1543
*
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 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
*
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
Abc-kiria*
Andreas Vesalius publishes
De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (
On the Fabric of the Human Body), revolutionising the science of human
anatomy*
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in
Nuremberg*
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)
*
Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist (died
1600)
*
Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (died
1607)
*
Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, first Dalai Lama
*
Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (died
1607)
*
François Pithou, French lawyer and author (died
1621)
*
Chaim Vital, rabbi and mystic (died
1620)
*
Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter (died
1609)
See also :Category: 1543 births.*
January 3 -
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (born
1499)
*
January 9 -
Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b.
1491)
*
February 21 -
Ahmad Gragn, Imam of
Adal (killed in battle)
*
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)
*
Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born
1484)
*
Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Italian painter (born
1492)
*
Baccio D'Agnolo, Florentine woodcarver (born
1460)
*
Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (born
1515)
*
Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England
*
Margaret Lee, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (born
1506)
*
Francesco da Milano, Italian composer (born
1497)
*
Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk, founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda
*
Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (born
1502)
See also :Category: 1543 deaths.
