1543

Events of 1543

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.

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

January 2 - Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (born 1497)
January 3 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (born 1499)
January 9 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
February 21 - Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, Imam of Adal (killed in battle) (born c1506)
May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)
July 19 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (born 1500)
September 20 - Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (born 1492)
November 29 - Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England
December 27