1543

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s

Years: 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 - 1543 - 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548

• February 11 - Battle of Wayna Daga[?] - Ethiopian/Portuguese? troops beat Muslim army.
• 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.
• 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.

Births

• Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun
• Sonam Gyrso[?], who will become Tibet's 3rd Dalai Lama Buddhism
• Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter

Deaths

• February 11 - Ahmed Gran[?], sultan of Adal.
• May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer