History
1543 
World
General
Population: 494 Million*- Entertainment: Writers include Martin Luther On Jews and their Lives
Art includes Titian "Ecce Homo" - Medicine: First accurate anatomical drawings done by Vesalius - publishes On the Structure of the Human Body
Fracastoro expounds germ theory of disease and communicability - Religion: Index liborum prohibitorum issued by Pope Paul III (list of banned books)
Death of Anabaptist Melchior Hoffman - followers revolted - people equate Anabaptists with terrorists - Jan Beukels leads Anabaptists - Science: Copernicus' work "De Revolutionibus Orbitum Coelestium" released on death
- Deaths: Nicholaus Copernicus, Composer Ludwig Senfl, Poet Agnolo Firenzulo, Artist Hans Holbein the Younger, Theologian Johann Eck, Religious author Sebastian Franck, Anabaptist Melchior Hoffman
Africa
- East: Drought at horn of AFR begins 19 years
- Ethiopia: Portuguese defeat Ethiopian Muslims
Americas
- North America: Oil found in Texas by Spaniard Luis de Moscoso
Asia
- India: End of famine
- Japan: Portuguese land in Japan and bring firearms after blown off course
Europe
- England: Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr (twice widowed) – sixth queen who survives him
Alliance with Charles V - France: Benvenuto Cellini creates saltcellar for Francis I of France
- German States: Munster under siege from Catholics as Anabaptists revolt
- Holy Roman Empire: Spanish navigator and mechanician Blasco da Garay submits to Charles V the design for a steamboat
- Spain: Philip of Spain marries Maria of Portugal
First Protestants burned at the stake by Spanish Inquisition
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