* the stone statue Allegory of Winter ( 1563 – 65 ), Villa Medici, Castello

The council was reconvened by Pope Pius IV ( 1559 – 65 ) for the last time, meeting from 18 January 1562, and continued until its final adjournment on 4 December 1563.

The creed was intended to summarize the teaching of the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 1563 ).

* Sebastian Castellio ( also spelled Castello, 1515 – 1563 ), French theologian

Council of Trent ( 1545 – 1563, with interruptions ) addressed church reform and repudiated Protestantism, defined the role and canon of Scripture and the seven sacraments, and strengthened clerical discipline and education. Temporarily attended by Lutheran delegates.

After the occupation and loss of Le Havre in 1562 – 1563, Elizabeth avoided military expeditions on the continent until 1585, when she sent an English army to aid the Protestant Dutch rebels against Philip II.

# Wilhelm, ( 30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, Riga ), Archbishop of Riga in 1539-63.

He secondly married ( 1579 ) Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( October 30, 1563 – 1639 ), daughter of William of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Dorothea of Denmark.

** Charles IX, 1560 – 1574 ( 1560 – 1563 under regency of Catherine de ' Medici )

* Ercole Gonzaga ( 23 November 1505 – 2 March 1563 ), Cardinal, Bishop of Mantua.

* 1563 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian ( d. 1641 )

* 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ( d. 1612 )

John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.

* Jacobite ( dissenter ), follower of Reverend Henry Jacob ( 1563 – 1624 )

After Schlick, a string of composers developed German lute music: Hans Judenkünig ( c. 1445 – 50 – 1526 ), the Neusidler family ( particularly Hans Neusidler ( c. 1508 / 9 – 1563 )) and others.

English written lute music only began around 1540, however, the country produced numerous lutenists, of which John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) is perhaps the most famous.

* 1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader ( b. 1514 )

* 1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician ( b. 1563 )

Notable are those of Martin Luther ( 1522 ), Jacques Lefèvre d ' Étaples ( 1523 ), the Froschau Bible ( 1525 – 1529, revised in 1574 ), William Tyndale ( 1526, revised in 1534, 1535 and 1536 ), the Brest Bible ( 1563 ), and the Authorized Version ( also called the " King James Version ") ( 1611 ).

* 1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer ( d. 1563 )

Rudolf spent eight formative years, from age 11 to 19 ( 1563 – 1571 ), in Spain, at the court of his maternal uncle Phillip II.

In 1563 Elizabeth proposed her own suitor, Robert Dudley, as a husband for Mary, without asking either of the two people concerned.

Kenilworth was restored to Dudley's son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession of Elizabeth I to the throne.

* July 13 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman ( b. 1563 )

* May 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster ( b. 1563 )

* March 27 – Robert Naunton, English politician ( b. 1563 )

Robert Estienne Jr. ( 1530 – 1570 ) began to print in Paris on his own account in 1556, and in 1563 received the title of Typographus regius ; his presses were busily employed in issuing civil documents.

Important composers included William Byrd ( 1543 – 1623 ), John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) Thomas Campion ( 1567 – 1620 ), and Robert Johnson ( c. 1583 – c.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC ( 1 June 1563?

* 1563 Robert Chamberlayne

He was collated on 19 July 1563 to the deanery of Durham, a promotion which he owed to the support of Warwick and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

Further pieces were added over the next century, with Robert Bowes giving a silver gilt cup to Sir John Baker on 16 May 1563.

Sir Robert Naunton ( 1563 – 27 March 1635 ) was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 and 1626.

Robert Armin ( c. 1563 – 1615 ) was an English actor, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men.

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester ( 19 November 1563 – 13 July 1626 ), second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

* 1563 / 64 Robert Jepson John Parr

Sir Robert Naunton ( 1563 – 1635 ) mentions it in his book Travels in England, published sometime between 1628 and 1632: he calls Rye a " small English seaport "; shortly after his arrival he takes post-horses for London, travelling via Flimwell.

* Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ( 1563 – 1612 ), statesman, spymaster and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England

* Pinkerton, Ancient Scottish Poems: Letter from Sir Thomas Randolph to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester dated 15 Jan 1563, mentioning that Lady Flemyng was Queen of the Beene on Twelfth-Day that year.

On the 25 August 1563 Hugh Montgomerie, 4th Earl of Eglinton, and Robert, Lord Boyd, entered into a mutual bond of defence, and the same day the former assigned to the latter his right to the office of Bailie of the canon lands of Cunyngham pertaining to the Canons and Chapter of Glasgow.

According to Turvey, the allegation of Henry VIII's fatherhood originated with Sir Robert Naunton ( 1563 – 1635 ).

* The First Booke of Songes and Ayres, 1600, dedicated to Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester ( 1563 – 1626 )