Information about 1612
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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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).
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).
- 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 |
| Bah' calendar | -232 – -231 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2156 |
| Chinese calendar | 4248/4308-7-26 (辛亥年七月廿六日) — to — 4249/4309-7-5(壬子年七月初五日) |
| 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 | 1021 – 1022 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 0 (慶長0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2272 (皇紀2272年) |
| Julian calendar | 1657 |
| Korean calendar | 3945 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2155 |
- 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)
- date unknown - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (died 1650)
- date unknown - Anne Bradstreet, Puritan poet (died 1672)
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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)
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- Ethiopia - Susenyos, Emperor of Ethiopia (1606-1632)
Asia
- China (Ming Dynasty) - Wanli, Emperor of China (1573-1620)
- Dai Viet - Lê Kính Tông, Emperor of Dai Viet (1600-1619)
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1611 colonial governors - Events of 1612 - 1613 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
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