1612 (MDCXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1612th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 612th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1612, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
November 30: Battle of Swally
1612 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1612
MDCXII
Ab urbe condita2365
Armenian calendar1061
ԹՎ ՌԿԱ
Assyrian calendar6362
Balinese saka calendar1533–1534
Bengali calendar1019
Berber calendar2562
English Regnal yearJa. 1 – 10 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2156
Burmese calendar974
Byzantine calendar7120–7121
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4309 or 4102
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
4310 or 4103
Coptic calendar1328–1329
Discordian calendar2778
Ethiopian calendar1604–1605
Hebrew calendar5372–5373
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1668–1669
 - Shaka Samvat1533–1534
 - Kali Yuga4712–4713
Holocene calendar11612
Igbo calendar612–613
Iranian calendar990–991
Islamic calendar1020–1021
Japanese calendarKeichō 17
(慶長17年)
Javanese calendar1532–1533
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3945
Minguo calendar300 before ROC
民前300年
Nanakshahi calendar144
Thai solar calendar2154–2155
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1738 or 1357 or 585
    — to —
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1739 or 1358 or 586

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Births

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Thomas Killigrew
 
Pier Francesco Mola
 
Joannes Meyssens
 
Margherita de' Medici
 
Frans Post

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Deaths

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Leonard Holliday
 
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
 
Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
 
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg
 
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp
 
John Salusbury

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References

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