1509 in France

List of events from the year 1509 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XII

Events

 * April 15 – The French army under the command of Louis XII leave Milan to invade Venetian territory. Part of the War of the League of Cambrai and the Italian Wars.
 * May 9 – Louis XII and his army cross the Adda River at Cassano d'Adda.
 * May 14 – Battle of Agnadello: French forces defeat the Venetians. The League of Cambrai occupies Venice's mainland territories.
 * July 17 – French forces lose control of the city of Padua to the Venetians.
 * August 8 – The French, along with support from the Holy Roman Empire, begin a siege of Padua that would last for months to retake the city.
 * October 2 – The siege of Padua ends with Venetian victory, causing the retreat of HRE and French forces back to Tyrol and Milan.
 * Aft. October 2 – French forces lose control of the city of Vicenza to the Venetians.

Births

 * July 10 – John Calvin, theologian, principal developer of the system later called Calvinism (d. 1564)
 * August 3 – Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (d. 1546)

Date unknown

 * Antonio Gardano, composer (d. 1569)
 * Élie Vinet, humanist (d. 1587)
 * François Douaren, jurist (d. 1559)
 * François de Scépeaux, governor (d. 1571)
 * Gaspard de Saulx, military leader (d. 1573)
 * Guillaume Le Testu, privateer (d. 1573)
 * Valérand Poullain, Calvinist minister (d. 1557)

Date unknown

 * Nephew of Philippe de Luxembourg (b. unknown)