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What Happened in January 1612

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Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 17 Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general (Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army during English Civil War), born in Denton Hall, Yorkshire, England (d. 1671)
  • Jan 31 Henry Casimir I, Dutch count of Nassau-Dietz and Stadholder of Freisland, born in Arnhem (d. 1640)
Born in 1612

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 4 Henric Laurenszoon Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel), dies at 62
  • Jan 20 Rudolf II von Habsburg, Emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59
  • Jan 27 Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77
  • Jan 28 Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar (founder of the Bodleian Library), dies at 66

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