1605 in science

The year 1605 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Exploration

*France founds Port Royal (now Port Royal, Nova Scotia) in its North American colony of Acadia.

Chemistry

* The phenomenon of mechanoluminescence is first discovered by Sir Francis Bacon from scratching sugar with a knife.

Technology

* Chartreuse is invented, a liqueur still made by the Carthusian monks, named for the great charterhouse ("la grande Chartreuse").

Births

*Semyon Dezhnev, navigator (died 1673)
*Sir Thomas Browne, physician, encyclopedist (died 1682)

Deaths

*John Davis, explorer (born 1550)