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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 |
For Russian epic movie, see 1612 (film).
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).
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Events of 1612
January - June
- January 20 - November 4 - A popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops.
- March 2 - False Dmitry III is recognised as tsar by the Cossacks.
- April 11 - Edward Wightman, a Baptist, was the last person to be executed for heresy in England by burning at the stake at Lichfield.
- May 10 - Shah Jahan marries Mumtaz Mahal.
- May 23-25 - A Sicilian-Neapolitan galley fleet defeats the Tunisians at La Goulette.
July - December
- July 22 - Northamptonshire Witch Trials: Four women and one man hanged at Abingdon Gallows, Northampton, England.
- November 30 - Battle of Swally: Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, resulting in a British win.
- December 28 - Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune is not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sights it with his telescope.
Undated
- Jamestown: John Rolfe exports first crop of improved tobacco (seeds from Trinidad).
- The Pendle witch trials are held in Pendle, Lancashire.
- Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
- Nagoya Castle is completed.
- Thomas Shelton's English translation of the first half of Don Quixote is published. It is the first translation of the Spanish novel into any language.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1612 MDCXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2365 |
| Armenian calendar | 1061 ԹՎ ՌԿԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -232 – -231 |
| Berber calendar | 2562 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2156 |
| Burmese calendar | 974 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7120 – 7121 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年十一月廿九日 (4248/4308-11-29) — to —
壬子年閏十一月初十日(4249/4309-intercalary 11-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 1328 – 1329 |
| 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) |
| Korean calendar | 3945 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2155 |
- January 17 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (d. 1671)
- February 6 - Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (d. 1694)
- February 15 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (d. 1676)
- February 22 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
- February 28 - John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
- June 16 - Murat IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
- June 23 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
- June 25 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
- August 28 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (died 1653)
- November 17 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
- December 4 - Samuel Butler, English satirist (d. 1680)
- December 12 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1670)
- date unknown - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (d. 1650)
- date unknown - Anne Bradstreet, Puritan poet (d. 1672)
- See also Category:1612 births.
Deaths
- January 20 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
- February 12 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538)
- April 11 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
- April 11 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. 1566)
- May 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (b. 1563)
- June 8 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
- July 29 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
- August 4 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
- August 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (b. c. 1554)
- September 9 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
- September 12 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
- October 7 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (b. 1538)
- November 6 - Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594)
- November 12 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
- See also Category: 1612 deaths.
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