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 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 612–613 |
| Iranian calendar | 990–991 |
| Islamic calendar | 1020–1021 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 17 (慶長17年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| 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.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- 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]
July–December [edit]
- 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 15 – Simon Marius, is first to observe Andromeda Galaxy through a telescope.
- 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.
Date unknown [edit]
- 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.
Births [edit]
- 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 23 – André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
- June 25 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
- July 27 – Murat IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
- 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)
Deaths [edit]
- 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
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 244. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
