1612

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  - 1610s -  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1609 1610 1611 - 1612 - 1613 1614 1615

1612 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1612 (MDCXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1612 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1612

January - June

• January 20 - November 4 - Popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops.
• March 2 - False Dmitry III is recognised as tsar by the Cossacks.
• May 10 - Shah Jahan marries Mumtaz Mahal.
• May 23/25 - Sicilian-Neapolitan galley fleet defeats Tunisians at La Goulette.

July - December

• November 30 - Battle of Swally: Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, which the British win.
• December 28 - Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when it was in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune was not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his telescope.

Undated

• Jamestown: John Rolfe exports first crop of improved tobacco (seeds from Trinidad).
• Trial of the Pendle Witches is held in Pendle, Lancashire.
• Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
• Nagoya Castle is completed.

Births

1612 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1612 MDCXII
Ab urbe condita	2365
Armenian calendar	1061 ԹՎ ՌԿԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-232 – -231
Buddhist calendar	2156
Chinese calendar	4248/4308-11-29 (辛亥年十一月廿九日) — to — 4249/4309-intercalary 11-10 (壬子年閏十一月初十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1604 – 1605
Hebrew calendar	5372 – 5373
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1667 – 1668
- Shaka Samvat	1534 – 1535
- Kali Yuga	4713 – 4714
Holocene calendar	11612
Iranian calendar	990 – 991
Islamic calendar	1020 – 1021
Japanese calendar	Keichō 17 (慶長17年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2272 (皇紀2272年)
- Jōmon Era	11612
Julian calendar	1657
Korean calendar	3945
Thai solar calendar	2155
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• January 17 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (died 1671)
• February 6 - Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (died 1694)
• February 15 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (died 1676)
• February 22 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (died 1677)
• February 28 - John Pearson, English theologian (died 1686)
• June 16 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (died 1640)
• June 23 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (died 1660)
• June 25 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (died 1634)
• August 28 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (died 1653)
• November 17 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (died 1650)
• December 4 - Samuel Butler, English satirist (died 1680)
• December 12 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1670)

Unknown dates

• James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (died 1650)

See also Category:1612 births.

Deaths

• January 20 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1552)
• February 12 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (born 1538)
• April 11 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (born 1535)
• April 11 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (born 1566)
• May 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (born 1563)
• June 8 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (born 1562)
• July 29 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (born 1554)
• August 4 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (born 1549)
• August 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (born c. 1554)
• September 9 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (born 1570)
• September 12 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (born 1552)
• October 7 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (born 1538)
• November 6 - Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (born 1594)
• November 12 - John Harington, English writer (born 1561)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1612 deaths.

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