Question: Is there anything that happened in 1612 thats extreamly important? I need to know for a collection of data I am collecting.

Answer: January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. \nAntonius Magirus's Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck is published. \n\n4 November - Popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops. Trial of the Pendle Witches in Pendle, Lancashire is held. \n\nNovember 30 - Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage in the Battle of Swally off the coast of India, which the British win. \n\nDecember 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.
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