1612

1612 (MDCXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1612th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 612th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1612, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1612 by topic
Arts and science
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Science
Leaders
  • State leaders
  • Colonial governors
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1612 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1612
MDCXII
Ab urbe condita2365
Armenian calendar1061
ԹՎ ՌԿԱ
Assyrian calendar6362
Balinese saka calendar1533–1534
Bengali calendar1019
Berber calendar2562
English Regnal year9 Ja. 1 – 10 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2156
Burmese calendar974
Byzantine calendar7120–7121
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4308 or 4248
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
4309 or 4249
Coptic calendar1328–1329
Discordian calendar2778
Ethiopian calendar1604–1605
Hebrew calendar5372–5373
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1668–1669
 - Shaka Samvat1533–1534
 - Kali Yuga4712–4713
Holocene calendar11612
Igbo calendar612–613
Iranian calendar990–991
Islamic calendar1020–1021
Japanese calendarKeichō 17
(慶長１７年)
Javanese calendar1532–1533
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3945
Minguo calendar300 before ROC
民前300年
Nanakshahi calendar144
Thai solar calendar2154–2155
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1738 or 1357 or 585
    — to —
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1739 or 1358 or 586
November 30: Battle of Swally

Events

January–June

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 – Battle of Kringen: A Scottish mercenary force is destroyed in Norway.
  • November 29 – Battle of Swally, in which the English fleet beat the Portuguese
  • November 29 – The Treaty of Nasuh Pasha is signed, between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire.
  • November 30 – Battle of Swally: Forces of the English East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, resulting in an English victory.[3]
  • December 15 – Simon Marius is the first to observe the 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 as a planet until 1846, about 234 years later when Johann Gottfried Galle first sights it in the Berlin Observatory.

Date unknown
  • Jamestown: John Rolfe exports the first crop of improved tobacco (seeds from Trinidad).
  • The Nagoya Castle is completed in Japan.
  • The Okamoto Daihachi incident in Japan.
  • 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
Thomas Killigrew
Pier Francesco Mola
Joannes Meyssens
Margherita de' Medici
Frans Post

January–March
  • January 17 – Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (d. 1671)[4]
  • January 21 – Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (d. 1640)
  • January 22 – Daniel Zwicker, German physician (d. 1678)
  • January 23 – George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare, Irish earl (d. 1660)
  • February 1 – William West, English politician (d. 1670)
  • February 2 – Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, English baron and politician (d. 1665)
  • February 4 – Arthur Spry, English politician (d. 1685)
  • February 5 – Crown Prince Sohyeon, Korean crown prince (d. 1645)
  • February 6 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (d. 1694)
  • February 7 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and theatre manager (d. 1683)[5]
  • February 9 – Pier Francesco Mola, Italian painter of the High Baroque (d. 1666)
  • February 15 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French military officer, founder of Montreal in New France (d. 1676)
  • February 20 – Richard Olmsted, Connecticut settler (d. 1687)
  • February 21 – Lorenzo Imperiali, Italian cardinal (d. 1673)
  • February 22 (bapt.) – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
  • March 20 – Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, English-born American Puritan poet (d. 1672)

April–June
  • April 6 – James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond (d. 1655)
  • April 10 – Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1693)
  • April 12 – Simone Cantarini, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1648)
  • April 28 – Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1622 to 1646 (d. 1646)
  • May 6 – François-Joseph Bressani, Italian missionary (d. 1672)
  • May 10 – Francesco Palliola, Italian Servant of God (d. 1648)
  • May 12 – Laurence Womock, English Bishop of St David's (d. 1687)
  • May 17
    • Matthew Babington, English politician (d. 1669)
    • Joannes Meyssens, Flemish painter (d. 1670)
  • May 26 – Raja Wodeyar II, King of Mysore (d. 1638)
  • May 31 – Margherita de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1679)
  • June 1 – Frans Post, Dutch painter (d. 1680)
  • June 23 – André Tacquet, Brabantian mathematician, Jesuit priest (d. 1660)
  • June 25 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
  • June 29 – Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1679)

July–September

October–December

Deaths
Leonard Holliday
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp
John Salusbury

January–March

April–June
  • April 5 – Diana Scultori, Italian engraver
  • April 8 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575)
  • April 11
    • Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)[8]
    • Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. 1580)
  • April 19 – Anne d'Escars de Givry, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1546)
  • April 21 – David van Goorle, theologian and theoretical scientist (b. 1591)
  • May – False Dmitry III, pretender to the Russian throne (secretly executed)[9]
  • May 19 – Gregorio Petrocchini, Italian Cardinal Bishop, Conclave member, Cardinal protector of the Augustines (b. 1535)
  • May 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (b. 1563)
  • May 31 – Willem Isaacsz Swanenburg, Dutch engraver (b. 1580)
  • June 5 – Arima Harunobu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1567)
  • June 8 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
  • June 21 – Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (b. 1561)
  • June 26 – Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, eldest surviving son of John Manners (b. 1576)

July–September

October–December

Date unknown
  • Federico Barocci, Italian painter (b. c. 1535)
  • Isabel Barreto, Spanish admiral (b. 1567)

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