1563

Year 1563 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1563

* February 1 - Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia.
* February 18 - Francis, Duke of Guise is assassinated while besieging Orléans.
* March - Peace of Amboise: Negotiated between the Prince of Condé and Anne de Montmorency, it accords some toleration to the Huguenots, especially to aristocrats. The combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havre.
* July 28 - The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege.
* July 31 - The outbreak of the Northern Seven Years' War
* December 4 - The Council of Trent (opened December 13, 1545) officially closes. It reaffirms all major Roman Catholic doctrines, and declares the Apocrypha to be canonical, along with the rest of the Bible.
* The official Roman Catholic decree "Tametsi" stipulates that for a marriage to be valid, consent (the essence of marriage) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.

Births

* January - Leonhard Hutter, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1616)
* January 30 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
* March 5 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
* June 1 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
* September 4 - Wanli Emperor of China (d. 1620)
* October 14 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish artist (d. 1633)
* November 8 - Henry I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624)
* November 19 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
* December 19 - Lord William Howard (d. 1640)
*"date unknown"
**Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar (d. 1628)
**Francis Stewart, 1st Earl of Bothwell, nephew of James Hepburn (d. 1612)
**Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire (d. 1606)
**John Dowland, English composer (d. 1626)
**Michael Drayton, English poet (d. 1631)
**Scipione Gentili, Italian legal scholar (d. 1616)
**Anna Guarini, Italian virtuoso singer (d. 1598)
**Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1600)
**Marcin Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1636)
**Zygmunt Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1634)
**Robert Naunton, English politician and writer (d. 1635)
**Joshua Sylvester, English poet (d. 1618)
**Jean Titelouze, French organist (d.

Deaths

* February 1 - Emperor Menas of Ethiopia (fever) (b. 1559)
* February 24 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (shot) (b. 1519)
* March 24 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
* March 28 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
* May 21 - Martynas Mažvydas, author of the first printed book in Lithuanian (b. 1510)
* June 6 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1519)
* June 9 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
* August 11 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
* August 18 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
* September 17 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)
*November - Ioan Iacob Heraclid, ruler of Moldavia (b. 1511)
* December 29 - Sebastian Castello, French theologian (b. 1515)
*"date unknown"
**Odet de Selve, French diplomat (b. c. 1504)
**Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, English noblewoman (b. 1513)