Editing 1605 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 27]] – The 3rd [[Mughal Emperor]], [[Akbar]] "the Great", dies of [[dysentery]] at [[Fatehpur Sikri]] in India. 
* [[October 28]] – [[Eighty Years' War]]: [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] troops under [[Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases]], Captain-General of the [[Army of Flanders]] (newly appointed a Knight of the [[Order of the Golden Fleece]]), occupy [[Wachtendonk]] after a 20-day siege.
* [[October]]
** The first issue of ''[[Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien]]'' by [[Johann Carolus]] in [[Strasbourg]] ([[Holy Roman Empire]]), generally regarded as the world's first [[newspaper]], is published.<ref>{{cite book|title=Timeline of History|year=2011|publisher=DK Publishing|isbn=978-0-7566-8681-9|page=203}}</ref> ''De Nieuwe Tijdinghen'', a Dutch proto-newspaper, is also published this year.
** [[Francis Bacon]]'s ''[[The Advancement of Learning|Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human]]'' is published in London.
* [[November 3]] – [[Jahangir]], the fourth Mughal Emperor, begins his 22-year reign over the [[Mughal Empire]] in northern India.
* [[November 5]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) – The [[Gunpowder Plot]], a scheme to bomb England's [[Palace of Westminster]] during the opening of Parliament, is foiled after Sir [[Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet|Thomas Knyvet]] is tipped off, and finds Catholic plotter [[Guy Fawkes]] in a cellar below the Parliament building. Knyvet orders a search of the area and 36 barrels of [[gunpowder]] are found. Fawkes is arrested for trying to assassinate [[James I of England|King James I]] and the members who had been scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Culpin|title=Crime and Punishment Through Time: A Study in Development in Crime, Punishment and Protest for SHP and Other GCSE Syllabuses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PvNWAAAAYAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Collins Educational|isbn=978-0-00-327321-2|pages=45|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – The Iranian Safavid ruler [[Abbas the Great]] leads the Persian troops to a victory over a larger force of Ottoman Empire troops in the [[Battle of Sufiyan]], and captures [[Tabriz]].<ref>''Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend'' (I.B. Tauris & Co., 2009) p. 81</ref>  
* [[December 6]] – In England, [[Thomas Bonham (physician)|Thomas Bonham]] petitions to become a member of the College of Physicians in order for his practice to be legal, and is rejected. Dr. Bonham continues to practice, and is eventually imprisoned on November 13, 1606, leading to the landmark decision in ''[[Dr. Bonham's Case]]'' in 1610.
* [[December 11]] – [[Sigismund III Vasa|King Sigismund III]] of [[Poland]] marries his former sister-in-law, [[Constance of Austria|Constance]], daughter of [[Charles II, Archduke of Austria]], after [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]] refuses to permit the King to marry [[Anna of Tyrol]]. King Sigismund, a widow, had previously been married to Constance's older sister, [[Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland|Anne]].
* [[December 21]] – On behalf of Spain, Portuguese navigator [[Pedro Fernandes de Queirós]] begins his expedition to the South Pacific Ocean with 160 men on three ships. Queiros departs from [[Callao]] in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]] with his flagship, ''San Pedro y San Pablo'', and ''San Pedro'' and ''Los Tres Reyes''.