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 |
[change] 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
- 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
- Native Americans in Spanish colonies are announced free against the wish of local settlers
- Martin Luther publishes On the Jews and Their Lies.
[change] Births
- January 18 - (baptized) - Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer
- January 31 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun
- February 15 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
- February 16 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter
- April 1 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France
- September 14 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit
[change] Deaths
- January 2 - Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer
- January 3 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer
- January 9 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general
- February 21 - Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, Imam of Adal (killed in battle)
- May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer
- July 19 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England
- September 20 - Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland
- November 29 - Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England
