1512 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

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 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
• 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 (born 1454)
• May 21 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena
• May 26 - Beyazid II, Ottoman Sultan
• 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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