1564 in France

Events from the year 1564 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles IX

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

 * 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)

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)