Home › Entities › calendar_year › 1612

1612

year
Intangible calendar_year Q6771
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

1612 is a calendar year[1]. 1612 draws 478 Wikipedia views per month (calendar year category, ranking #178 of 522).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: leap year starting on Sunday and ending on Monday[3]
  • Follows: 1611[4]
  • Followed by: 1613[5]
  • Part of: 1610s[6], Gregorian calendar[7]
  • Commons category: 1612[8]
  • Point in time: January 1, 1612[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:1612[10]
  • Has list: list of state leaders in 1612[11]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q31802185[12]
  • Category for births in this time period: Category:1612 births[13]
  • Category for deaths in this time period: Category:1612 deaths[14]

Why It Matters

1612 has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] 1612 is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). 1612. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/1612-q6771-2
MLA “1612.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/1612-q6771-2.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_1612-q6771-2_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{1612}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/1612-q6771-2}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): 1612 — https://4ort.xyz/entity/1612-q6771-2 (retrieved 2026-10-11)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/1612-q6771-2 · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Famous birthdays id → year/1612
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Famous birthdays id: year/1612, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/301570649|1612 (#301570649)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8233|Famous Birthdays years]]"
  2. 13w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Follows → 1611
    Topic's main category → Category:1612
    Follows → —
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||no, ary */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.