1563

1563 (MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1563rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 563rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 16th century, and the 4th year of the 1560s decade. As of the start of 1563, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1560 1561 1562 – 1563 – 1564 1565 1566

1563 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1563 MDLXIII
Ab urbe condita	2316
Armenian calendar	1012 ԹՎ ՌԺԲ
Assyrian calendar	6313
Balinese saka calendar	1484–1485
Bengali calendar	970
Berber calendar	2513
English Regnal year	5 Eliz. 1 – 6 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2107
Burmese calendar	925
Byzantine calendar	7071–7072
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4259 or 4199     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4260 or 4200
Coptic calendar	1279–1280
Discordian calendar	2729
Ethiopian calendar	1555–1556
Hebrew calendar	5323–5324
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1619–1620
- Shaka Samvat	1484–1485
- Kali Yuga	4663–4664
Holocene calendar	11563
Igbo calendar	563–564
Iranian calendar	941–942
Islamic calendar	970–971
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 6 (永禄６年)
Javanese calendar	1482–1483
Julian calendar	1563 MDLXIII
Korean calendar	3896
Minguo calendar	349 before ROC 民前349年
Nanakshahi calendar	95
Thai solar calendar	2105–2106
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1689 or 1308 or 536     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1690 or 1309 or 537

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)
• April 15 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth Sikh leader (A. 1606)
• 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)
  • 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 and composer (d.1633)

Deaths

• February 1 – Emperor Menas of Ethiopia (b. 1559)
• February 24 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
• March 24 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
• March 28 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
• May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas, writer of the first printed book in Lithuanian (b. 1510)
• ?June – Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, English noblewoman (b. 1513)
• 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)