1543
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s |
| Years: | 1540 1541 1542 - 1543 - 1544 1545 1546 |
| 1543 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1543 (MDXLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1543
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Science
- 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.[1]
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1543 MDXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2296 |
| Armenian calendar | 992 ԹՎ ՋՂԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -301 – -300 |
| Berber calendar | 2493 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2087 |
| Burmese calendar | 905 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7051 – 7052 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年十一月廿六日 (4179/4239-11-26) — to —
癸卯年十二月初六日(4180/4240-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 1259 – 1260 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1535 – 1536 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5303 – 5304 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1598 – 1599 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1465 – 1466 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4644 – 4645 |
| Holocene calendar | 11543 |
| Iranian calendar | 921 – 922 |
| Islamic calendar | 949 – 950 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 12 (天文12年) |
| Korean calendar | 3876 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2086 |
- 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)
[edit] 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
- See also Category: 1543 deaths.
