1543

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

[edit] Events of 1543

[edit] January - June

May: Nicolaus Copernicus.

• 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 Ethiopian–Adal War.
• May - Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in Nuremberg.

[edit] 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 Hayreddin 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.

[edit] Undated

• 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 order of succession to the throne of England.

[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.
• The Scientific Revolution begins.^[1]

[edit] Births

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

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 - Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)
• January 3 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
• January 9 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
• February 21 - Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, Imam of Adal (in battle) (b. c. 1506)
• May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
• July 19 - Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (b. 1500)
• September 20 - Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (b. 1492)
• November 29 - Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England
• December 27
  • George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1484)
  • Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (b. 1502)
• date unknown
  • Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter (b. 1492)
  • Baccio D'Agnolo, Florentine woodcarver (b. 1460)
• probable
  • Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (b. 1515)
  • Margaret Lee, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (b. 1506)
  • Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk, founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda

See also Category: 1543 deaths.

[edit] References

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