1543

Centuries:	[[15Template:Ordinal/th century]] - [[16Template:Ordinal/th century]] - [[17Template:Ordinal/th century]]
Decades:	1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s
Years:	1540 1541 1542 - 1543 - 1544 1545 1546

Events of 1543

February 21 - Battle of Wayna Daga - A joint Ethiopian-Portuguese forces of 8,500 under Emperor Gelawdewos defeat Imam Ahmad Gran's army of over 14,000 ending the Abyssinian-Adal War.

A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeat the armies of Adal led by Ahmed Gragn.

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.

Japanese receive 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.

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.
Marks the beginning of the scientific revolution

January 18 - (baptized) - Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer (died 1588)
January 31 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (died 1616)
February 15 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (died 1608)
February 16 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (died 1590)
April 1 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (died 1626)
September 14 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (died 1615)
date unknown
- Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladeer (died 1600)
- Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (died 1607)
- Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, first Dalai Lama (died 1588)
- François Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1621)
- Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, rabbi and mystic (died 1620)
- Chen Lin, general of Ming Dynasty
probable
- Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (died 1607)
- Federico Zuccari, Italian painter (died 1609)

See also Category: 1543 deaths.af:1543