text: is there anything that happened in 1612 thats extreamly important? i need to know for a collection of data i am collecting. january 20 - mathias becomes holy roman emperor.  antonius magirus's koock-boeck ofte familieren kevken-boeck is published.   4 november - popular uprising in moscow expels polish troops. trial of the pendle witches in pendle, lancashire is held.   november 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.   december 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.