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

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

Before, Anguilla ( 1631 – 1650 ), the present-day British Virgin Islands ( 1612 – 1672 ), St. Croix and Tobago had also been Dutch.

Peter Stuyvesant ( c. 1612 – August 1672 ), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

* October 3 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar ( b. 1612 )

Some other interesting buildings are the town hall ( Stadhuis ), a 16th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in 1929 but has its Renaissance façade designed by Lieven de Key still standing ; the Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland ( 1596, restored in 1878 ); De Waag ( weigh house in Dutch ), built by Pieter Post ; the former court-house ( Gerecht ); a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( Molen de Valk ) ( 1743 ); the old gymnasium ( Latijnse School ) ( 1599 ) and the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( Stadstimmerwerf ) ( 1612 ), both built by Lieven de Key ( c. 1560 – 1627 ).

Latin editions, besides Dutch, French and German editions appeared before the end of 1572 ; the atlas continued to be in demand till about 1612.

Three Latin editions of this ( besides a Dutch, a French and a German edition ) appeared before the end of 1572 ; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius ' death in 1598 ; and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612.

Three Latin editions of this ( besides a Dutch language | Dutch, a French language | French and a German language | German edition ) appeared before the end of 1572 ; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius ' death in 1598 ; and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand till about 1612.

Just over a century later, the Dutch and English established trading outposts on the subcontinent, with the first English trading post set up at Surat in 1612.

Its first certain appearance was on a globe created by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius in 1612 or 1613 and it was later charted by Jakob Bartsch as Unicornus in his star chart of 1624.

Joining the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ), he made trading voyages to Indonesia in 1607 and 1612.

Before the Thirty Years ' War, the architect Ghert Evert Piloot, who had entered Mecklenburg's service in 1612, made plans to completely rebuild the castle in the style of the Dutch Renaissance.

The first voyages to Spitsbergen by the English, Dutch, and Danish relied on Basque specialists, with the Basque provinces sending out their own whaler in 1612.

They were soon joined by other groups such as the Portuguese in 1516, Japanese in 1592, Dutch in 1602, English in 1612, and of course a great number of Malay and Siamese merchants, who worked throughout the area.

Jodocus Hondius ( Latinized version of his Dutch name: Joost de Hondt ) ( 14 October 1563, Wakken – 12 February 1612, Amsterdam ), sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to distinguish him from his son Henricus Hondius II, was a Flemish artist, engraver, and cartographer.

Martin Conway argued in 1901 that Carolus ' chart indicated he discovered Edgeøya, but, as Wielder points out, Conway was ignorant of a map ( engraved in 1612 ) by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius, which illustrated a coastline to the east of Spitsbergen.

Andries Both ( 1612 / 1613-23 March 1642 ), was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter, one of the bamboccianti, and brother of Jan Dirksz Both.

historia ( 1611, 4 parts ); Beschryvinghe van Out Batavien ( Arnheim, 1612 ); Het oude Goutsche chronycxken van Hollandt, as editor, and printed at Amsterdam in 1663 ; and Principes Hollandiae Zelandiae et Frisiae ( Haarlem, 1650 ), translated ( 1678 ) into Dutch by Pieter Brugman.

* Peter Stuyvesant ( 1612 – 1672 ), Dutch director-general of New Amsterdam

Among the candidates for a living descendant of the Adamic language were: Gaelic ( see Auraicept na n-Éces ); Tuscan ( Giovanni Battista Gelli, 1542, Piero Francesco Giambullari, 1564 ); Dutch ( Goropius Becanus, 1569, Abraham Mylius, 1612 ); Swedish ( Olaus Rudbeck, 1675 ); German ( Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, 1641, Schottel, 1641 ) The Swedish physician Andreas Kempe wrote a satirical tract in 1688, where he made fun of the contest between the European nationalists to claim their native tongue as the Adamic language.

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn ( August 28, 1612 – October 3, 1653 ) was a Dutch scholar ( his Latinized name was Marcus Zuerius Boxhornii ).

Between 1612 to 1618 he was the commander of the Smolensk fortress and repulsed several attempts by the Muscovite army aimed at recapturing it.

In 1612, the Swedes conquered the fortress, which was bravely defended by a voivode, Fyodor Aminev ( b 1560s, d 1628 ) and his sons.

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.

" 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.

Muller ( 1874: pp. 190 – 191 ) took this to mean they had come upon Jan Mayen in 1611 or 1612, which was repeated by many subsequent authors.

Dowland was dismissed in 1606 and returned to England ; in early 1612 he secured a post as one of James I's lutenists.

Dowland's last, and in the opinion of most scholars, best work, A Pilgrimes Solace, was published in 1612, and seems to have been conceived more as a collection of contrapuntal music than as solo works.

In 1612, Galileo Galilei proposed that with sufficiently accurate knowledge of the orbits of the moons of Jupiter one could use their positions as a universal clock and this would make possible the determination of longitude, but the practical problems of the method he devised were severe and it was never used at sea.

On April 13, 1612, Musashi ( about age 30 ) fought his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, who was known as " The Demon of the Western Provinces " and who wielded a nodachi.

Murad IV Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد رابع Murād-i rābi ‘) < span dir =" ltr ">( July 26 / 27, 1612 – February 9, 1640 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.

The first edition of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca, which is the first great dictionary devoted to a modern European language ( Italian ), was published in 1612 ; the first edition of Dictionnaire de l ' Académie française dates from 1694.

In March 1612, however, Pope Paul V appointed him as the Archbishop of Bologna, for which he was presumably ordained and then he was consecrated a bishop on 1 May of that year.

The war to reduce the barons ' power continued for several years: in 1612 Barbara Sanseverino was executed in the central square of Parma, together with six other nobles charged of plotting against the duke.

Stuyvesant was born in Peperga, Friesland in the Netherlands, to Balthazar Johannes Stuyvesant, a minister, and Margaretha Hardenstein around 1612.

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.

Rudolf II ( July 18, 1552 – January 20, 1612 ) was Holy Roman Emperor ( 1576 – 1612 ), King of Hungary and Croatia ( 1572 – 1608 ), King of Bohemia ( 1575 – 1608 / 1611 ) and Archduke of Austria ( 1576 – 1608 ).

Rudolf died in 1612, nine months after he had been stripped of all effective power by his younger brother, except the empty title of Holy Roman Emperor, to which Matthias was elected five months later.