1612

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).

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

• 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 - Mudak 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)

See also Category:1612 births.

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)

See also Category: 1612 deaths.

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