However, when Henry died of suspected typhoid ( or possibly porphyria ) at the age of 18 in 1612, two weeks before Charles's 12th birthday, Charles became heir apparent.

In 1612, he became legal adviser to the Augsburg city council.

This work provided a simple presentation of rhetoric that emphasized the treatment of style, and became so popular that it was mentioned in John Brinsley's ( 1612 ) Ludus literarius ; or The Grammar Schoole as being the " most used in the best schooles.

He became Professor of Theological Controversies at Trinity College and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1607, Doctor of Divinity in 1612, and then Vice-Chancellor in 1615 and vice-provost in 1616.

Antoine Arnauld ( 1612 – 1694 ), who became the leader of the Jansenists following Saint-Cyran's death in 1643.

In 1612 John Cotton became the Vicar of St Botolph's and, although viewed askance by the Church of England for his non-conformist preaching, became responsible for a large increase in Church attendance.

West of James County, it was named for Prince Charles, second son of King James I of England, who became the Prince of Wales and heir apparent after the death of his older brother Henry in 1612.

The Recollect friars, founded in 1588 as a reform movement of the Augustinian friars in Spain, became autonomous in 1612 with their first Prior General, Enrique de la Sagrada.

George Hall, the third son ( 1612 – 1668 ), became bishop of Chester.

When his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, died in 1612, Charles became heir.

* Edward Wightman ( 1566 – 1612 ), a General Baptist, became the last religious martyr to be burnt at the stake for ‘ Heresy ’ in England

In 1609, he was part of a group of actors who set up a new playing company, the Duke of York's Men, which became known as Prince Charles's Men after 1612.

* James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose ( 1612 – 1650 ) became Marquess of Montrose in 1644

Though betrothed to Shah Jahan in 1607, she ultimately became his third wife, in 1612, and was his favorite.

The medicinal value and the bottling of Malvern water are mentioned " in a poem attributed to the Reverend Edmund Rea, who became Vicar of Great Malvern in 1612 ".

This became John Gerard's ( 1545 – 1612 ) Herball or General Hiftorie of Plantes.

He travelled to Spain in 1612 and became attorney of the council of the Indies.

He was admitted a Jesuit in 1612, and afterwards sent on mission work to Chile and Peru, where he became rector of the college of Cuenca.

In 1599, he became preacher in Schiedam where he died late in 1612.

Lambart inaugurated a weekly market in the town in 1606, and Kilbeggan became a borough town by charter of James I in 1612.

In 1612 he became pastor and professor at Montauban.

Hugh Green, who became Chideock's chaplain in 1612, was one of the many Catholic martyrs in the events leading up to the civil war ; he was executed in 1642, after conviction.

In 1612 he became public lecturer on Greek to the university.

A number of extant princely families are patrilineally descended from Rurik, although the last Rurikid to rule Russia, Vasily IV, died in 1612.

* Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar of Spain ( 1578 – 1630 ), nobleman and Viceroy of New Spain and Peru, in office 1612 – 1621 ( New Spain ), 1622 – 1629 ( Peru )

The disturbed political condition of England interfered with the latter project, and so in 1642 he returned to Sweden to work with Queen Christina ( reigned 1632 – 1654 ) and the chancellor Axel Oxenstierna ( in office 1612 – 1654 ) on the task of reorganizing the Swedish schools.

This work was believed to have been commissioned in 1612 by the Junior King or Regent of Johor, The Yang di-Pertuan Di Hilir Raja Abdullah ( Raja Bongsu ), later, by the office title, HRH Sultan Abdullah Mu ' ayat Syah ibni Sultan Abdul Jalil Syah ).

In 1612 Samuel de Champlain convinced Charles to obtain the office of Lieutenant-General from King Louis XIII, which he did.

In 1612 John Smyth wrote, " the magistrate is not by virtue of his office to meddle with religion, or matters of conscience ".

Owen Gwyn, Master of St John's College, Cambridge from 1612 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1615-16, was instituted Rector 28 October 1611, remaining in office until his death in 1633.

The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).

* 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dutch model, wife of Rembrandt ( d. 1642 )

* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.

Georgia and Azerbaijan were ceded to Persia by the treaty of Nasuh Pasha in 1612.

* 1612 – Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.

In his youth he went to the continent and taught mathematics in Paris, where he published or edited, between the years 1612 and 1619, various geometric and algebraic tracts.

* 1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar ( d. 1653 )

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Raphael Holinshed calls her Voadicia, while Edmund Spenser calls her " Bunduca ", a version of the name that was used in the popular Jacobean play Bonduca, in 1612.

The constellation was introduced in 1612 ( or 1613 ) by Petrus Plancius.

* 1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.

Thomas Shelton's English translation of the First Part appeared in 1612.

In 1612, a Dutch fortress was built in Mouree, along the Dutch Gold Coast.

* 1566 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher ( d. 1612 )

* 1612 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman ( d. 1677 )

* 1612 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French military officer ( d. 1676 )

* 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician ( d. 1694 )

* 1612 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist ( d. 1683 )

* 1534 – Giovanni de ' Bardi, Italian writer ( d. 1612 )

* 1612 – John Pearson, English theologian ( d. 1686 )

" Moreover, some scholars believe he was largely responsible for the drafting, in 1609 and 1612, of two charters of government for the Virginia Colony.

He was sent as a missionary to China in 1610 and while waiting at Macau for a favorable opportunity to enter the country he published his " Résultat de l ' observation sue l ' éclipse de lune du 8 Novembre, 1612, faite a Macao " ( Mémoires de l ' Acad.

The Andromeda Galaxy was independently rediscovered by Simon Marius in 1612.

Imperial power sharply deteriorated by the time of Rudolf's death in 1612.