What is 512?
{{Year nav|512}} {{Year in other calendars}} '''512''' was a [[leap year]]. == Events == * Roman ([[Byzantine]]) [[Anastasius I of the Byzantine Empire|Emperor Anastasius I]] ends a period of moderate ecclestical policy, and starts strongly favoring his own [[monophysitism|monophysitist]] beliefs. * [[Flavian II of Antioch|Flavian II]], [[Patriarch of Antioch]], is deposed and replaced with [[Severus of Antioch|Severus]]. * The island nation of [[Usan-guk]] is conquered by the [[Korea]]n [[Silla|Silla Dynasty]] general [[Lee Sabu]]. * [[pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions|Earliest known dated text]] in the [[Arabic alphabet]], at [[Zebed]] in [[Syria]] == Births == * [[Saint David]] [[Category:512| ]]