1563
This page relates to the year 1563 Calendrier Julien.
Events
America
- August 29th: Foundation of the Audiencia of Quito.
Africa
Ethiopia
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- With died of the Négus Carried out of Ethiopia, the viceroy of Striped Yésahq revolts and is combined to the Turks of Massaoua.
- Beginning of the reign of Sarsa-Dengel, Négus of Ethiopia (end in 1597).
The Maghreb
- Seat of Oran by the Inhabitants of Algiers. The blockade is forced by the balancelles and the brigantins of Valence and Andalusia.
Asia
- Taken Ayutthaya, capital of the Siam by the Burmese . Its inhabitants are off-set.
- Vientiane becomes capital kingdom lao.
- the wakô (pirate Japan board) plunder Nankin.
Europe
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December 4th: End of the Council of Thirty, organizing the Counter-Reformation. 220 prelates sign the final act.
- Plague in Europe.
- the Réforme Strasbourg eoise loses its originality with Marbach which makes it adhere to the Luthéranisme.
- Following the controversy of Heidelberg, the Elector Palatine makes publish by Zacharie Beer (Zacharias Ursinus) and Gaspard von Olewing (Kaspar Olevianus) the Catéchisme of Heidelberg, adopted by Zurich and the majority of the Churches calvinists.
- the capital of the States of Savoy is transferred from Chambéry to Turin.
British Isles
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the “Thirty-nine articlees of faith” reject the theological principles of the Catholicisme by declaring that the writing is the base of the faith and that the Transsubstantiation cannot be checked. The celibacy is not obligatory any more for the clergy. The Parliament requires of any member of the clergy to subject to the act supremacy or to dislocate itself of any benefit.
- a statute of the Parliament entrusts to the Justice of the Peace the care to preserve the prerogatives of the crown against the usurpations of the pope.
- Statute off Bomb disposal experts who regulates the trades. The Parliament instructs the Justice of the Peace with the establishment of the salary scale in their districts. It prescribes to compel people without employment with the agricultural work.
- the private Council orders an investigation into the attitude of the Justice of the Peace out of religious matter (53% are favorable to the changes, 15% are indifferent there and hostile 32% (counties of North, traditionally catholic). The Council carries out the one second purification.
France
- February 18th: François de Guise is assassinated by Jean de Poltrot de Méré with the seat of Orleans. Gaspard de Coligny is blamed.
- After the elimination of the triumvirs, the Protestant chiefs take again place with the Council of in top, beside the two catholic factions.
- March 19th: Edict of Pacification of Amboise. Edict of tolerance and peace granted to the huguenots: amnesties and relative freedom of worship, authorized in the vaults of the lords high-dispensers of justice and the suburbs of a city by bailliage.
- July 28th: The English are driven out Havre.
- Eight French bishops are the subject of a quotation to appear before the Roman Inquisition like culprit of compromising with Calvinistes.
- Henri de Montmorency-Damville (1534-1614) becomes governor of the Languedoc.
The Baltic
- February: Ivan the Terrible, already Master of Smolensk and Vitebsk, seizes Połock, key commercial of Rīga, then walk until Vilnius. The noble Lithuanians claim the union with the Poland. The Russia and the Denmark sign an alliance against the Poland and the Sweden.
- August 12th: Jean III Vasa is imprisoned (fine in 1567) by his/her brother Erik XIV of Sweden whereas it tried to restore catholic monarchy in Sweden.
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August 13rd: Beginning of the dano-Swedish war seven years for the possession of the “straits” (fine in 1570). Denmark, Poland and Lubeck against the Sweden.
- the Protestants of Poland oblige the clergy to take part in the national expenditure and to pay certain taxes.
Art & culture
- April 23rd: Beginning of construction in Spain of the palate monastery of the Escurial (fine in 1584), whose plan is inspired by the martyrdom of Saint Laurent (grill).
- August 9th: the French writer Etienne of Boétie, friend of Michel de Montaigne falls ill. He will die the 18. The disappearance of his/her friend marks Montaigne deeply.
- Arrived at the court of Jean Sigismond of Transylvania of the Piedmontese doctor George Blandrata, driven out Poland because of its radicalism antitrinitarien.
- Russia: Book of the degrees of Macaire (dynastic history).
- the Dieppois draftsman Jacques Moyne de Morgues crunches on sharp the manner of living natives of Florida.
- Paul Véronèse painted '' the wedding at Cana '' (1562-1563).
Sciences & technology
- Colóquios back Simple E Drogas E Cousas Medicinais da Índia , of Garcia da Orta.
Births in 1563
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John Dowland, English type-setter
Death in 1563
- February 24th: The duke of Own way is assassinated by Jean de Poltrot de Méré.
- March 18th: Jean de Poltrot de Méré, quartered.
- August 18th: Etienne of Boétie, French writer, author of the “Speech of the voluntary constraint” or “Contr' one”.
- December 29th: Sebastien Castellion, humanistic protesting French (born in 1515).
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