1612 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1612?
- April 13, 1612 – Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
- August 19, 1612 – The “Samlesbury witches”, three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.
- November 1, 1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
- December 28, 1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
Who Were Born In The Year 1612?
- January 17, 1612 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671)
- February 6, 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694)
- February 7, 1612 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (d. 1683)
- February 8, 1612 – Samuel Butler, English poet (d. 1680)
- February 22, 1612 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
- February 28, 1612 – John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
- June 16, 1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
- June 23, 1612 – André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (d. 1660)
- June 25, 1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
- August 2, 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
- August 28, 1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
- November 17, 1612 – Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
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