Rulers:
• Caterina de’ Medici, Queen regent of France (1519-1589)
• Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-1569)
• Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603)
• Felipe II, King of Spain (1556-1598)
• Mary I, Queen of Scotland (1542-1567)
Births:
• Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639)
Art:
• Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1526-1593): Estate (1563)
• Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1526-1593): Inverno (1563)
• Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (1563)
• Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Portrait of an Old Woman (1563)
• Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow (1563)
• Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Little Tower of Babel (c.1563)
• Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Tower of Babel (1563)
• Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-1569): The Triumph of Death (1562-63)
• Michelangelo (1475-1564): Disegno per una statua equestre di Enrico II (1559-64)
• Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594): Pietà (1563)
• Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594): Ritrovamento del corpo di San Marco (1562-63)
• Tiziano (c.1488-1576): Danae (1560-65)
• Tiziano (c.1488-1576): Madonna col Bambino (c.1560-65)
• Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588): Autoritratto (1558-63)
• Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588): Ritratto di dama con cagnolino (c.1560-70)
• Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588): Sacra Conversazione (c.1560-70)