1512

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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s

Years: 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 - 1512 - 1513 1514 1515 1516 1517


[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

  • January 31 - King Henry of Portugal (died 1580)
  • March 5 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish 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)

[edit] Deaths