1512 Facts for Kids

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

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.