512

512 was a leap year.
 Events 
 Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate ecclestical policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
 Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.
 The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu.
 Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria

 Births 
 Saint David