1543
Years:
1540
1541
1542
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1543
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1544
1545
1546
Decades
:
1510s
1520s
1530s
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1540s
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1550s
1560s
1570s
Centuries
:
15th century
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16th century
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17th century
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Events
February 11
- Battle of Wayna Daga -
Ethiopian
/
Portugese
? troops defeat the armies of
Adal
and the
Ottoman Empire
.
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
Portugese
Indians in Spanish colonies are announced free against the wish of local settlers
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Science
Andreas Vesalius
publishes
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
(
On the Fabric of the Human Body
), revolutionising the science of human
anatomy
Copernicus
-
De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium
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Births
Tokugawa Ieyasu
,
Japanese
shogun
and founder of
Tokugawa shogunate
Sonam Gyrso, who will become
Tibet's
3rd Dalai Lama
Buddhism
Federigo Zuccaro
, Italian painter
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Deaths
February 11
- Ahmed Gran, sultan of
Adal
.
May 24
-
Nicolaus Copernicus
, Polish astronomer
July 19
-
Mary Boleyn
, former
mistress
to both
Francis I of France
and
Henry VIII of England
.
Francesco da Milano
, Italian composer