512

This article is about the year 512. For the number, see 512 (number). For other uses, see 512 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	490s 500s 510s 520s 530s
Years:	509 510 511 512 513 514 515

512 in various calendars

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

Areobindus in his consular robes

Year 512 (DXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paulus and Moschianus (or, less frequently, year 1265 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 512 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate eclectic policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
• Areobindus, Byzantine general, is proclaimed emperor during a riot at Constantinople but refuses to take part in the usurpation.
• Anastasius I constructs a wall from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, to protect Constantinople from raiding Bulgars and Slavs.

Europe

• King Theodoric the Great grants citizens on Mount Vesuvius exemption from taxes, after a severe eruption in southeastern Italy.
• The Ostrogoths conquer the Frankish province Rouergue (Southern Gaul).

Asia

• The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Silla dynasty (Korea), under general Kim Isabu.

By topic

Literature

• The first written text in the Arabic alphabet is recorded at Zabad (Syria).

Births

• David, Welsh bishop and saint (approximate date)
• Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)
• Maurus, Roman abbot and saint (d. 584)
• Wu Mingche, general of the Chen dynasty (d. 578)
• Lady Xian, Chinese general (d. 602)

Deaths

• Areobindus, Byzantine general and politician
• Wang Baoming, empress of Southern Qi (b. 455)