The press was continued after Aldus ’ s death in 1515 by his wife and her father until his son Paolo ( 1512 – 1574 ) took over.

* 1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.

Bayezid II or Sultân Bayezid-î Velî ( December 3, 1447 – May 26, 1512 ) ( Ottoman Turkish: بايزيد ثانى Bāyezīd-i < u > s </ u > ānī, Turkish: II.

The Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo ( Fresco, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508 – 1512 )

* 1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer ( b. 1512 )

* 1512 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.

The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas may have discovered the island during his voyage of 1512 – 1513, but there is little corroborative evidence for this ; cartographic analysis points to 1532 or later.

* 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect ( b. 1512 )

Fifth Council of the Lateran ( 1512 – 1517 ) addressed church reform.

Galeazzo Alessi ( 1512 – December 30, 1572 ) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture.

* Gerhard Mercator 1512 – 1594 ( Belgium & Germany )

* 1580 – King Henry of Portugal ( b. 1512 )

* 1565 – Adrianus Turnebus, French scholar ( b. 1512 )

* 1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral ( b. 1512 )

* 1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1447 )

Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ; the work took approximately four years to complete ( 1508 – 1512 )

During the same period, Michelangelo took the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete ( 1508 – 1512 ).

* Ritracto delle cose della Magna ( 1508 – 1512 )-Portrait of the affairs of Germany.

* 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

Sultan Selim I ( 1512 – 1520 ) dramatically expanded the Empire's eastern and southern frontiers by defeating Shah Ismail of Safavid Persia, in the Battle of Chaldiran.

* 1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology ( Doctor in Biblia ).

* Gerardus Mercator ( 1512 – 1594 ), an innovative cartographer and originator of the Mercator projection.

The French held the city in 1500 – 1521, with a short Papal parenthesis in 1512 – 1515.

Niccolò experienced further tragedy in 1512 when the French invaded Brescia during the War of the League of Cambrai.

Soderini was repudiated in September 1512, when Cardinal Giovanni de Medici captured Florence with Papal troops during the War of the League of Cambrai.

When the Pope refused, Ferdinand fabricated a false bull and sent his general Don Fadrique de Toledo to invade Navarre in 1512, part of the second phase of the War of the League of Cambrai.

A larger church was built in 1512 but was destroyed during the Thirty Years ' War.

The work took 15 men three years to finish and in 1749, at 1512 pages, was the largest book printed in America before the Revolutionary War.

In 1512, during the War of the Holy League, the city was sacked by Spanish troops assembled by Pope Julius II and the king of Aragón, Ferdinand II, to recover the nearby city of Florence for the Medici family.

The Battle of Ravenna, fought on 11 April 1512, by forces of the Holy League and France, was a major battle of the War of the League of Cambrai in the Italian Wars.

Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours ( 10 December 1489 – 11 April 1512 ), also known as The Thunderbolt of Italy, was a French military commander noted mostly for his brilliant six-month campaign from 1511 to 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai.

At the Battle of Ravenna in 1512 he was taken prisoner by the French, but was released at the conclusion of the War of the League of Cambrai.

While Lübeck and the Hanseatic League prevailed in conflicts in 1435 and 1512, Lübeck lost when it became involved in the Count's Feud, a civil war that raged in Denmark from 1534 to 1536.

In 1512, during the Holy League wars, Ravenna was sacked by the French.

In 1500, or perhaps in 1502, he was given a very high judicial office in the Swabian League, which he held till 1512, when he retired to a small estate near Stuttgart.

The Veneto – Papal alliance eventually expanded into the Holy League, which drove the French from Italy in 1512 ; disagreements about the division of the spoils, however, led Venice to abandon the alliance in favor of one with France.

After delivering Bologna and taking Brescia, Gaston encountered the troops of the Holy League at Ravenna in April 1512 and routed the enemy, but was killed during the pursuit.

From 1512 on, the confederates fought on the side of Pope Julius II and his Holy League against the French in territories south of the Alps.

With Sir Edward Poynings and others he was sent in 1512 to arrange a Holy League between Pope Julius II, the English king and other European sovereigns.

In 1512, he led the negotiations with Francis I that resulted in Venice leaving the League and allying with France.

Beginning in February 1512, the French forces in Italy, newly commanded by Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours, had been engaged in capturing cities in the Romagna and the Veneto, in an attempt to deny control of those regions to the forces of the Holy League.

In the Italian Wars Alfonso preserved his precarious position among the contending powers by flexibility and vigilance and the unrivalled fortifications of Ferrara ; he entered the League of Cambrai against Venice and remained an ally of Louis XII of France even after Pope Julius II had made peace with Venice ; when the Bolognesi rebelled against Julius and toppled Michelangelo's bronze statue of the Pope from above the gate, Alfonso received the shards and recast them as a cannon named La Giulia, which he set on the ramparts of the castello: in 1510 Julius excommunicated him and declared his fiefs forfeit, thereby adding Ferrara to the Papal States ; Alfonso then fought successfully against the Venetian and Papal armies, gaining the Battle of Polesella, capturing Bologna, and playing a major part in the French victory at the Battle of Ravenna ( 1512 ).