Events from the year 1564 in France
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Incumbents
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edit- 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
edit- 7 March – Pierre Coton, Jesuit (died 1626)
- 24 November – Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, astronomer (died 1647)
Full date missing
edit- Jean D'Espagnet, polymath: lawyer, politician, mathematician, alchemist, antiquarian and poet (died c.1637)
Deaths
edit- 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
edit- 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)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Charles IX, King of France". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Calvin, Jean". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 7 September 2015.