1580 in France

Events from the year 1580 in France

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Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry III

Events

• March 1 – Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.

Births

• April 24 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (d. 1660)
• September 15 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
• December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor (d. 1637)
  • Benjamin, Duke of Soubise, French Huguenot leader (d. 1642)

Deaths

• Renée de Dinteville
• Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly