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Calendar year
April 11 :
Battle of Ravenna
Year 1512 (
MDXII ) was a
leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–June
July–December
Date unknown
António de Abreu discovers
Timor Island , and reaches the
Banda Islands ,
Ambon Island and
Seram .
Francisco Serrão reaches the
Moluccas .
Francisco Serrao and other shipwreck sailors with permission from the
Ternate Sultanate build
Fort Tolukko . It is one of the earliest, if not the first European style fortress in southeast Asia.
Juan Ponce de León discovers the
Turks and Caicos Islands .
[5]
Pedro Mascarenhas discovers
Diego Garcia , and reaches
Mauritius in the
Mascarene Islands .
Moldavia becomes a vassal of the
Ottoman Empire , on the same conditions as
Wallachia : the voivode will be designated by the Turks, but will be
Eastern Orthodox Christians. Also, the Turks are not allowed to build mosques, to be buried, to own land or to settle in the country.
The
Florentine Republic begins to be dismantled, and the
Medici Family comes back into power.
[6]
The word
masque is first used to denote a poetic drama.
Possible date –
Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write
Commentariolus , an abstract of what will eventually become his
heliocentric astronomy
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by
1514 .
[7]
[8]
[9]
Births
Sibylle of Cleves
Gerardus Mercator
January 13 –
Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela , General Inquisitor of Spain (d.
1594 )
January 17 –
Sibylle of Cleves , electress consort of Saxony (d.
1554 )
January 31 –
Henry, King of Portugal and Cardinal (d.
1580 )
[10]
February 3 –
John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews (d.
1571 )
February 22 –
Pedro Agustín , Spanish Catholic bishop (d.
1572 )
March 5 –
Gerardus Mercator , Flemish cartographer (d.
1594 )
April 10 –
James V of Scotland , King of Scots (d.
1542 )
[11]
April 23 –
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel , Chancellor of the University of Oxford (d.
1580 )
April 30 –
George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels , Count of Glatz (d.
1553 )
July 5 –
Cristoforo Madruzzo , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1578 )
July 25 –
Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva , Spanish jurist, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cuenca (d.
1577 )
August ? –
Catherine Parr , English queen consort (d.
1548 )
[12]
August 27 –
Friedrich Staphylus , German theologian (d.
1564 )
November 4 –
Hu Zongxian , Chinese general (d.
1565 )
November 9 –
Jon Simonssøn , Norwegian humanist (d.
1575 )
November 11 –
Marcin Kromer , Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d.
1589 )
December 21 –
Boniface IV, Marquess of Montferrat , Italian nobleman (d.
1530 )
date unknown
Deaths
Amerigo Vespucci
Sultan
Bayezid II
Alessandro Achillini
January 2 –
Svante Nilsson , regent of Sweden since
1504 (b.
1460 )
[1]
January 30 –
Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1500–1512) (b.
1473 )
February 2 –
Hatuey , Puerto Rican Taíno chief
February 22 –
Amerigo Vespucci , Italian merchant and cartographer, after whom the
Americas are named (b.
1451 )
March 29 –
Lucas Watzenrode , Prince-Bishop of Warmia (b.
1447 )
April 11
May 21 –
Pandolfo Petrucci , ruler of Siena (b.
1452 )
May 26 –
Bayezid II ,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1447 )
June 20 –
Goto Yujo , Japanese swordsman and artisan (b.
1440 )
August 2 –
Alessandro Achillini , Italian philosopher (b.
1463 )
August 15 –
Imperia Cognati , Italian courtesan (b.
1486 )
September 15 –
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl , Scottish peer (b.
1440 )
September 29 –
Johannes Engel , German doctor, astronomer and astrologer (b.
1453 )
[14]
October 5 –
Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach , Polish princess (b.
1464 )
October 31 –
Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (b.
1437 )
References
^
a
b
c Carl Georg STARBÄCK (1864).
Öfversigt af riksföreståndarskapet i Sverige under unionstiden, etc . pp. 22–23.
^
Augustiniana . Augustijns Historisch Instituut. 1977. p. 202.
^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance , Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p28
^
a
b Eric W. Gritsch (May 1, 2009).
Martin - God's Court Jester: Luther in Retrospect . Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 10.
ISBN
978-1-72522-571-8 .
^
Turks & Caicos Islands: Report for the Years ... H.M. Stationery Office. 1961. p. 45.
^ Quentin Skinner (November 30, 1978).
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance . Cambridge University Press. p. 153.
ISBN
978-0-521-29337-2 .
^ Grun, Bernard (1991).
The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p.
229 .
ISBN
0-671-74919-6 .
^
Gingerich, Owen (2004).
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus . New York: Walker.
ISBN
0-8027-1415-3 .
^
Koyré, Alexandre (1973). The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus – Kepler – Borelli . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
0-8014-0504-1 .
^ Thomas Spencer Baynes (1880).
The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature . Samuel L. Hall. p. 671.
^ Lynch, Michael, ed. (February 24, 2011). The Oxford companion to Scottish history . Oxford University Press. p. 353.
ISBN
9780199693054 .
^ Queen Catharine Parr (June 30, 2011).
Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence . University of Chicago Press. p. 5.
ISBN
978-0-226-64724-1 .
^ Gareth Ffowc Roberts (February 15, 2016).
Count Us In: How to Make Maths Real for All of Us . University of Wales Press. p. 22.
ISBN
978-1-78316-797-5 .
^ Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard; Marché, Jordan D.; Ragep, F. Jamil (September 18, 2007).
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Springer Science & Business Media. p. 339.
ISBN
978-0-387-30400-7 .