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)