1565 in France

Events from the year 1565 in France.

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Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles IX

Events

• January 1 – Recognized as the first day of the year by the royal chancellery according to the Edict of Roussillon (1564) article 39.
• September 4 – The Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands in modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. He later destroys the French colony of Fort Caroline.
• Lycée Alexandre Ribot founded in Saint-Omer as a Walloon Jesuit college.

Births

• October 6 – Marie de Gournay, writer (died 1645)

Deaths

• June 12 – Adrianus Turnebus, classical scholar (born 1512)
• September 13 – William Farel, evangelist (born 1489)
• October 12 – Jean Ribault, explorer and colonist (born 1520)
• c. October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, bibliophile (born 1479)