1712 (MDCCXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1712th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 712th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1712, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
July 24: Battle of Denain
1712 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1712
MDCCXII
Ab urbe condita2465
Armenian calendar1161
ԹՎ ՌՃԿԱ
Assyrian calendar6462
Balinese saka calendar1633–1634
Bengali calendar1119
Berber calendar2662
British Regnal year10 Ann. 1 – 11 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2256
Burmese calendar1074
Byzantine calendar7220–7221
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4409 or 4202
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4410 or 4203
Coptic calendar1428–1429
Discordian calendar2878
Ethiopian calendar1704–1705
Hebrew calendar5472–5473
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1768–1769
 - Shaka Samvat1633–1634
 - Kali Yuga4812–4813
Holocene calendar11712
Igbo calendar712–713
Iranian calendar1090–1091
Islamic calendar1123–1124
Japanese calendarShōtoku 2
(正徳2年)
Javanese calendar1635–1636
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4045
Minguo calendar200 before ROC
民前200年
Nanakshahi calendar244
Thai solar calendar2254–2255
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1838 or 1457 or 685
    — to —
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1839 or 1458 or 686

In the Swedish calendar it began as a leap year starting on Monday and remained so until Thursday, February 29. By adding a second leap day (Friday, February 30) Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year (from Saturday, March 1) was in sync with the Julian calendar. Sweden finally made the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1753. This year had 367 days.

Events

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January–March

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April –June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773) born 5 January
 
Frederick the Great born 24 January
 
Tokugawa Ieshige born 28 January
 
Nasir Jung born 26 February
 
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm born 28 February
 
Empress Xiaoxianchun born 28 March
 
Devasahayam Pillai born 23 April
 
Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy officer) born 4 June
 
Benjamin Ingham born 11 June
 
George Grenville born 14 October
 
John Thomas (bishop of Rochester) born 14 October
 
Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp born 24 October
 
Francesco Algarotti born 11 December
 
Peter Boehler born 31 December

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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Jan van der Heyden
 
Richard Cromwell
 
Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Unknown date

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References

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