1512

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s

Years: 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 - 1512 - 1513 1514 1515 1516 1517

• First use of the word "masque" to denote a poetic drama
• In Vatican, Michelangelo completes the Sistine Chapel

• 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.
• Selim I succeeds Beyazid II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Moldavia is conquered by the Turks

• Copernicus writes Commentariolus[?] and moves the sun to the center of the solar system

• Battle of Ravenna[?]

Births

• April 10/April 11 - Prince James Stuart, later King James V of Scotland.
• Catherine Parr, later sixth Queen consort of King Henry VIII of England.

Deaths

• Amerigo Vespucci (born 1451)