1612

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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

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 3 Deaths 4 References

Events of 1612

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 – 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.
• June 13 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor formally elected.^[1]

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 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.

Undated

• Jamestown: John Rolfe exports first crop of improved tobacco (seeds from Trinidad).
• The Pendle witch trials are held in Pendle, Lancashire.
• 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

1612 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1612 MDCXII
Ab urbe condita	2365
Armenian calendar	1061 ԹՎ ՌԿԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-232 – -231
Bengali calendar	1019
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
- Bikram Samwat	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
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)

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)

References