1512

November 1: Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is displayed to the public for the first time.
April 11: Thousands are killed in the Battle of Ravenna
1512 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1512
MDXII
Ab urbe condita2265
Armenian calendar961
ԹՎ ՋԿԱ
Assyrian calendar6262
Balinese saka calendar1433–1434
Bengali calendar918–919
Berber calendar2462
English Regnal yearHen. 8 – 4 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2056
Burmese calendar874
Byzantine calendar7020–7021
Chinese calendar辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4209 or 4002
    — to —
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4210 or 4003
Coptic calendar1228–1229
Discordian calendar2678
Ethiopian calendar1504–1505
Hebrew calendar5272–5273
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1568–1569
 - Shaka Samvat1433–1434
 - Kali Yuga4612–4613
Holocene calendar11512
Igbo calendar512–513
Iranian calendar890–891
Islamic calendar917–918
Japanese calendarEishō 9
(永正9年)
Javanese calendar1429–1430
Julian calendar1512
MDXII
Korean calendar3845
Minguo calendar400 before ROC
民前400年
Nanakshahi calendar44
Thai solar calendar2054–2055
Tibetan calendarལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Iron-Sheep)
1638 or 1257 or 485
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Water-Monkey)
1639 or 1258 or 486

Year 1512 (MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 2 – Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504, dies at the age of 51. Eric Trolle is subsequently elected as the new Regent, but will be ousted after only six months.[1]
  • January 23 – Neagoe Basarab becomes the new Prince of Wallachia at the capital, Târgoviște, after Prince Prince Vlad V is captured at battle in Bucharest and then decapitated.[2]
  • February 18War of the League of Cambrai: The French carry out the Sack of Brescia.
  • March 12Pope Julius II issues the papal bull Dilecte fili, declaring King Louis XII deposed and directing that the French throne be given to King Henry VIII of England.
  • March 23 – Donyo Dorje, ruler of the Kingdom of Ü-Tsang and most of Tibet, dies after a reign of more than 30 years and is succeeded by his brother, Ngawang Namgyal.[3]

April–June

  • April 6 – A truce was concluded in Rome, between the emperor Maximilian I and the Republic of Venice. It was ratified on 20 May by the emperor, thus ending imperial participation in the League of Cambrai.[4]
  • April 11 – War of the League of Cambrai – Battle of Ravenna:[5] French troops under Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, assisted by the Duchy of Ferrara, defeat the Spanish and Papal States troops led by Ramón de Cardona. Gaston is killed in the pursuit as the Spanish retreat, and at least 3,000 of his troops are killed. More than 9,000 Spanish and Papal troops are killed, and 17,000 civilians in and around the city of Ravenna are massacred.[6]
  • May 3 – The Fifth Council of the Lateran begins.
  • May 12 – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, leads an English expedition into France and burns the port city of Brest.[7]
  • May 26Selim I succeeds Bayezid II, as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
  • June 15 – Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, ruler of the Mamluk Sultanate that controls Egypt and what is now Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria, receives an envoy from King George II of Kakheti (now located in the Republic of Georgia) and decides to reopen the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.[8]
  • June 16 – Massimiliano Sforza is installed as the new Duke of Milan by the Holy League, to force out King Louis XII of France.
  • June 24 – Captain-Major Simão de Miranda de Azevedo took office as the new Portuguese Governor of Mozambique after being replaced by King Manuel I to replace António de Saldanha.
  • June 29 – Giano II di Campofregoso was elected as the Doge of the Republic of Genoa in Italy after the withdrawal of French occupation troops, filling a vacancy that had existed since 1507.

July–September

October–December

  • October 19Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).[12]
  • October 21Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.[12]
  • November 1 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
  • November 10 – Pope Julius II proposes the conclusion of a comprehensive peace treaty between the emperor and the Venetians, that would resolve various political conflicts by favoring Maximilian's interests and suppressing the French influence in Italy.[13]
  • December 23 – Finding the Pope's peace proposals too favorable towards the emperor, Venetian government decides to initiate peace negotiations with the king of France.[14]
  • December 27 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.

Date unknown

  • António de Abreu discovers Timor Island, and reaches the Banda Islands, Ambon Island and Seram.
  • Francisco Serrão reaches the Moluccas.
  • Francisco Serrao and other shipwreck sailors with permission from the Ternate Sultanate build Fort Tolukko. It is one of the earliest, if not the first European style fortress in southeast Asia.
  • Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.[15]
  • Pedro Mascarenhas discovers Diego Garcia, and reaches Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands.
  • Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, on the same conditions as Wallachia: the voivode will be designated by the Turks, but will be Eastern Orthodox Christians. Also, the Turks are not allowed to build mosques, to be buried, to own land or to settle in the country.
  • The Florentine Republic begins to be dismantled, and the Medici Family comes back into power.[16]
  • The word masque is first used to denote a poetic drama.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.[17][18][19]


Births

Sibylle of Cleves
Gerardus Mercator

Deaths

Amerigo Vespucci
Sultan Bayezid II
Alessandro Achillini

References

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  8. ^ Viaggio di Domenico Trevisan, ambasciatore veneto al gran Sultano del Cairo nell’anno 1512, descritto da Zaccaria Pagani di Belluno, ed. N. Barozzi (Venice, 1875)
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