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Historical Events for the Year 1563

• 19th March » The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
• 4th December » The final session of the Council of Trent is held. (It had opened on December 13, 1545.)

Famous Birthdays in 1563

• 30th January » Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
• 5th March » John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
• 1st June » Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Secretary of State (England) known as Secretary of State for England (d. 1612)
• 4th September » Wanli Emperor of China (d. 1620)
• 14th October » Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611)
• 19th November » Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1626)

Famous Deaths in History for 1563

• 1st February » Menas of Ethiopia (b. 1559)
• 24th February » Francis, Duke of Guise (b. 1519)
• 24th March » Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1514)
• 28th March » Heinrich Glarean, Swiss poet and theorist (b. 1488)
• 9th June » William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician (b. 1506)
• 11th August » Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
• 18th August » Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and philosopher (b. 1530)
• 17th September » Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)
• 29th December » Sebastian Castellio, French preacher and theologian (b. 1515)

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