Editing 1543 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Greenwich]] is signed between representatives of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland as part of a plan to eventually unify the two nations under one monarch. As part of the treaty, the two nations agree to avoid war during the reign of King Henry VIII in England or Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland and for another year after both are gone. The second part of the Treaty provides that Mary, Queen of Scots (six months old at the time) will eventually become the wife of [[Edward VI|Crown Prince Edward]] (then 5 years old), son of King Henry VIII. The Scottish Parliament repudiates the treaty five months later.<ref name=CBH1543/>
* [[July 12]] &ndash; King [[Henry VIII of England]] marries [[Catherine Parr]]. It is Henry's sixth and last marriage and Catherine's third.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ian Lancashire|title=Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: A Chronological Topography to 1558|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NCmwCzNmmo0C&pg=PA378|date=2 August 1984|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26295-8|pages=378}}</ref> Princess [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]] attends the wedding. This month, the [[Parliament of England]] passes the [[Third Succession Act]], restoring the Princesses [[Mary I of England|Mary]] and [[Elizabeth I of England]], Henry's daughters, to the [[line of succession to the English throne]].
* [[July 25]]&ndash;
**The first large naval battle in the Atlantic Ocean, the [[Battle of Muros Bay]], takes place off of the coast of [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] in Spain between the French fleet and the Spanish fleet. Although France has the larger force, the Spanish Admiral [[Álvaro de Bazán the Elder|Álvaro de Bazán]] identifies the flagship of French Admiral [[Jean de Clamorgan]] and sinks the vessel. Spain then captures the remaining 23 other ships and takes 3,000 prisoners, while France loses 3,000 dead and injured.
**[[Suleiman the Magnificent]], the [[Ottoman Sultan]], [[Siege of Esztergom (1543)|begins the siege]] of the city of [[Esztergom]] in [[Hungary]].<ref name=Bartl>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3orG2yZ9mBkC&pg=PA59|chapter=1543|title=Slovak history: chronology & lexicon|first=Július|last=Bartl|year=2002|publisher=Bolchazy-Carducci|page=59|isbn=9780865164444|access-date=2013-02-11}}</ref>
* [[August 6]]&ndash; The [[Siege of Nice]] by the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[France|French]] forces (under the [[Franco-Ottoman alliance]]), led by Admiral [[Hayreddin Barbarossa]], begins. At the time, the city is under the control of the Duchy of Savoy and is defended by the Savoyards, assisted by the Habsburg armies of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. The siege lasts for 16 days.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Esztergom]] surrenders to the Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent.<ref name=Bartl/>
* [[August 22 ]]&ndash; The city of [[Nice]] is captured by the Ottomans and Barbarossa after a long bombardment. The Ottomans pillage the city and take away 2,500 captives to be sold into slavery. 
* [[August 25]] &ndash; (24th day of 7th month of [[Tenbun]] 12) The first Europeans arrive in Japan and introduce firearms to the Asian monarchy, as the Chinese pirate [[Wang Zhi (pirate)|Wang Zhi]] escorts [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] traders to in [[Tanegashima]] island in southern [[Kyushu]]. The first European visitors include [[António Mota]], António Peixoto, Francisco Zeimoto, and  [[Fernão Mendes Pinto]].<ref>Noel Perrin "Giving up the gun", p.7 {{ISBN|978-0-87923-773-8}}</ref>
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Little War in Hungary#1540s|Campaign of Suleiman]]: [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] captures the Hungarian coronation city of [[Székesfehérvár]] after a siege that had started on August 20.<ref name=Bartl/> The city will be occupied by the [[Ottoman Empire]] for 145 years.
* [[September 9]] &ndash; Mary Stuart is [[Coronation of Mary, Queen of Scots|crowned the Queen of Scots]] in Stirling at the age of nine months old.<ref>Lucinda H. S. Dean, 'Crowning the Child', Sean McGlynn & Elena Woodacre, ''The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe'' (Newcastle, 2014), pp. 254-80.</ref>
* [[September]]&ndash;[[October]] &ndash; [[Landrecies]] in [[Picardy]] is besieged by forces under [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], but the siege is withdrawn on the approach of the [[France|French]] army.