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# 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

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