1712

1712 (MDCCXII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.

1712 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1712 MDCCXII
Ab urbe condita	2465
Armenian calendar	1161 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	6462
Balinese saka calendar	1633–1634
Bengali calendar	1119
Berber calendar	2662
British Regnal year	10 Ann. 1 – 11 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar	2256
Burmese calendar	1074
Byzantine calendar	7220–7221
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4408 or 4348     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4409 or 4349
Coptic calendar	1428–1429
Discordian calendar	2878
Ethiopian calendar	1704–1705
Hebrew calendar	5472–5473
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1768–1769
- Shaka Samvat	1633–1634
- Kali Yuga	4812–4813
Holocene calendar	11712
Igbo calendar	712–713
Iranian calendar	1090–1091
Islamic calendar	1123–1124
Japanese calendar	Shōtoku 2 (正徳２年)
Javanese calendar	1635–1636
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4045
Minguo calendar	200 before ROC 民前200年
Nanakshahi calendar	244
Thai solar calendar	2254–2255
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 1838 or 1457 or 685     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1839 or 1458 or 686

Events

• January 26 – Tuscarora War: More than half of the Native Americans in Colonel John Barnwell's Carolina militia desert during the crossing of the Cape Fear River.
• January 29 – Tuscarora War: Colonel John Barnwell's Carolina militia attack the sprawling Tuscarora farming community of Torhunta by focusing on Fort Narhantes. Many Tuscarora captives are enslaved.