1584 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Henry III

Events

• 31 December - Treaty of Joinville

Births

Full date missing

• André Duchesne, historian and geographer
• Mathieu Molé, statesman

Deaths

• June 10- François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.

Full date missing

• Claude de La Baume, bishop and cardinal
• François Dubois, painter
• Gentian Hervetus, theologian
• Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, jurist and poet
• Pierre Reymond, enamelist
• Paul de Foix, prelate and diplomat