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Everything about 1612 totally explainedYear 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
July - December
November 30 - Battle of Swally: Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, resulting in a British win.
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 isn't 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.
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 (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)
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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)
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