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Events in 1663
| 11 January: |  | The Julian calendar including its New Year's Day is delayed by 10 days. |
| 8 February: | | This Chinese New Year the Tiger makes way for the Year of the Rabbit. |
| 30 March: | | The thirty days of Ramadan in the Islamic year 1073 begin at the first sighting of the lunar crescent. |
| 15 April: | | The resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated Easter Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox as fixed by the Council of Nicaea in 325. |
| 23 April: | | Jews celebrate Pesach for the next seven or eight days. |
| 29 April: | | Muslims celebrate the Conclusion of the Fast on the first day of the month Shawwal. |
| 7 May: |  | The “Theatre Royal, Drury Lane” opens as the “King's Playhouse”, making it the oldest theatre in London still in operation. |
| 3 June: | | Seven weeks after Easter Christians celebrate Pentecost, possibly since 68 AD. |
| 6 July: | | Muslims celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice on the tenth day of the month Dhu al-Hijjah. |
| 11 October: | | Jews celebrate Yom Kippur since sunset last night. |
| 24 December: | | Christmas Eve starts off the holidays celebrating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. |
People in 1663
Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen, Joost van den Vondel, Shah Jahan, Nicolas Poussin, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pierre de Fermat, Rembrandt van Rijn, John Wilkins, Charles Le Brun, Jean de La Fontaine, Andrew Marvell, Molière, Giandomenico Cassini, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Robert Hooke, Jan van der Heyden, Louis XIV, Mehmed IV, André Charles Boulle, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Grinling Gibbons, William III, Edmond Halley and Jacob Roggeveen celebrated their birthday this year.
Presenting 1663
The year 1663 was a common year starting on a Monday, just like 1565, 1571, 1582, 1590, 1601, 1607, 1618, 1629, 1635, 1646 and 1657 in the century before it and 1674, 1685, 1691, 1703, 1714, 1725, 1731, 1742, 1753 and 1759 in the next.
The coloured days highlight
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deaths
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political
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scientific
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artistic and
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historical milestones, and recurring events such as anniversaries and
holidays.
The new
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full
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
Calculating time
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.
URL: < http://4umi.com/year?1663 >, created 23 January 2011, changed 13 September 2012, served 25 May 2013.-
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