1536 in France

Events from the year 1536 in France

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Incumbents

• Monarch – Francis I

Events

• War resumes between Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Francis seizes control of Savoy and captures Turin. Charles triumphally enters Rome following the Via Triuphalis and delivers a speech before the pope and college of cardinals publicly challenging the king of France to a duel.

Births

• February 2 – Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, French poet (d. 1623)

Deaths

• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French theologian and humanist (b. c. 1450)