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Calendar year
May:
Nicolaus Copernicus .
Year 1543 (
MDXLIII ) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar . It is one of the years sometimes referred to as an "
Annus mirabilis " because of its significant publications in science, considered the start of the
Scientific Revolution .
Events
January–March
January 3 –
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran , is selected as the Regent for the infant Mary Queen of Scots.
January 4 –
Andrea Centurione Pietrasanta begins a two-year term as the new
Doge of the
Republic of Genoa , replacing
Leonardo Cattaneo della Volta .
January 8 – The burial of King
James V of Scotland is carried out at
Holyrood Abbey .
[1]
February 11 – King
Henry VIII of England allies with
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor , against
France .
[2]
February 21 –
Battle of Wayna Daga : A joint Ethiopian-Portuguese force of 8,500, under Emperor
Gelawdewos of Ethiopia, defeats Imam
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi 's army of over 14,000, ending the
Ethiopian–Adal war .
March 7 –
Abu Abdallah Muhammad VI is installed as the new ruler of the
Kingdom of Tlemcen in what is now
Algeria , succeeding his brother Abu Zayyan III.
[3]
[4]
March 7 – Massive flooding of the
Mississippi River and the
Arkansas River begins in southeastern
North America over a 40 day period while Spanish explorer
Hernando DeSoto and his team are passing through.
[5] The event is noted by the chronicler of the DeSoto Expedition,
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega .
March 18 – As flooding of the Mississippi continues De la Vega notes that "on the eighteenth of March, 1543, while the Spaniards.. were making a procession in honor of Our Redeemer's entrance into Jerusalem, the river entered the gates of the little village of Aminoya in the wildness and fury of its flood, and two days later on ecould not pass through the streets except in canoes."
[6]
March 20 –
King Gustav of Sweden leads troops in troops crushing Dacke's Rebellion, led by Swedish peasant
Nils Dacke , with defeat coming at the Battle of Hjortensjon.
[7]
April–June
April 23 –
Suleiman the Magnificent ,
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire , follows up on his 1541 annexation of
Hungary by
invading a second time to capture areas that had been taken by Archduke Ferdinand, including
Esztergom .
[8]
May 5 –
Elizabeth of Austria , daughter of
Archduke Ferdinand I , marries
Sigismund II Augustus , King of Poland. Her coronation as
coronation as Queen consort of Poland takes place three days later at
Kraków Cathedral as the Archbishop of Gniezno,
Piotr Gamrat , places the crown of Hedwig of Kalisz upon her head.
May 12 –
King Henry VIII of England gives royal assent to numerous laws passed by parliament, including the
Act for the Advancement of True Religion , restricting the reading of the Bible to clerics, noblemen, and upper class society. The Act will be repealed in 1547 during the reign of King Edward VI.
Laws in Wales Act 1542 , second phase of the Consolidating Act of Welsh Union, is given royal assent, establishing counties and regularizing parliamentary representation in
Wales .
[2]
May –
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ) in
Nuremberg , offering mathematical arguments for the existence of the
heliocentric universe, denying the
geocentric model . Copernicus dies on
May 24 in
Frombork , at the age of 70.
June 4 – Fabiano di Monte San Savinov leads 500 infantry men and some cavalry in an attempt to conquer the
Republic of San Marino , but the group fails after getting lost in a dense fog on
Saint Quirinus' Day .
[9]
June –
Andreas Vesalius publishes
De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body ), revolutionising the science of human
anatomy .
[10]
July–December
July 1 – The
Treaty of Greenwich is signed between England and Scotland (repudiated by Scotland
December 11 ).
[2]
July 12 – King
Henry VIII of England marries
Catherine Parr . It is Henry's sixth and last marriage and Catherine's third.
[11] Princess
Elizabeth attends the wedding. This month, the
Parliament of England passes the
Third Succession Act , restoring the Princesses
Mary and
Elizabeth I of England , Henry's daughters, to the
line of succession to the English throne .
July 25 –
August 10 –
Siege of Esztergom :
Suleiman the Magnificent ,
Ottoman Sultan , besieges and takes
Esztergom in
Hungary .
[12]
August 6 –
22 –
Siege of Nice :
Ottoman Empire and
French forces (under the
Franco-Ottoman alliance ), led by Admiral
Hayreddin Barbarossa , besiege and take
Nice .
