1512

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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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1512 Media

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  November 1: Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is displayed to the public for the first time.

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  April 11: Thousands are killed in the Battle of Ravenna

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  Portrait engraving (135mm by 187mm) of Gerard Mercator: This was published in the first volume of Joannis Francisci Foppens' Bibliotheca Belgica in 1739.[1][2]

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  Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1401 in Florence, Italy - 22 February 1412) was an Italian merchant and cartographer. Statue outside the Uffizi, Florence.

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  Sultan Bayezid II "the Holy" (Veli). Ottoman miniature painting, located at Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul (Inv. H 1324, Fol. 29v)

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  Alessandro Achillini (1463—1512)

1512 (MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1512th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 512th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1512, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 fighting.
• 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 (Michelangelo Buonarroti), is shown to the public for the first time.
• Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.
• Selim I succeeds Beyazid II as Sultan, ruler 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 (d. 1580)
• March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
• April 10 – King James V of Scotland (d. 1542)
• Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (d. 1572)
• Henry Balnaves, Scottish politician and religious reformer (d. 1579)
• Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish renegade (d. 1556)
• Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (d. 1585)
• Marcin Kromer, bishop of Warnia (d. 1589)
• James Lainez, Jesuit General and theologian (d.1565)
• Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1548)
• Mikolaj Rudy Radziwill, Polish magnate (d. 1584)
• Tabinshwehti, king who unified Burma
• Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (d. 1565)
• Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (d. 1580)