1612
*
January 20 -
Mathias becomes
Holy Roman Emperor.
*
November 4 - Popular uprising in
Moscow expels Polish troops.
* Trial of the
Pendle Witches in
Pendle,
Lancashire is held.
*
November 30 - Forces of the
British East India Company and
Portugal engage in the
Battle of Swally off the coast of
India, which the
British win.
*
December 28 -
Galileo Galilei was 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.
*
January 17 -
Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (died
1671)
*
February 22 -
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (died
1677)
*
February 28 -
John Pearson, English theologian (died
1686)
*
June 16 -
Murad 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)
*
Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (died
1694)
*
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (died
1676)
*
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (died
1650)
See also :Category:1612 births.*
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, Prince of Wales (born
1594)
*
November 12 -
John Harington, English writer (born
1561)
See also :Category:1612 deaths.
