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1512{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1509 1510 1511 - 1512 - 1513 1514 1515 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |} ==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 pursuit. * November 1 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time. * Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands. * Selim I succeeds Beyazid II as Ottoman Emperor 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 poetry theater. * Florentine Republic is dismantled and the Medici family comes back into power. ==Births== * January 31 - Henry of Portugal, seventeenth King of Portugal (died 1580) * March 5 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (died 1594) * April 10 - King James V of Scotland, king of Scotland (September 9 (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) * Anthony More, Dutch portrait painter (died 1576) * 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) ==Deaths== * February 22 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer (born 1454) * May 21 - Pandolfo Petrucci, tyrant of Siena during the Renaissance (born 1450) * May 26 - Beyazid II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512 (born 1447) * August 12 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (born 1463) * September 19 - John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Scottish peer (born 1440) * November 8 - Emery d'Amboise, Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes * Hatuey, Taíno chief 1512 la:1512 os:1512 sq:1512 15121510s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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