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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 11 - Battle of Wayna Daga - Ethiopian/Portuguese? troops defeat the armies of Adal and the Ottoman Empire.
- 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
- Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun and founder of Tokugawa shogunate
- Sonam Gyrso, who will become Tibet's 3rd Dalai Lama Buddhism
- Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter
Deaths
- February 11 - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal.
- May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
- July 19 - Mary Boleyn, former mistress to both Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England.
- Francesco da Milano, Italian composer
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