1563 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1563.

Events

February 14 – French poet Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard is discovered hiding under the bed of Mary, Queen of Scots. He is executed about a week later.

August – Michel de Montaigne writes a long letter to his father, describing the death of his friend Étienne de La Boétie.

Yosef Caro – Shulchan Aruch (Set Table, also known as Code of Jewish Law)

John Foxe – Actes and Monuments (known later as Foxe's Book of Martyrs)

Richard Grafton – Abridgement of the Chronicles of England

Garcia de Orta – Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India

Pierino Belli – De re militari et de bello (On military matters and on war)

Barnaby Googe – Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets

January 19 – Leonhard Hutter, German Lutheran theologian (died 1616)

January 30 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch Calvinist theologian (died 1641)

Unknown dates

Michael Drayton, English poet (died 1631)

Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet (died 1589)

Pierre Matthieu, French poet and dramatist (died 1621)

Robert Naunton, English politician and historian (died 1635)

Josuah Sylvester, English poet (died 1618)

Clemens Timpler, German philosopher (died 1624)

February – Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard, French poet (born 1540, executed)

May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas, author of first printed book in Lithuanian (born 1510)

August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie, French philosopher (born 1530)

November – John Bale, English historian (born 1495)

December 29 – Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (born 1515)

Probable year – Arthur Brooke, English poet (birth year not known)

Approximate year – William Baldwin, English writer, editor and theatrical director (born c. 1515)

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