August 25 – Led by the Chinese pirate
Wang Zhi , the first Europeans and firearms arrive in Japan in
Tanegashima island in southern
Kyushu including
Portuguese traders
António Mota , António Peixoto, Francisco Zeimoto, and presumably
Fernão Mendes Pinto .
[13]
September –
October –
Landrecies in
Picardy is besieged by forces under
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor , but the siege is withdrawn on the approach of the
French army.
September –
Campaign of Suleiman :
Suleiman the Magnificent captures the Hungarian coronation city of
Székesfehérvár .
[12] The city will be occupied by the
Ottoman Empire for 145 years.
September 9 – Mary Stuart is
crowned the Queen of Scots in Stirling at nine months old.
[14]
Date unknown
Births
Tokugawa Ieyasu
January 18 (baptized) –
Alfonso Ferrabosco , Italian composer (d.
1588 )
January 31 –
Tokugawa Ieyasu , Japanese shōgun (d.
1616 )
February 4 –
Johannes Heurnius , Dutch physician (d.
1601 )
February 4 –
Giovanni Francesco Fara , Italian writer (d.
1591 )
February 16 –
Kanō Eitoku , Japanese painter (d.
1590 )
[17]
February 18 –
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d.
1608 )
February 25 –
Sharaf Khan Bidlisi , Emir of Bitlis (d.
1603 )
March 7 –
John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern , German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (d.
1592 )
April 1 –
François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières , Constable of France (d.
1626 )
April 11 –
George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz (d.
1592 )
May 2 –
Jan Moretus , Belgian printer (d.
1610 )
June 8 –
Petrus Albinus , German historian, local history researcher and poet (d.
1598 )
June 29 –
Christine of Hesse , duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (1465-1486) (d.
1604 )
July 20 –
Nils Svantesson Sture , Swedish diplomat (d.
1567 )
August 3 –
Nicasius de Sille , Dutch diplomat (d.
1600 )
August 21 –
Giovanni Bembo , Doge of Venice (d.
1618 )
September 14 –
Claudio Acquaviva , Italian Jesuit (d.
1615 )
October 21 –
Michael Hicks , English politician (d.
1612 )
November 2 –
Kasper Franck , German theologian (d.
1584 )
November 8 –
Lettice Knollys , English noblewoman (d.
1634 )
[18]
December 3 –
Alessandro Riario , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1585 )
December 29 –
Catherine of Nassau-Dillenburg , daughter of William I (d.
1624 )
date unknown
probable
Deaths
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Nicolaus Copernicus
Hans Holbein the Younger
Gian Matteo Giberti
January 2 –
Francesco Canova da Milano , Italian composer (b.
1497 )
January 3 –
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , Portuguese explorer (b.
1499 )
January 9 –
Guillaume du Bellay , French diplomat and general (b.
1491 )
February 13 –
Johann Eck , German Scholastic theologian (b.
1486 )
February 21 –
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi , Imam of
Adal (in battle) (b. c.
1506 )
March 2 –
John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer , English politician (b.
1493 )
March 6 –
Baccio D'Agnolo , Florentine woodcarver (b.
1460 )
April 23 –
Susanna of Bavaria , German noble, House of Wittelsbach (b.
1502 )
May 24 –
Nicolaus Copernicus , Polish mathematician and astronomer (b.
1473 )
[19]
June 27 –
Agnolo Firenzuola , Italian poet (b.
1493 )
July 19 –
Mary Boleyn , English courtier, mistress of Kings
Francis I of France and
Henry VIII of England (b.
1500 )
[20]
August 1 –
Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg , German noble (b.
1470 )
August 29 –
Maria of Jülich-Berg , German duchess, Spouse of John III, Duke of Cleves (b.
1491 )
September 2 – Sultan
Quli Qutb Mulk , founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda (b.
1470 )
September 20 –
Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (b.
1492 )
September 23 –
Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg , countess regnant of Neuchatel (b.
1485 )
November 29 –
Hans Holbein the Younger , German artist, active in England
[21]
December 27 –
George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b.
1484 )
December 29 –
Maria Salviati , Italian noble (b.
1499 )
December 30 –
Gian Matteo Giberti , Italian Catholic bishop (b.
1495 )
date unknown
probable
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