512
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This article is about the year 512 AD. For other uses, see 512 (disambiguation).
| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 480s 490s 500s 510s 520s 530s 540s |
| Years: | 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 |
| 512 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 512 DXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1265 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1332 – -1331 |
| Bengali calendar | -81 |
| Berber calendar | 1462 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1056 |
| Burmese calendar | -126 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6020 – 6021 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年十一月廿七日 (3148/3208-11-27) — to —
壬辰年十二月初八日(3149/3209-12-8) |
| Coptic calendar | 228 – 229 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 504 – 505 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4272 – 4273 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 567 – 568 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 434 – 435 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3613 – 3614 |
| Holocene calendar | 10512 |
| Iranian calendar | 110 BP – 109 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 113 BH – 112 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2845 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1055 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate eclectic policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
[edit] Italy
- Mount Vesuvius erupts again in southeastern Italy on the Mediterranean coast.
[edit] Asia
- The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Arts and sciences
- Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria.
- June 29—A solar eclipse is noted by Marcellinus Comes.
- Page with Wild Blackberry, from "De Materia Medica", by Pedanius Dioscorides, copy made and illustrated in Constantinople for Princess Anicia Juliana, is made. It is now kept at Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (approximate date).
[edit] Religion
- Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.
[edit] Births
- St. David, patron saint of Wales
- Wu Mingche
