1543

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

Contents

Events of 1543

January - June

July - December

Undated

Science

Births

Deaths

Events of 1543

January - June

★ February 21 - Battle of Wayna Daga - A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeat the armies of Adal led by Ahmed Gragn.

★ 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 Khair ed-Din 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

★ Japanese receive 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 Line of Succession to the throne of England.

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.

Births

★ January 18 - (baptized) - Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer (died 1588)

★ January 31 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (died 1616)

★ February 15 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (died 1608)

★ February 16 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (died 1590)

★ April 1 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (died 1626)

★ September 14 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (died 1615)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladeer (died 1600)

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★ Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (died 1607)

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★ Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, first Dalai Lama (died 1588)

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★ François Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1621)

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★ Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, rabbi and mystic (died 1620)

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★ Chen Lin, general of Ming Dynasty

★ ''probable''

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★ Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (died 1607)

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★ Federico Zuccari, Italian painter (died 1609)

Deaths

★ January 2 - Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (born 1497)

★ January 3 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (born 1499)

★ January 9 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)

★ February 21 - Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, Imam of Adal (killed in battle) (born c1506)

★ May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)

★ July 19 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (born 1500)

★ September 20 - Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (born 1492)

★ November 29 - Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England

★ December 27

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★ George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born 1484)

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★ Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (born 1502)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Italian painter (born 1492)

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★ Baccio D'Agnolo, Florentine woodcarver (born 1460)

★ ''probable''

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★ Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (born 1515)

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★ Margaret Lee, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (born 1506)

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★ Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk, founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda