This article is about the year 1543. Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 15th century – 16th century – 17th century Decades: 1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s Years: 1540 1541 1542 – 1543 – 1544 1545 1546 1543 by topic Arts and science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works v · d · e 1543 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1543 MDXLIII Ab urbe condita 2296 Armenian calendar 992 ԹՎ ՋՂԲ Bahá'í calendar -301 – -300 Bengali calendar 950 Berber calendar 2493 Buddhist calendar 2087 Burmese calendar 905 Byzantine calendar 7051 – 7052 Chinese calendar 壬寅年十一月廿六日 (4179/4239-11-26) — to — 癸卯年十二月初六日 (4180/4240-12-6) Coptic calendar 1259 – 1260 Ethiopian calendar 1535 – 1536 Hebrew calendar 5303 – 5304 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 1599 – 1600  - Shaka Samvat 1465 – 1466  - Kali Yuga 4644 – 4645 Holocene calendar 11543 Iranian calendar 921 – 922 Islamic calendar 949 – 950 Japanese calendar Tenbun 12 (天文12年) Korean calendar 3876 Thai solar calendar 2086 v · d · e Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1543 May: Nicolaus Copernicus.

Year 1543 (MDXLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June 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. March – King Gustav Vasa's troops crush the forces of Swedish peasant rebel Nils Dacke in battle, ending the uprising. Dacke escapes but is captured and killed in May. May – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in Nuremberg. Denies Geocentric Model and says all planets revolve around the sun. Copernicus dies on the 24th at the age of 70. 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. Date unknown 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. 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 (this event can be considered as the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.1 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) November 8 – Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and later Countess of Leicester, lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England (d. 1634) 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) 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) March 6 – Baccio D'Agnolo, Florentine woodcarver (b. 1460) 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) Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk, founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda probable Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (b. 1515) Margaret Lee, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (b. 1506) References ^ WNEC