1512: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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, 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 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

• 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.
• Abati, italian artist

• February 22 - Amerigo Vespucci (b. 1454)