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| Years: 1540 1541 1542 - 1543 - 1544 1545 1546 | |
| Decades: 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
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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
- 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 Portuguese
- Indians in Spanish colonies are announced free against the wish of local settlers
Science
- Andreas Vesalius publishes De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), revolutionising the science of human anatomy
- Nicolaus Copernicus - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Births
- January 18 - (baptized) - Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer (died 1588)
- January 31 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (died 1616)
- February 15 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine, known as the Great (died 1608)
- February 16 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (died 1590)
- April 1 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, soldier of the French Wars of Religion and Constable of France (died 1626)
- September 14 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian churchman (died 1615)
- Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist (died 1600)
- Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (died 1607)
- Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, first officially recognized Dalai Lama by the Mongolians
- Cuthbert Mayne, first seminary priest ever executed in England (died 1577)
- Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (died 1607)
- François Pithou, French lawyer and author (died 1621)
- Christina of Valois, daughter of King Charles VII of France (died 1654)
- Chaim Vital, rabbi and mystic (died 1620)
- Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter (died 1609)
Deaths
- January 3 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Spanish explorer (born 1499)
- February 21 - Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
- February 21 - Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, Somali general
- May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (born 1473)
- July 19 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress to Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (born 1500)
- September 20 - Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (born 1492)
- Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born 1484)
- Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Italian painter (born 1492)
- Baccio D'Agnolo, Florentine woodcarver (born 1460)
- Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (born 1515)
- Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist
- Margaret Lee, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (born 1506)
- Francesco da Milano, Italian composer (born 1497)
- Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk, founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda
- Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (born 1502)af:1543
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