Editing 1605 (section)

=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]] – A proclamation commands all [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[seminary]] priests and [[Jesuits]] to leave Ireland by December 10 and directs the laity to attend [[Church of Ireland]] services.<ref name=CIH/>
* [[July 13]] – The [[1605 Guangdong earthquake]], of 7.5 magnitude, strikes [[China]]'s [[Hainan Province]] causing widespread damage and thousands of deaths.
* [[July 21]] – Claiming to be Dmitriy, son of Ivan the Terrible, a pretender is officially crowned [[Tsar]] [[False Dmitriy I|Dimitriy Ioannovich]] of Russia in Moscow by [[Ignatius of Moscow|Patriarch Ignatius]].
* [[August 14]] – A Spanish attack on the Moorish fortress of [[Hammamet, Tunisia|Hammamet]], in [[Ottoman Tunisia]], ends in a disaster for the Spaniards. Although Spanish troops had managed to scale the walls and open the gates, they are suddenly ordered to retreat and are massacred while waiting on the coast for the return of the ships that brought them. 
* [[August 19]] – [[Eighty Years' War]]: The [[Siege of Lingen (1605)|siege of the Dutch city of Lingen]], by 13,000 Spanish troops and 3,000 cavalry, ends with the surrender of Captain Maerten Cobben after nine days of defense. Although the Dutch Republic's stadtholder, [[Maurice, Prince of Orange]], had proclaimed that Lingen must be held at all costs, Dutch troops failed to come to Cobben's aid and Don [[Ambrogio Spinola]] of Spain peacefully takes control of the city.<ref>Olaf Van Nimwegen, ''The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions 1588-1688'' (The Boydell Press, 2010) p. 191</ref>
* [[September 27]] – [[Sweden|Swedish]] armies are decisively defeated by [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] cavalry in the [[Battle of Kircholm]].