512
- This article is about the year 512 AD. For other uses, see 512 (disambiguation).
| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 480s 490s 500s 510s 520s 530s 540s |
| Years: | 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 |
| 512 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 512 DXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1265 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5262 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 433–434 |
| Bengali calendar | −81 |
| Berber calendar | 1462 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1056 |
| Burmese calendar | −126 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6020–6021 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3209 or 3002 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3210 or 3003 |
| Coptic calendar | 228–229 |
| Discordian calendar | 1678 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 504–505 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4272–4273 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 568–569 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 433–434 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3612–3613 |
| Holocene calendar | 10512 |
| Iranian calendar | 110 BP – 109 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 113 BH – 112 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 398–400 |
| Julian calendar | 512 DXII |
| Korean calendar | 2845 |
| Minguo calendar | 1400 before ROC 民前1400年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −956 |
| Seleucid era | 823/824 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1054–1055 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 638 or 257 or −515 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 639 or 258 or −514 |
Events
By Place
Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate eclectic policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
Italy
- Mount Vesuvius erupts again in southeastern Italy on the Mediterranean coast.
Asia
- The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu.
By Topic
Arts and Sciences
- Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria.
- June 29, 512 - solar eclipse per Marcellinus Comes.
Religion
- Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.