1512

1512 (MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1512th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 512th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1512, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1512 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1512 MDXII
Ab urbe condita	2265
Armenian calendar	961 ԹՎ ՋԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	6262
Balinese saka calendar	1433–1434
Bengali calendar	919
Berber calendar	2462
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 8 – 4 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2056
Burmese calendar	874
Byzantine calendar	7020–7021
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4208 or 4148     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4209 or 4149
Coptic calendar	1228–1229
Discordian calendar	2678
Ethiopian calendar	1504–1505
Hebrew calendar	5272–5273
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1568–1569
- Shaka Samvat	1433–1434
- Kali Yuga	4612–4613
Holocene calendar	11512
Igbo calendar	512–513
Iranian calendar	890–891
Islamic calendar	917–918
Japanese calendar	Eishō 9 (永正９年)
Javanese calendar	1429–1430
Julian calendar	1512 MDXII
Korean calendar	3845
Minguo calendar	400 before ROC 民前400年
Nanakshahi calendar	44
Thai solar calendar	2054–2055
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1638 or 1257 or 485     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1639 or 1258 or 486

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)

Deaths