Editing 1512 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 11]] &ndash; War of the League of Cambrai &ndash; [[Battle of Ravenna (1512)|Battle of Ravenna]]:<ref>{{cite book|title=Augustiniana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U4vYAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Augustijns Historisch Instituut|page=202}}</ref> [[Kingdom of France|French]] troops under [[Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours]], assisted by the [[Duchy of Ferrara]], defeat the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] and [[Papal States]] troops led by [[Ramón de Cardona]]. Gaston is killed in the pursuit as the Spanish retreat, and at least 3,000 of his troops are killed. More than 9,000 Spanish and Papal troops are killed, and 17,000 civilians in and around the city of [[Ravenna]] are massacred.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bowd |first=Stephen D. |title=Renaissance Mass Murder: Civilians and Soldiers during the Italian Wars |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2018 |page=6}}</ref>
* [[May 3]] &ndash; The [[Fifth Council of the Lateran]] begins.
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk]], leads an English expedition into France and burns the port city of [[Brest, France|Brest]].<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p28</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Selim I]] succeeds [[Bayezid II]], as [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]].
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri]], ruler of the [[Mamluk Sultanate]] that controls Egypt and what is now Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria, receives an envoy from [[George II of Kakheti|King George II of Kakheti]] (now located in the [[Republic of Georgia]]) and decides to reopen the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] in [[Jerusalem]].<ref>Viaggio di Domenico Trevisan, ambasciatore veneto al gran Sultano del Cairo nell’anno 1512, descritto da Zaccaria Pagani di Belluno, ed. N. Barozzi (Venice, 1875)</ref>
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Sforza|Massimiliano Sforza]] is installed as the new [[List of dukes of Milan|Duke of Milan]] by the [[Holy League]], to force out King [[Louis XII of France]].
* [[June 24]] &ndash; Captain-Major Simão de Miranda de Azevedo took office as the new [[List of colonial governors of Mozambique|Portuguese Governor of Mozambique]] after being replaced by [[Manuel I of Portugal|King Manuel I]] to replace    [[António de Saldanha]].
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Giano II di Campofregoso]] was elected as the [[Doge of Genoa|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Genoa]] in Italy after the withdrawal of French occupation troops, filling a vacancy that had existed since [[1507]].