1543 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1543.Events
Prose
- Mikael Agricola – Abckiria
- Nicolaus Copernicus – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- Martin Luther – Vom Schem Hamphoras
- Fernan Perez de Oliva, completed by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar – Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre
- Andreas Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica libri septem
- Benefizio della Morte di Cristo
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
- November 2 – Kasper Franck, German theologian
- Unknown dates
- *Louis Bellaud, Occitan language writer and poet
- *Thomas Deloney, silk weaver and writer
- *Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech historiographer, translator and poet
- *Thomas Twyne, Elizabethan translator and physician
- *Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian poet
Deaths
- May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer
- July 19 – Berthold of Chiemsee, German theologian
- Unknown date – Jan Dubčanský ze Zdenína, Moravian nobleman, printer of Moravia's first Czech-language book
