1563 year

• The beginning of the Northern Seven Years' War (Danish-Swedish War of 1563-1570).
• Turin became the capital of the Duchy of Savoy.
• The city of Rehil was founded.
• Adopted Anglican Creed .
• Apprentice Statute in England .
• 1563-1564 - The lands confiscated in Ireland are mostly distributed on favorable terms to the British military and officials.
• King Eric suppressed the rebellion in Finland, John imprisoned in the fortress.
• The city of Kondopoga was founded by Ivan and Luka Malyshevs (from Karelian - “peasant's yard, repair on the Pong river”).
• Ferdinand's law on the return of the church to all its land holdings.
• The uprising of the peasants of the Lyakhovets parish, Volyn Voivodeship.
• The Teply Stan border guard post was founded on the Nogai Way .
• August 29 - in the Spanish colonies in South America, the Tucuman Governorate was created with the capital in Santiago del Estero ^[1] .

• February 18 - A strong bombardment forced the garrison of the Lithuanian fortress of Polotsk to capitulate to the Russian army. The city was incorporated into Russia .
• April 19 - The printing house of the first printer Ivan Fedorov was launched in Moscow and the first Russian dated book, The Apostle, began printing.

• Khan Kuchum seized power in the Siberian Khanate .
• 1563-1598 - Khan of the Siberian Khanate Kuchum.
• Delhi becomes the seat of the Mughals .
• The Chinese army of General Qi Ji-guan was able to inflict a brutal defeat on the Japanese in Fujian and force them out.
• The death sentence handed down by Khan Suleiman to his son Bayazid was executed on November 28, 1563.

See also: Category: Born in 1563

• Zhu Yijun - Emperor of China of the Ming Dynasty from 1572 to 1620 .
• Guru Arjan Dev - Fifth Sikh Guru .
• Gentileschi, Orazio - Italian painter.
• Dowland, John - English composer and lute player .
• Michael Drayton is an English Renaissance poet.

See also: Category: Deaths in 1563

• May 21 - Martinas Majvidas , author and publisher of the first Lithuanian book ( 1547 ).
• October 22 - Silo, Diego de Spanish architect and sculptor.
• December 5 - Guri , the first archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsky , the holy Russian Church .
• Berlichingen, Gottfried von - Swabian knight , participant in the Peasant War in Germany .
• Glarean, Henry - Swiss humanist: music theorist, geographer, historian, philologist, mathematician.
• Francois de Guise - 2nd Duke of Guise ( 1550 - 1563 ), Earl, then Duke of Omsk and Peer of France, Marquis de Mayenne, Baron, then Prince de Joinville, Grand Chamberlain and Grand Hunter Chasseur of France. French military and statesman during the Religious Wars in France, the eldest son of Claude I ( October 20, 1496 - April 12, 1550 ), Duke de Guise, and Antoinette de Bourbon-Vendome ( 1493 - 1583 ).
• Castellio, Sebastian - French preacher and theologian, one of the first Protestant ideologists of freedom of conscience . The ideological opponent of Calvin .
• La Boécie, Etienne de is a French writer and philosopher, a close friend of Michel Montaigne , who intended to publish his essay, The Discourse on Voluntary Slavery, as part of his book Experiments.
• Majvydas, Martinas - Lithuanian pioneer and writer; compiler and publisher of the first book in Lithuanian . His name is associated with the beginning of the written tradition in Lithuanian .
• Meldolla, Andrea - Italian painter and engraver of the Venetian school .
• Francesco Salviati is an Italian artist of the mannerism era.