1605

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1602 1603 1604 – 1605 – 1606 1607 1608

1605 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1605 MDCV
Ab urbe condita	2358
Armenian calendar	1054 ԹՎ ՌԾԴ
Assyrian calendar	6355
Balinese saka calendar	1526–1527
Bengali calendar	1012
Berber calendar	2555
English Regnal year	2 Ja. 1 – 3 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2149
Burmese calendar	967
Byzantine calendar	7113–7114
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4301 or 4241     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4302 or 4242
Coptic calendar	1321–1322
Discordian calendar	2771
Ethiopian calendar	1597–1598
Hebrew calendar	5365–5366
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1661–1662
- Shaka Samvat	1526–1527
- Kali Yuga	4705–4706
Holocene calendar	11605
Igbo calendar	605–606
Iranian calendar	983–984
Islamic calendar	1013–1014
Japanese calendar	Keichō 10 (慶長１０年)
Javanese calendar	1525–1526
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3938
Minguo calendar	307 before ROC 民前307年
Nanakshahi calendar	137
Thai solar calendar	2147–2148
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1731 or 1350 or 578     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1732 or 1351 or 579

1605 (MDCV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1605th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 605th year of the 2nd millennium, the 5th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1605, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• Don Quixote, part 1, is written by Miguel De Cervantes