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

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

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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 the summer.
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 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.

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 (these last two events can be considered as leading to the Scientific Revolution.^[1]

January 18 (baptized) – Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer (d. 1588)
January 31 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1616)
February 16 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)
February 18 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)
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)

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)
- William Byrd

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