The first major persecution in Europe, when witches were caught, tried, convicted, and burned in the imperial lordship of Wiesensteig in southwestern Germany, is recorded in 1563 in a pamphlet called " True and Horrifying Deeds of 63 Witches ".

After his return to Scotland, he attended the North Berwick witch trials, the first major persecution of witches in Scotland under the Witchcraft Act 1563.

The Council of Trent ( 1545 – 1563 ) was a major turning-point in the life of the Church.

* Josias Simler's Oratio, published in 1563 and translated into English in 1583, is the basis of subsequent accounts of Vermigli, though it has been amended somewhat by recent studies, especially by Philip McNair's work, Peter Martyr in Italy.

( quadrupeds, birds, fishes ) folio, 1551 – 1558, at Zürich, a fifth ( snakes ) being issued in 1587 ( there is a German translation, entitled Thierbuch, of the first 4 vols., Zürich, 1563 ): this work is the starting-point of modern zoology.

In 13th century Latin work, pica was referenced by the Greeks and Romans ; however, it was not addressed in medical texts until 1563.

His most influential work is De Praestigiis Daemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis ( On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons, 1563 ).

In 1563 Ascham began the work The Scholemaster, published posthumously in 1570, which has made him famous.

In 1563, or perhaps two years later, appeared his great work De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia ( On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles ), which was followed by a large number of scientific and philosophical works of subsidiary importance.

In 1563, he came to Japan to engage in missionary work, and in the following year arrived in Kyoto, meeting Ashikaga Yoshiteru who was then Shogun.

In 1563, della Porta published De Furtivis Literarum Notis, a work about cryptography.

The Spaniards and Portuguese were explorers, the Portuguese to India ( Vasco da Gama ) and Goa where physician Garcia de Orta ( 1490 – 1570 ) based his work Coloquios dos Simples ( 1563 ).

For his successful work Hosius was promoted to cardinal in 1561, returning to Warmia in 1563.

His remarkable knowledge of Eastern spices and drugs is revealed in his only known work, Colóquios dos simples e drogas he cousas medicinais da Índia (" Conversations on the simples, drugs and medicinal substances of India "), published at Goa in 1563.

Arthur Brooke ( or Broke ) ( died circa 1563 ) was an English poet whose only known work was The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet ( 1562 ), considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his famous play Romeo and Juliet.

He was also named Console of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence, founded by the Duke Cosimo I, at 13 January 1563, under the influence of Vasari.

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 ).

Between 1544 and 1563, Ecuador was an integral Spain's colonies in the New World under the Viceroyalty of Peru, having no administrative status independent of Lima.

It remained a part of the Viceroyalty of Peru until 1720, when it joined the newly created Viceroyalty of New Granada ; within the viceroyalty, however, Ecuador was awarded its own audiencia in 1563, allowing it to deal directly with Madrid on certain matters.

The exception was the English occupation of Le Havre from October 1562 to June 1563, which ended in failure when Elizabeth's Huguenot allies joined with the Catholics to retake the port.

It was her first venture into France since the retreat from Le Havre in 1563.

Nonetheless, a full dogmatic articulation of the canon was not made until the 1546 Council of Trent for Roman Catholicism, the 1563 Thirty-Nine Articles for the Church of England, the 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith for Calvinism, and the 1672 Synod of Jerusalem for Greek Orthodoxy.

Calvinism was adopted in the Electorate of the Palatinate under Frederick III, which led to the formulation of the Heidelberg Catechism in 1563.

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

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

John Knox attacked her in The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women, published in 1558, and she was prominently featured and vilified in Actes and Monuments, published by John Foxe in 1563, six years after her death.

The existing 27-book canon of the New Testament was reconfirmed ( for Roman Catholicism ) in the 16th century with the Council of Trent ( also called the Tridentine Council ) of 1546, the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for Eastern Orthodoxy.

The name Nuevo México was first used by a seeker of gold mines named Francisco de Ibarra who explored far to the north of Mexico in 1563 and reported his findings as being in " a New Mexico ".

He studied at Perugia and Padua, was ordained a priest and swiftly appointed Bishop of Cremona, in 1560, in time to participate in the sessions of the Council of Trent from 1561 to 1563.

The County of Savoy was elevated to a duchy in 1416, and Duke Emanuele Filiberto moved the seat to Turin in 1563.

In 1563 Nobuyasu was married to Nobunaga's daughter Tokuhime.

Wilhelm von Brandenburg ( 30 June 1498 – 4 February 1563 ) was the Archbishop of Riga from 1539 to 1561.

While Mary was absent from Edinburgh on her summer progress in 1563, a crowd forced its way into her private chapel as Mass was being celebrated.

Year 1563 ( MDLXIII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Maximilian II ( 31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576 ) was king of Bohemia and king of the Romans ( king of Germany ) from 1562, king of Hungary and Croatia from 1563, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from 1564 until his death.

In September 1563 he was crowned king of Hungary by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Nicolaus Olahus, and on his father's death, in July 1564, he succeeded to the empire and to the kingdoms of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia.

An English translation was published at London 1563, 1572, and 1585.

Teresa's foundations, although welcomed by King Philip II of Spain-who was most anxious for all Orders to be reformed according to the principles of the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 1563 )-did create practical problems at grassroots level.

Anton's oldest son, Markus, carried on the business successfully and during the period 1563 – 1641 the Fugger company which was completely dissolved only after the Thirty Years ' War, earned some 50, 000, 000 ducats from the production of mercury at Almadén alone.

The historian Sarah Macauley notes three outcomes of the courts ' final decision of the Lennox trial :" Their elevation at Court was, as it turned out in 1563, a useful complication in the succession issue.

When his voice broke in late 1563 — the only evidence for his birthdate — he was moved out of the choir and into a Jesuit college, and sometime before 1574 he moved to Rome, where he worked as a composer and as an organist ; he published his first book of madrigals in 1576 ( in Venice, which had a much more active publishing industry ).

Skirmishes broke out in May 1563, before war was officially declared in August that year.

Fighting broke out in 1563 when Suganuma Sada, a Matsudaira retainer entered the Jōgūji temple in Okazaki, and confiscated its rice to feed his own men.