1559 in FranceEvents from the year 1559 in France.Incumbents Monarch - Henry II, then Francis IIEventsThe Ancient Diocese of Saint-Omer established.BirthsFull date missingCatherine de Bourbon Jacques d'Amboise, surgeon Isaac Casaubon, scholar and philologistDeaths10 July - Henry II of FranceFull date missingMartin du Bellay, nobleman Jacquet of Mantua, composer Nicolas Denisot, poet and painter Pierre Doré, theologian Antoine Le Maçon, translator Antoine Sanguin, clergyman Anne du Bourg, magistrate