16TH CENTURY

16th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1508	10 December	War of the League of Cambrai: Representatives of the Papacy, France, and the Holy Roman Empire and Ferdinand I of Spainestablished the League of Cambrai, whose purpose was to defeat Venice and partition its territory.
1514	18 May	Claude, the duchess of Brittany, was married to Francis of Angoulême, the heir to the French throne.
1515	1 January	Louis died. Francis of Angoulême succeeded him as Francis I.
1524	20 July	Claude died. Her eldest son Francis, Dauphin of France, became Duke of Brittany.
1532		Francis I issued an edict incorporating Brittany into the kingdom of France.
1547	31 March	Francis I died. He was succeeded by his son Henry II.
1559	10 July	Henry II died. He was succeeded by his son Francis II.
1560	5 December	Francis II died. With no heir, he was succeeded by his brother Charles IX.
1572	23 August	St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Protestants.
1574	30 May	Charles IX died. With no heir, he was succeeded by his brother Henry III.
1589	2 August	Henry III died with no heir, thus ending the reign of the Valois branch of the Capetian dynasty. He was succeeded by Henry IV, the first monarch of the House of Bourbon.
1598	13 April	Henry IV issued the Edict of Nantes to end the French civil war of religion.