1612

Years:
1609 1610 1611 - 1612 - 1613 1614 1615

Decades:
1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1612 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

**1612 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1612 MDCXII
Ab urbe condita	2365
Armenian calendar	1061 ԹՎ ՌԿԱ
Chinese calendar	4248/4308-11-29 (辛亥年十一月廿九日) — to — 4249/4309-intercalary 11-10 (壬子年閏十一月初十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1604 – 1605
Hebrew calendar	5372 – 5373
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1667 – 1668
- Shaka Samvat	1534 – 1535
- Kali Yuga	4713 – 4714
Iranian calendar	990 – 991
Islamic calendar	1021 – 1022
Thai solar calendar	2155

1612 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

January 20 - 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.