a Dutch proto-newspaper, is published.

Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches one million.