1612

1612 (MDCXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar.

1612 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1612 MDCXII
Ab urbe condita	2365
Armenian calendar	1061 ԹՎ ՌԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	6362
Balinese saka calendar	1533–1534
Bengali calendar	1019
Berber calendar	2562
English Regnal year	9 Ja. 1 – 10 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2156
Burmese calendar	974
Byzantine calendar	7120–7121
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4308 or 4248     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4309 or 4249
Coptic calendar	1328–1329
Discordian calendar	2778
Ethiopian calendar	1604–1605
Hebrew calendar	5372–5373
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1668–1669
- Shaka Samvat	1533–1534
- Kali Yuga	4712–4713
Holocene calendar	11612
Igbo calendar	612–613
Iranian calendar	990–991
Islamic calendar	1020–1021
Japanese calendar	Keichō 17 (慶長１７年)
Javanese calendar	1532–1533
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3945
Minguo calendar	300 before ROC 民前300年
Nanakshahi calendar	144
Thai solar calendar	2154–2155
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1738 or 1357 or 585     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1739 or 1358 or 586

Events

• Sasaki Kojiro, a famous swordsmen instructor and general, under Tokugawa Ieyasu, was slain in a duel against legendary swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi at Hesagigawa.