1512
| Years: 1509 1510 1511 - 1512 - 1513 1514 1515 | |
| Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
| 1512 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1512 MDXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2265 |
| Armenian calendar | 961 ԹՎ ՋԿԱ |
| Chinese calendar | 4148/4208-12-13 (辛未年十二月十三日) — to — 4149/4209-11-24(壬申年十一月廿四日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1504 – 1505 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5272 – 5273 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1567 – 1568 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1434 – 1435 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4613 – 4614 |
| Iranian calendar | 890 – 891 |
| Islamic calendar | 918 – 919 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2055 |
1512 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
- April 11 - Battle of Ravenna. French forces under Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours defeat the Spanish under Raymond of Cardona, but Gaston is killed in the pursuit.
- October 19 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology [Doctor in Biblia].
- October 21 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg
- November 1 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
- Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Selim I succeeds Beyazid II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- Moldavia is conquered by the Turks.
- Copernicus writes Commentariolus and moves the sun to the center of the solar system.
- First use of the word "masque" to denote a poetic drama.
- Florentine Republic is dismantled and the Medici family comes back into power.
Births
- January 31 - King Henry of Portugal (died 1580)
- March 5 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (died 1594)
- April 10 - King James V of Scotland (died 1542)
- Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (died 1572)
- Henry Balnaves, Scottish politician and religious reformer (died 1579)
- Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish renegade (died 1556)
- Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (died 1585)
- Marcin Kromer, bishop of Warnia (died 1589)
- James Lainez, Jesuit General and theologian (died 1565)
- Mikolaj Rudy Radziwill, Polish magnate (died 1584)
- Tabinshwehti, king who unified Burma (died 1550)
- Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (died 1565)
- Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (died 1580)
Deaths
- January 2 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
- February 22 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, discoverer of new world (born 1454)
- May 21 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena (born c1450)
- May 26 - Beyazid II, Ottoman Sultan (born c1447)
- August 12 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (born 1463)
- September 19 - John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Scottish peer (born 1440)
- Hatuey, Taíno chief
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