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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 in literature 1612 in science

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 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

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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)

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