1543

Year 1543 (MDXLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1543

January - June

* 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 the Ethiopian–Adal War.
* May - Nicolaus Copernicus publishes "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" in Nuremberg.

July - December

* July 12 - King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine 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 under Hayreddin Barbarossa occupy Nice.
* September-October - Landrecies in Picardy is besieged by forces under Emperor Charles V, but withdraw on the approach of the French army.

Undated

* The Japanese receive the first firearms 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 the order of succession to the throne of England.

cience

* Andreas Vesalius publishes "De humani corporis fabrica" ("On the Fabric of the Human Body"), revolutionising the science of human anatomy.
* Nicolaus Copernicus publishes "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" in Nuremberg.
* The Scientific 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 of Ming 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 of Adal (in battle) (b. c. 1506)
* May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
* July 19 - Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry 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

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