* 1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1543 )

A great breakthrough in astronomy was made by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ), who proposed in 1543 the heliocentric model of the solar system.

* February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician ( d. 1543 )

* Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543 ; astronomer ; promoter of heliocentrism

" After reading in the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh a thoroughly annotated copy previously owned by Erasmus Reinhold, a prominent sixteenth-century German astronomer who worked in Prussia shortly after Copernicus ' death there, Gingerich was inspired to check Koestler's claim and to research who had owned and studied the book's only editions prior to the mid-19th century, the original of 1543 in Nuremberg, and the second in 1566, Basel.

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ).

* 1543: Nicolaus Copernicus.

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While its dates are disputed, the publication in 1543 of Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ) and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Fabric of the Human body ) are often cited as marking the beginning of the scientific revolution.

Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ), Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 ), Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) and Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) all traced different ancient and medieval ancestries for the heliocentric system.

The geocentric model was nearly universally accepted until 1543 when Nicolaus Copernicus published his book entitled De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and was widely accepted into the next century.

* Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ) published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, which advanced the heliocentric theory of cosmology.

* October 7 – The first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus ( d. 1543 ) is completed by Bernardino Baldi.

Nicolaus Copernicus had firmly moved the Earth away from the center of the universe with the heliocentric theory for which he presented evidence in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres ) published in 1543.

* 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus places the sun at the gravitational center, starting a revolution in science

* 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his heliocentric theory in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

* 1543 — Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his heliocentric universe in his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Nicolaus Copernicus published a different account of trepidation in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( 1543 ).

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus had already posited that the planets orbited the Sun as the Earth does ; combined, these two concepts led to the thought that the planets might be " worlds " similar to the Earth.

Nicolaus Copernicus published the definitive statement of his system in De Revolutionibus in 1543.

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543 was the first mathematically predictive heliocentric model of a planetary system.

* Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( Nuremberg, 1543 ).

Prior to Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed in 1543 that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun.

In 1543 Copernicus ' work on the heliocentric model of the solar system was published, in which he tried to demonstrate that the sun was the center of the universe.

Copernicus in De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium published in Nuremberg in 1543 challenged the Western religious teaching of a geocentric universe where the sun rotated around the earth.

In his book, written in latin, Copernicus used the Latin name of the town and region-Frueburgo Prussiae Shortly after its 1543 publication, Copernicus died there and was buried in the town's cathedral, where his grave was thought to have been found by archaeologists in 2005.

But Copernicus ' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( published in 1543, long after Novara's death ) records that on 9 March 1497 Novara witnessed Copernicus ' first observation.

His will swept aside the Succession to the Crown Act 1543, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk.

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( 4 March 1484 – 27 December 1543 ) was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

Westmeath was separated from Meath ( often East Meath ) in 1543.

Important naval victories of the Ottoman Empire in this period include the Battle of Preveza ( 1538 ); Battle of Ponza ( 1552 ); Battle of Djerba ( 1560 ); conquest of Algiers ( in 1516 and 1529 ) and Tunis ( in 1534 and 1574 ) from Spain ; conquest of Rhodes ( 1522 ) and Tripoli ( 1551 ) from the Knights of St. John ; capture of Nice ( 1543 ) from the Holy Roman Empire ; capture of Corsica ( 1553 ) from the Republic of Genoa ; capture of the Balearic Islands ( 1558 ) from Spain ; capture of Aden ( 1548 ), Muscat ( 1552 ) and Aceh ( 1565 – 67 ) from Portugal during the Indian Ocean expeditions ; among others.

In 1543, Vesalius conducted a public dissection of the body of Jakob Karrer von Gebweiler, a notorious felon from the city of Basel, Switzerland.

In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to help publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica ( On the fabric of the human body ), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which most believe was illustrated by Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar, though others believe was illustrated by different artists working in the studio of Titian, and not from Van Calcar himself.

Holbein's final portrait of Henry, dating from 1543 and perhaps completed by others, depicts the king with a group of barber surgeons.,

The area was under the authority of a short-lived Audiencia of Panama from 1538 to 1543, when most of Central America was placed under a new Audiencia of Guatemala.

* James Hamilton, Earl of Arran ( c. 1517 – 1575 ) ( from 8 February 1548, Duke of Châtelherault ) was Governor and Protector of the Kingdom ( 3 January 1543 – 12 April 1554 ) for Mary, Queen of Scots.

In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy ; in 1543, it fell to the emperor Charles V. As capital of the so-called " Kwartier van Veluwe " it joined the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and became part of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands in 1585.

Baccio D ' Agnolo ( 19 May 1462 – 6 March 1543 ), born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence.

The next revision was the Six Articles in 1539 which swung away from all reformed positions, and the King's Book in 1543 which re-established almost in full the familiar Catholic doctrines.

In September 1543 new arms, clothes and other equipment arrived from Peru on the ship Santiaguillo ; thanks to these new supplies, Valdivia was in the position to start the rebuilding of Santiago and to send an expedition, led by Juan Bohon, to explore and populate the northern region of Chile.

* Magnus I, Duke of Lauenburg ( 1470 – 1543 ), Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg from the Ascanian House

Built within the north porch of the mansion is a block from the original Nonsuch Palace that bears an inscription which means " 1543 Henry VIII in the 35th year of His reign.

In notes dating from 1525 to 1543 he identifies twelve paintings and one drawing as by Giorgione, of which five of the paintings are identified virtually unanimously with surviving works by art historians: The Tempest, The Three Philosophers, Sleeping Venus, Boy with an Arrow, and Shepherd with a Flute ( not all accept the last as by Giorgione however ).