1543 Totally Explained

Everything about 1543 totally explained

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

Events of 1543

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 Abyssinian-Adal War.
May - Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in Nuremberg.

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 Khair ed-Din 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.

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 Line of Succession to the throne of England.

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.

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 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)

April 1 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626)

September 14 - Claudio Aquaviva, 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)

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 Caldara 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

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