1553 in France

Events from the year 1553 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry II

Events

• Invasion of Corsica

Births

• December 13 – Henry IV of France (d.1610).
• May 14– Margaret of Valois, Queen of France (d.1615)

Full date missing

• Louise of Lorraine, queen consort (d.1601)
• Pierre de Lancre, judge, conducted a massive witch-hunt (d.1631)
• Jacques Auguste de Thou, historian (d.1617)

Deaths

Full date missing

• Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, noblewoman (b.1500)
• François Rabelais, writer and humanist (b.1483 -1494)
• Gilles Le Breton, architect
• Gabriel de Luetz, Baron and Lord of Aramon and Vallabrègues, French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (b. 1508)

See also

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