1512

Events of 1512

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.

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 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 Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Turkish Empire, on the same conditions as Wallachia: the voivode will be designated by the Turks, but will be of the Orthodox faith. Also, the Turks are not allowed to build mosques, to be buried, to own land or to settle in the country.
Copernicus writes Commentariolus, and moves the sun to the center of the solar system.
The word "masque" is first used to denote a poetic drama.
The Florentine Republic is dismantled and the Medici family comes back into power.
Wolverhampton Grammar School is founded by Sir Stephen Jenyns.
Ferdinand conquers Navarre.
The Fifth Council of the Lateran starts.

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January 2 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
February 22 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, discoverer of the New World (b. 1454)
April 11 - Gaston de Foix, French military commander (b. 1489)
May 21 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena (b. c. 1450)
May 26 - Beyazid II, Ottoman Sultan (b. c. 1447)
August 12 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
September 19 - John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Scottish peer (b. 1440)
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