1543 :: Directory - All you ever wanted to know about 1543

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s
Years:	1540 1541 1542 - 1543 - 1544 1545 1546

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

Events of 1543

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 Abyssinian-Adal War.
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.

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 Line of Succession to the throne of England.

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 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)
April 1 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626)
September 14 - Claudio Aquaviva, 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)

See also Category: 1543 deaths.

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