1564 in France

Events from the year 1564 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Charles IX

Events

22 June - French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the modern-day United States, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida
Edict of Roussillon

Births

7 March - Pierre Coton, Jesuit
24 November - Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, astronomer

Full date missing

Jean D'Espagnet, polymath: lawyer, politician, mathematician, alchemist, antiquarian and poet

Deaths

19 February - Guillaume Morel, scholar
April - Pierre Belon, explorer
27 May - John Calvin, theologian, principal developer of the system later called Calvinism

Full date missing

Jean de Tournes, printer, book publisher and bookseller
Philibert Jambe de Fer, composer
Jacques Brunel, organist and composer
Jourdan des Ursins, Corsican military officer
Masseot Abaquesne, faience manufacturer
Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard, poet