1612

For the Russian epic movie, see 

Year 1612 () was a of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - - Popular uprising in  expels Polish troops.
 * - is recognised as tsar by the Cossacks.
 * - marries.
 * / - - galley fleet defeats ns at La Goulette.

July - December

 * - : Forces of the and  engage off the coast of, which the  win.
 * - becomes the first  to observe the   when it was in  with, yet he mistakenly catalogued it as a  because of its extremely slow motion along the . Neptune was not truly discovered until , about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his.

Undated

 * Jamestown: exports first crop of improved tobacco (seeds from ).
 * The are held in,.
 * becomes.
 * is completed.
 * 's English translation of the first half of  is published. It is the first translation of the Spanish novel into any language.

Births

 * -, English Civil War general (died )
 * -, French theologian (died )
 * -, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (died )
 * -, English statesman (died )
 * -, English theologian (died )
 * -, (died )
 * -, Belgian mathematician (died )
 * -, Polish bishop (died )
 * -, Dutch scholar (died )
 * -, Manchu prince (died )
 * -, English satirist (died )
 * - (died )
 * date unknown -, Scottish soldier (died )
 * date unknown -, Puritan poet (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * - (born )
 * -, German mathematician and astronomer (born )
 * -, Flemish historian (born )
 * -, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (born )
 * -, English statesman and spymaster (born )
 * -, German composer (born )
 * -, French scholar and diplomat (born )
 * -, English scholar (born )
 * -, Italian composer (born c. )
 * -, Japanese warlord (born )
 * - Tsar (born )
 * -, Italian poet (born )
 * - (born )
 * -, English writer (born )


 * See also .