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Historical Events for the Year 1543

• 21st February » Battle of Wayna Daga A combined army of Ethiopian and Portugal named Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
• 7th July » French troops invade Luxembourg.
• 12th July » King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
• 9th September » Mary, Queen of Scots known as Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is coronation named crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

Famous Birthdays in 1543

• 31st January » Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1616)
• 16th February » Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)
• 18th February » Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)
• 1st April » François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières (d. 1626)
• 14th September » Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1615)

Famous Deaths in History for 1543

• 3rd January » Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
• 9th January » Guillaume du Bellay, French general and diplomat (b. 1491)
• 21st February » Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Somalian general (b. 1507)
• 24th May » Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
• 19th July » Mary Boleyn, English daughter of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1499)
• 29th August » Maria of Jülich-Berg (b. 1491)
• 27th December » George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1484)

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