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1580 in France
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1580
Events from the year 1580 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Henry IIIHenri III, King of France https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG84238 www.britishmuseum.org 5 June 2022
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
September 20 – Honorat II of Savoy, French Navy admiral (b.1511)
Date unknown
Renée de Dinteville - Princess-Abbess of Remiremont (b. unknown)
Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly - French noblewoman and King Francis I's mistress (b.1508)
See also
France History Lists
References
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