1576 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Henry III

Events

• 6 May - Edict of Beaulieu

Births

Full date missing

• Salomon de Caus, Huguenot engineer
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld, playwright
• Bucherius, Jesuit and chronological scholar

Deaths

Full date missing

• Adam de Craponne, engineer
• John III, Count of Ligny, nobleman