1563

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

1563 in various 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) 4260 or 4053 — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4261 or 4054
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	Eiroku6 (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

January–March

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January 2 (January 2, 1562 O.S., January 11, 1563 N.S.) – The convocation of bishops and clerics of the Church of England is opened at St Paul's CathedralinLondon by the Dean of the Arches, Robert Weston to agree upon the wording of what will become the Thirty-nine Articles, with the assembly adopting all but three of the Forty-two Articles promulgated during the reign of King Edward VI in 1553. The conference lasts for three months before agreeing upon the Articles to be submitted for further modification.
January 25 – In Italy, Instituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, a constituent of the major financial group Sanpaolo IMI, is founded.^[1]
February 1 – Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father MenasasEmperor of Ethiopia at age 14.^[2]^[3]
February 18 – Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated while besieging OrléansbyJean de Poltrot.^[4]
March 19 – The Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'AmboisebyCatherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France, having been negotiated between the Huguenot Louis, Prince of Condé, and Anne, duc de Montmorency, Constable of France. It accords some toleration to the Huguenots, especially to aristocrats.^[5] It officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion,^[6] and the combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havre.^[7]

April–June

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April 5 – The English galleon ship HMS Grehound strikes a sandbar off of the coast of Rye, East Sussex and sinks with all hands in the English Channel, including the Admiral of the Narrow Seas, John Malyn.^[8]
April 10 – Royal assent is given by Queen Elizabeth of England to parliamentary approval of multiple laws, including the Highways Act 1562 (requiring all householders in a parish to provide six days labor per year on building highways); the Poor Act 1562 (providing for fines for persons who refuse to contribute to a fund for relief of the poor); the Supremacy of the Crown Act 1562 (making refusal to swear allegiance to the monarch punishable as treason); and the Witchcraft Act 1562 (limiting the death penalty for witchcraft to cases where a defendant caused another person's death)
April 23 – The cornerstone is laid for the construction of El Escorial, the royal palace for the monarch of Spain.^[9] Construction will not be finished for 21 more years, with completion on September 13, 1584.
May 5 (3rd day of 4th month, Eiroku6) – The Battle of Yudokoru takes place in Japan at the Inaba Province (now the eastern Tottori Prefecture) as Takanobu Takeda defeats the shogun Toyokazu Yamana
May 25 – Elizabeth College, Guernsey is founded, by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England.^[10]
May 30 – At Bornholm, the Danish fleet fires on the Swedish navy, leading to a Danish defeat and precipitating the Northern Seven Years' War.^[11]
June 4 – The Parliament of Scotland passes the Witchcraft Act, making both the practice of witchcraft, and the act of consulting with witches, punishable by burning at the stake.^[12]^[13]

July–September

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July 28 – The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege.^[14]
August 13 – Northern Seven Years' War: Denmark–Norway and the Free City of Lübeck declare war against the Kingdom of Sweden.
August 18 – Merchants from the Bungo Province destroy the Portuguese settlement in Yokoseura, Japan
September 4 – Northern Seven Years' War: King Frederick II of Denmark, advancing from Halland, takes Old Älvsborg from Sweden.^[15]

October–December

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October 7 – Giovanni Battista Lercari is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa.
November 9 – The Army of Sweden, under the command of King King Erik XIV, suffers a severe defeat in the Battle of Mared against the Army of Denmark, commanded by King Frederik II.^[16] In the battle, near what is now the city of Oskarström in Sweden, the Swedes suffer at least 2,500 casualties. The Swedish Army is able to retreat and rebuild, but the Danes plunder the village of Övraby, which is never rebuilt.
November 11 – The Council of Trent amends existing Roman Catholic canon law to deter unannounced marriages. In order for a marriage to be recognized by the Church, the names of the bridge and groom are to be announced publicly in a chapel during Mass, and registered with the parish priests of both parties.
December 4 – The Council of Trent (which had opened on December 13, 1545) officially closes.^[17] It reaffirms all major Roman Catholic doctrines, and declares the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament to be canonical, along with the rest of the Bible. Chapter 1, Session 24, promulgates the decree Tametsi, stipulating 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.

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