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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).

    1612
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Events

January 20 - November 4 - Popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops.

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.

Births

January 17 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (died 1671)

February 28 - John Pearson, English theologian (died 1686)

June 23 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (died 1660)

November 17 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (died 1650)

December 4 - Samuel Butler, English satirist (died 1680)

Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (died 1694)

Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (died 1676)

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Deaths

February 12 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (born 1538)

April 11 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (born 1566)

June 8 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (born 1562)

July 29 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (born 1554)

August 4 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (born 1549)

August 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (born c. 1554)

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