1605 (recordlabel)
Events January–March * January 1 – William Shakespeare's play, ''Viscount Dorchester. * January 7 – Shakespeare's play, ''Henry V (play), Henry V'', copyrighted 1600, is given its earliest recorded performance, presented by the Lord Chamberlain's Men for James VI and I, King James I of England. * January 16 – The first part of Miguel de Cervantes' satire on the theme of chivalry, ''Don Quixote'' (''El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha'', "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), is published in Madrid. One of the first significant novels in the western literary tradition, it becomes a global bestseller almost at once. * January 15 – Shakespeare's play, ''Love's Labour's Lost'', copyrighted 1598, is given its earliest recorded performance, presented at the home of the Earl of Southampton for Queen Anne, wife of King James I of England. * February 3 – An estimated 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan south of the island of Honshu, and t ...
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The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605 From NPG
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ...
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