1512

1512 (MDXII) was a leap year beginning on a Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• 11 April; The Franco-Prareous troops of Gaston II of Narbona defeat the Holy League in the battle of Ravena during the Italian wars.
• May 3; the Council of Lateran V begins
• 19 July; Fernando the Catholic, king of Aragon and governor of Castile, officially orders the invasion of the kingdom of Navarre.
• 25 July; Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, occupies Pamplona for Fernando the Catholic, who was already king of Aragon and Castile after the death of Queen Isabel in 1504.
• July - The IV treaty of Blois is signed.
• The Royal Orders given for the good regiment and treatment of the Indians, better known as Burgos Laws, are promulgated.
• Conates of Civil War in the kingdom of Aragon when confronted the two most important houses of the kingdom and captured for their cause the nobles of the crown, faced in battle or diplomatically. Even the Justice of Aragon.
• Construction of the Castle of La Calahorra (Granada)

Art and literature

Titian, The three ages of man

• October 31: Michelangelo finishes painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel after four years of work.
• Luca Signorelli paints The Rebellion of the Apostles.
• 23 September: Pope Julius II grants the privilege of celebrating the holy Jubilee year in the Spanish monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana, in Cantabria.
• Picture auto portrait Leonardo Da Vinci 1513.
• Titian paints, presumably, the Three Ages of Man.
• Lucas Cranach the Elder made a record in 1512 where a werewolf was shown.

Births

• January 13: Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, a Spanish religious.
• January 31: Enrique I of Portugal, king of Portugal (f. 1580)
• March 5: Gerardus Mercator, flamenco cartographer (f. 1594)
• 10 April: James V of Scotland, king of Scotland (f. 1542)
• 4 December: Jerónimo Zurita, Spanish historian (f. 1580).
• Pedro de Gamboa, master of works and Spanish alarife.
• Catherine Parr, queen consort of England.
• Rodrigo de Quiroga conqueror español.
• Melchor Bravo de Saravia, Spanish conqueror.
• Diego Laínez (Jeshua), successor of Saint Ignatius in The Society of Jesus.
• Leonor de Castro Mello y Menes, wife of Francisco de Borja and Lady of Isabel de Portugal.

Deaths

• February 22: Américo Vespucio, Italian navigator at the service of Castile (n. 1454)
• May 26: Beyazid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• Francesch Vicent, author of the first chess treaty.