1543

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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1 Events

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
Nice is captured and sacked by a Franco-Turkish fleet under Khair ed-Din Barbarossa.
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 announced free against the wish of local settlers

January 18 - (baptized) - Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer (died 1588)
January 31 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (died 1616)
February 15 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine, known as the Great (died 1608)
February 16 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (died 1590)
April 1 - Fran�ois de Bonne, duc de Lesdigui�res, soldier of the French Wars of Religion and Constable of France (died 1626)
September 14 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian churchman (died 1615)
Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist (died 1600)
Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (died 1607)
Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, first officially recognized Dalai Lama by the Mongolians
Cuthbert Mayne, first seminary priest ever executed in England (died 1577)
Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (died 1607)
Fran�ois Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1621)
Christina of Valois, daughter of King Charles VII of France (died 1654)
Chaim Vital, rabbi and mystic (died 1620)
Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter (died 1609)