1610 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Henry IV, then Louis XIII
• Regent: Marie de' Medici

Events

• May 13 - Marie de' Medici is crowned Queen of France at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
• May 14 - Henry IV, King of France, is fatally stabbed by François Ravaillac during a parade marking the recent coronation of his wife; he is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Louis.
• May 15 - By the first lit de justice of Louis XIII, his mother Marie de' Medici is proclaimed regent of France.
• May 27 - Regicide François Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève, Paris.
• October 17 - Louis XIII is crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral.

Births

• February 2 - Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine
• February 13 - Jean de Labadie, mystic
• April 1 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, soldier and writer
• By July 10 - Louis Maimbourg, Jesuit historian
• October 6 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, soldier
• François Eudes de Mézeray, historian
• Abraham Duquesne, naval officer
• Marie Meurdrac, chemist and alchemist

Deaths

• January 1 - François Feuardent, theologian
• February 27 - Philippe Canaye, diplomat
• May 14 - King Henry IV of France, assassinated
• May 27 - François Ravaillac, assassin of Henry IV, executed