1543

1543 (MDXLIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1543rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 543rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 16th century, and the 4th year of the 1540s decade. As of the start of 1543, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1543 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1543 MDXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2296
Armenian calendar	992 ԹՎ ՋՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	6293
Balinese saka calendar	1464–1465
Bengali calendar	950
Berber calendar	2493
English Regnal year	34 Hen. 8 – 35 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2087
Burmese calendar	905
Byzantine calendar	7051–7052
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4239 or 4179     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4240 or 4180
Coptic calendar	1259–1260
Discordian calendar	2709
Ethiopian calendar	1535–1536
Hebrew calendar	5303–5304
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1599–1600
- Shaka Samvat	1464–1465
- Kali Yuga	4643–4644
Holocene calendar	11543
Igbo calendar	543–544
Iranian calendar	921–922
Islamic calendar	949–950
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 12 (天文１２年)
Javanese calendar	1461–1462
Julian calendar	1543 MDXLIII
Korean calendar	3876
Minguo calendar	369 before ROC 民前369年
Nanakshahi calendar	75
Thai solar calendar	2085–2086
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) 1669 or 1288 or 516     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1670 or 1289 or 517

Events

• February 21 – Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and 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 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
• 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, 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
• November 29 – Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England