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Year '1512' (MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1512

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1512

January - June

★ 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.

July - December

★ 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.

Undated

★ Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.

★ Selim I succeeds Beyazid II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

★ Moldavia becomes vassal of the Turkish Empire, in the same condisions as Wallachia: the voivode will be designated by the turks, but will be of orthodox faith. Also, the turks were not allowed to build mosques, to be buried, to own land or to settle in the country.

★ 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.

★ Wolverhampton Grammar School is founded by Sir Stephen Jenyns

Births

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★ January 31 - King Henry of Portugal (died 1580)

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★ March 5 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (died 1594)

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★ April 10 - King James V of Scotland (died 1542)

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★ ''date unknown''

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★ Anne Boleyn (date unknown) (died 1536)

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★ Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (died 1572)

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★ Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish renegade (died 1556)

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★ Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (died 1585)

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★ Marcin Kromer, bishop of Warnia (died 1589)

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★ James Lainez, Jesuit General and theologian (died 1565)

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★ Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (died 1584)

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★ Tabinshwehti, king who unified Burma (died 1550)

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★ Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (died 1565)

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★ Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (died 1580)

★ ''probable''

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★ Henry Balnaves, Scottish politician and religious reformer (died 1579)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 2 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)

★ February 22 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, discoverer of new world (born 1454)

★ April 11 - Gaston de Foix, French military commander (born 1489)

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Goto Yujo, swordsman (born 1440)

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★ Hatuey, Taíno chief

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★ Alessandro Leopardo, sculptor
: ''See also .''