1512 facts for kids

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

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)