1543
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| Years: 1540 1541 1542 - 1543 - 1544 1545 1546 | |
| Decades: 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1543 MDXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2296 |
| Armenian calendar | 992 ԹՎ ՋՂԲ |
| Chinese calendar | 4179/4239-11-26 (壬寅年十一月廿六日) — to — 4180/4240-12-6(癸卯年十二月初六日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1535 – 1536 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5303 – 5304 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1598 – 1599 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1465 – 1466 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4644 – 4645 |
| Iranian calendar | 921 – 922 |
| Islamic calendar | 950 – 951 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2086 |
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[edit] Events
- 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 Abckiria
[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
[edit] 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)
- Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist (died 1600)
- Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (died 1607)
- Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, first Dalai Lama (died 1588)
- 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.
[edit] Deaths
- 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)
- 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)
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