1536 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Francis I

Events

• February 29 - Francis I seizes control of Savoy as War resumes between France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Turin was captured in the next week or two.
• Charles V triumphally enters Rome following the Via Triuphalis and delivers a speech before the pope and college of cardinals publicly challenging the king of France to a duel.

Births

• February 2 – Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, French poet

Date Unknown

• Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, French poet

Deaths

• February 28 – Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany

Date Unknown

• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French theologian and humanist