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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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
Science
- Andreas Vesalius publishes De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), revolutionising the science of human anatomy
- Nicolaus Copernicus – De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Births
- January 18 (baptized) – Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer (d. 1588)
- January 31 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1616)
- Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (d. 1607)
- Sonam Gyrso, 3rd Dalai Lama
- Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter (d. 1609)
Deaths
- February 21 – Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
- May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (b. 1473)
- July 19 – Mary Boleyn, mistress to Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England
- Francesco da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)
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