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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1543.
Events
- unknown date – In France:
- The Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris issues its first Index of prohibited (religious) books.
- Guillaume Rouillé sets up as a bookseller in Lyon.
New books
Prose
- Mikael Agricola – Abckiria (first book printed in Finnish)
- Nicolaus Copernicus – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)
- Martin Luther – Vom Schem Hamphoras
- Fernán Pérez de Oliva, completed by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar – Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre
- Andreas Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body, in Seven Books)
- Benefizio della Morte di Cristo ("The Benefit of Christ's Death", attributed to Aonio Paleario)
Drama
- Lodovico Dolce – Hecuba
Poetry
- See 1543 in poetry
Births
- February 4 – Giovanni Francesco Fara, Sardinian historian, geographer and clergyman
- February 25 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, politician, historian and poet (died 1603)
- November 2 – Kasper Franck, German theologian (died 1584)
- Unknown dates
- Louis Bellaud, Occitan language writer and poet (died 1588)
- Thomas Deloney, silk weaver and writer (died in or before 1600 in literature)
- Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech historiographer, translator and poet (died 1614)
- Thomas Twyne, Elizabethan translator and physician (died 1613)
- Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian poet (died 1593)
Deaths
- May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)
- July 19 – Berthold of Chiemsee, German theologian (born 1465)
- Unknown date – Jan Dubčanský ze Zdenína, Moravian nobleman, printer of Moravia's first Czech-language book (born 1490)