1564 in France

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Events from the year 1564 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Charles IX

Edict of Roussillon

Jean D'Espagnet, polymath; lawyer, politician, mathematician, alchemist, antiquarian and poet (died c.1637)

Pierre Coton, Jesuit (died 1626)

Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, astronomer (died 1647)

27 May – John Calvin, theologian, principal developer of the system later called Calvinism (born 1509).

Pierre Belon, explorer (born 1517)

Jean de Tournes, printer, book publisher and bookseller (born 1504)

Philibert Jambe de Fer, composer (fl. 1548)

Jacques Brunel, organist and composer

Guillaume Morel, scholar (born 1505)

Jourdan des Ursins, military officer (born 1500)

Masseot Abaquesne, faience manufacturer (born c.1500)

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