1512
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This article is about the year 1512.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1480s 1490s 1500s – 1510s – 1520s 1530s 1540s |
| Years: | 1509 1510 1511 – 1512 – 1513 1514 1515 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1512 MDXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2265 |
| Armenian calendar | 961 ԹՎ ՋԿԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6262 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -332–-331 |
| Bengali calendar | 919 |
| Berber calendar | 2462 |
| English Regnal year | 3 Hen. 8 – 4 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2056 |
| Burmese calendar | 874 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7020–7021 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年十二月十三日 (4148/4208-12-13) — to —
壬申年十一月廿四日(4149/4209-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 1228–1229 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1504–1505 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5272–5273 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1568–1569 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1434–1435 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4613–4614 |
| Holocene calendar | 11512 |
| Iranian calendar | 890–891 |
| Islamic calendar | 917–918 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 9 (永正9年) |
| Korean calendar | 3845 |
| Minguo calendar | 400 before ROC 民前400年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2055 |
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Year 1512 (MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- February 18 – War of the League of Cambrai: Sack of Brescia by the French.
- April 11 – War of the League of Cambrai: 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.
- May 3 – The Fifth Council of the Lateran starts.
[edit] July–December
- August 10 – War of the League of Cambrai: English naval victory at the Battle of St. Mathieu over the French.
- Summer – War of the League of Cambrai: Ferdinand II of Aragon sends Don Fadrique de Toledo to complete the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
- 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.
[edit] Date unknown
- António de Abreu discovers Timor island and reaches Banda Islands, Ambon Island and Seram.
- Francisco Serrão reaches the Moluccas.
- Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Pedro Mascarenhas discovers Diego Garcia and reaches Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands.
- Selim I succeeds Bayezid II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Turkish Empire, on the same conditions as Wallachia: the voivode will be designated by the Turks, but will be of the Orthodox faith. Also, the Turks are not allowed to build mosques, to be buried, to own land or to settle in the country.
- The Florentine Republic is dismantled and the Medici family comes back into power.
- The word "masque" is first used to denote a poetic drama.
- Wolverhampton Grammar School is founded by Sir Stephen Jenyns in England.
- Giggleswick School is founded by Rev James Carr in England.
- Paracelsus moves to Ferrara.
- Possible date - Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become his heliocentric astronomy De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.[1][2][3]
[edit] Births
- January 31 – King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
- March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (d. 1594)
- April 10 – King James V of Scotland (d. 1542)
- date unknown
- Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1548)
- Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (d. 1572)
- Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish renegade (d. 1556)
- Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (d. 1585)
- Marcin Kromer, bishop of Warnia (d. 1589)
- James Lainez, Jesuit General and theologian (d. 1565)
- Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Lithuanian and Polish magnate (d. 1584)
- Tabinshwehti, king who unified Burma (d. 1550)
- Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (d. 1565)
- Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (d. 1580)
- probable
- Henry Balnaves, Scottish politician and religious reformer (d. 1579)
- Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (d. 1558)
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 – Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504 (b. 1460)
- February 2 – Hatuey, Taíno chief
- February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, discoverer of the New World (b. 1454)
- April 11 – Gaston de Foix, French military commander (b. 1489)
- May 21 – Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena (b. c. 1450)
- May 26 – Beyazid II, Ottoman Sultan (b. c. 1447)
- June 20 – Goto Yujo, swordsman, artisan (b. 1440)
- August 12 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- September 19 – John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Scottish peer (b. 1440)
[edit] References
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 229. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
- ^ Gingerich, Owen (2004). The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. New York: Walker. ISBN 0-8027-1415-3.
- ^ Koyré, Alexandre (1973). The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus – Kepler – Borelli. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-0504-1.
