1573 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles IX

Events

• Apr 30 - The spire of Beauvais Cathedral, France, which made it the tallest human-made monument in the world at the time, collapses

Births

Full date missing

• Mathurin Régnier, satirist
• Catherine of Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont
• François Annibal d'Estrées, diplomat and Marshal of France

Deaths

Full date missing

• Gilles Garnier, hermit
• Jacques Besson, inventor, mathematician and philosopher
• Michel de l'Hôpital, statesman
• Firmin Lebel, composer and choir director
• Étienne Jodelle, poet and dramatist