1543
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- 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.