What is 1543?
{{Year nav|1543}} {{Year in various calendars|1543}} {{Year article header|1543}} == Events == *[[February 21]] – [[Battle of Wayna Daga]] – A combined army of [[Ethiopia]]n and [[Portugal|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 I of England|Elizabeth]] attends the wedding * [[August 5]] – [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] and [[France|French]] troops under [[Khair ad Din|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. *[[Japan]]ese receive first [[firearm]]s from shipwrecked [[Portugal|Portuguese]] *Native Americans in Spanish colonies are announced free against the wish of local settlers *[[Martin Luther]] publishes ''[[On the Jews and Their Lies]]''. == Births == * [[January 18]] – (baptized) – [[Alfonso Ferrabosco (I)|Alfonso Ferrabosco]], Italian composer * [[January 31]] – [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], Japanese shogun * [[February 15]] – [[Charles III, Duke of Lorraine]] * [[February 16]] – [[Kano Eitoku]], Japanese painter * [[April 1]] – [[François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières]], Constable of France * [[September 14]] – [[Claudio Aquaviva]], Italian Jesuit == Deaths == *[[January 2]] – [[Francesco Canova da Milano]], Italian composer *[[January 3]] – [[Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo]], Portuguese explorer *[[January 9]] – [[Guillaume du Bellay]], French diplomat and general *[[February 21]] – [[Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi]], Imam of [[Adal]] (killed in battle) *[[May 24]] – [[Nicolaus Copernicus]], mathematician and astronomer *[[July 19]] – [[Lady Mary Boleyn]], mistress of Kings [[Francis I of France]] and [[Henry VIII of England]] *[[September 20]] – [[Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland]] *[[Nove