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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s
Years: 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 - 1543 - 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548
Events
- February 11 - Battle of Wayna Daga - Ethiopian/Portuguese? troops beat Muslim army.
- 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.
- 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.
- Andreas Vesalius publishes 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' (On the Fabric of the Human Body), revolutionising the science of human anatomy
- Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun
- 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
- Francesco da Milano, Italian composer\n
