1564 in France
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Events from the year 1564 in France.
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Incumbents
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 (died 1626)
- 24 November – Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, astronomer (died 1647)
Full date missing
- Jean D'Espagnet, polymath: lawyer, politician, mathematician, alchemist, antiquarian and poet (died c.1637)
Deaths
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- 19 February – Guillaume Morel, scholar (born 1505)
- April – Pierre Belon, explorer (born 1517)
- 27 May – John Calvin, theologian, principal developer of the system later called Calvinism (born 1509)[2]
Full date missing
- Jean de Tournes, printer, book publisher and bookseller (born 1504)
- Philibert Jambe de Fer, composer (fl. 1548)
- Jacques Brunel, organist and composer
- Jourdan des Ursins, Corsican military officer (born 1500)
- Masseot Abaquesne, faience manufacturer (born c.1500)
- Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard, poet (b.1540)[3]
