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1612{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1609 1610 1611 - 1612 - 1613 1614 1615 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |} ==Events== * January 20 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor becomes Holy Roman Emperor. *Antonius Magirus's ''Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck'' is published. * Popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops. * Trial of the witches in Pendle, Lancashire is held. * December 28 - Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune (planet) when it was in astronomical conjunction with Jupiter (planet), 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. ==Births== * January 17 - Thomas Fairfax, English general, commander in chief of the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War (d. 1671) * December 4 - Samuel Butler (1612-1680), English satirist (d. 1680) * Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (d. 1694) * Anne Bradstreet, English-born American poet (d. 1672) * Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (d. 1676) * James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (d. 1650) * Saskia van Uylenburg, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642) ==Deaths== * January 20 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552) * May 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and minister (b. 1563) * August 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer * October 7 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (b. 1538) * November 6 - Henry Frederick Stuart (b. 1594) 1612 os:1612 16121610s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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