1612

Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s

Years: 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 - 1612 - 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• January 20 - Matthias, King of Bohemia succeeds as 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

• 1612 in literature
• 1612 in science

• Thomas Fairfax, English general, commander in chief of the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War (died 1671)
• Samuel Butler, English satirist (died 1680)
• Anne Bradstreet, English-born American poet (died 1672)
• Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (died 1676)
• Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (died 1694)
• James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (died 1650)

• May 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and minister (born 1563)
• August 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (born c1555)
• November 6 - Henry, Prince of Wales
• John Napier - Scottish mathematician
• Ahmed I - Ottoman emperor.
• Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (born 1538)