1612
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This article is about the year 1612. For the Russian film, see 1612 (film).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1612 MDCXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2365 |
| Armenian calendar | 1061 ԹՎ ՌԿԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6362 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -232–-231 |
| Bengali calendar | 1019 |
| Berber calendar | 2562 |
| English Regnal year | 9 Ja. 1 – 10 Ja. 1 |
| 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 | 1668–1669 |
| - 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 300 before ROC 民前300年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2155 |
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Year 1612 (MDCXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- January 6 – Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
- January 20 – Matthias becomes Holy Roman Emperor upon the death of Rudolf II.[1]
- January 20–November 4 – An uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops.
- March 2 – False Dmitry III is recognised as tsar by the Cossacks.
- April 11 – Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist, is the last person to be executed for heresy in England, by burning at the stake in Lichfield.[1]
- May 10 – Shah Jahan marries Mumtaz Mahal.
- May 23–May 25 – A Sicilian–Neapolitan galley fleet defeats the Tunisians at La Goulette.
- June 13 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor formally elected.[1]
[edit] July–December
- July 22 – Four women and one man are hanged following the Northamptonshire Witch Trials in Northampton, England.
- August 20 – Ten 'Pendle witches' are hanged having been found guilty of practising witchcraft in Lancashire, England.
- August 26 – A Scottish mercenary force is destroyed in Norway at the Battle of Kringen.
- November 29–Treaty of Nasuh Pasha: Signed between Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire
- November 30 – Battle of Swally: Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, resulting in a British victory.
- 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.
[edit] Date unknown
- Jamestown: John Rolfe exports first crop of improved tobacco (seeds from Trinidad).
- 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.
[edit] Births
- 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)
- Anne Bradstreet, Puritan poet (d. 1672)
[edit] 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)
- date unknown
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 244. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
