1563
year
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1563 (MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s |
Years: | 1560 1561 1562 – 1563 – 1564 1565 1566 |
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
change- 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
change- 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)