2005

2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It has the same calendar as 1661, ... 1814, 1825, 1831, 1842, ... 1870, ... 1898, 1910, ... 1938, 1949, ... 1966, ... 1983, 1994, 2011, 2022, ... 2095, ....

It corresponds to the years 5765-5766 in the Hebrew Calendar and 1425-1426 in the Islamic Calendar.

2005 is the World Year of Physics, the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, and the International Year of the Eucharist in Catholicism.

January

 * 14 January - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of Saturn.

February

 * 16 February - The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia.

April

 * 2 April - Pope John Paul II dies, causing widespread grief in the world.
 * 9 April - The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place, after being briefly postponed after the Pope's death. Camilla assumes the titles Her Royal Highness and The Duchess of Cornwall.
 * 19 April - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.

July

 * 16 July - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book of the Harry Potter saga by the British writer J. K. Rowling, is released.

August

 * 12 August - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.

September

 * 1 September - Oil prices rise sharply following economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
 * 14 September - September 16 - Largest UN World Summit in history, held in New York City.
 * 17 September - Helen Clark leader of the Labour Party is re-elected for a third term in the New Zealand general election

October

 * 13 October - Veselin Topalov wins the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005
 * 21 October - 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, celebrations held around the United Kingdom and in Nelson.

November

 * 28 November - The United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Montreal, Quebec. The conference lasted until December 9, and featured a speech by former President Bill Clinton that the George W. Bush Administration objected to.

December

 * 18 December - The World Trade Organization 6th ministerial conference concludes in Hong Kong with a limited trade deal being ratified

December

 * 31 December - The first leap second since 1998.

Deaths
Main article: Deaths in 2005

April

 * 2 April - Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
 * 23 April - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)

August

 * 13 August - David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)

November

 * 5 November - Rod Donald, New Zealand politician (b. 1957)