- 1543
Year 1543 (MDXLIII) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1543
January - June
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February 21 -Battle of Wayna Daga : A joint Ethiopian-Portuguese force of 8,500 under Emperor Gelawdewos, defeats Imam Ahmad Gran's army of over 14,000, ending theEthiopian–Adal War .
*May -Nicolaus Copernicus publishes "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium " inNuremberg .July - December
*July 12 - KingHenry VIII of England marriesCatherine Parr . It is the sixth of Henry's marriages and the third of Catherine's. Princess Elizabeth attends the wedding.
*August 5 - Turkish and French troops underHayreddin Barbarossa occupyNice .
*September -October -Landrecies inPicardy is besieged by forces under Emperor Charles V, but withdraw on the approach of the French army.Undated
* The
Japan ese receive the firstfirearm s from shipwrecked Portuguese.
* Indians in Spanish colonies are declared free against the wish of local settlers.
*Martin Luther publishes "On the Jews and Their Lies ".
*Mikael Agricola publishes "Abckiria ".
*Third Succession Act : Elizabeth is restored to theorder of succession to the throne ofEngland .cience
* Andreas Vesalius publishes "
De humani corporis fabrica " ("On the Fabric of the Human Body"), revolutionising the science of humananatomy .
*Nicolaus Copernicus publishes "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium " inNuremberg .
* TheScientific Revolution begins. [ [http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/scientificrev.html] ]Births
*January 18 - (baptized) - Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer (d.1588 )
*January 31 -Tokugawa Ieyasu , Japanese shogun (d.1616 )
*February 15 -Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d.1608 )
*February 16 -Kanō Eitoku , Japanese painter (d.1590 )
*April 1 -François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières , Constable of France (d.1626 )
*September 14 -Claudio Acquaviva , Italian Jesuit (d.1615 )
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Deloney , English novelist and balladeer (d.1600 )
**Domenico Fontana , Italian architect (d.1607 )
**Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama , first Dalai Lama (d.1588 )
**François Pithou , French lawyer and author (d.1621 )
**Hayyim ben Joseph Vital , rabbi and mystic (d.1620 )
**Chen Lin, general ofMing Dynasty
*"probable"
**Giovanni Maria Nanino , Italian composer (d.1607 )
**Federico Zuccari , Italian painter (d.1609 )Deaths
*January 2 -Francesco Canova da Milano , Italian composer (b.1497 )
*January 3 -Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , Portuguese explorer (b.1499 )
*January 9 -Guillaume du Bellay , French diplomat and general (b.1491 )
*February 21 -Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi , Imam ofAdal (in battle) (b. c.1506 )
*May 24 -Nicolaus Copernicus , mathematician and astronomer (b.1473 )
*July 19 -Mary Boleyn , mistress of KingsFrancis I of France andHenry VIII of England (b.1500 )
*September 20 -Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (b.1492 )
*November 29 -Hans Holbein the Younger , German artist, active in England
*December 27
**George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b.1484 )
**Francesco Spiera , Protestant Italian jurist (b.1502 )
*"date unknown"
**Polidoro da Caravaggio , Italian painter (b.1492 )
**Baccio D'Agnolo , Florentine woodcarver (b.1460 )
*"probable"
**Sebastian Franck , German freethinker (b.1515 )
**Margaret Lee, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (b.1506 )
**Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk , founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda: "See also ."
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