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| 1558 |
| | | Mary Queen of Scots marries the heir to the French throne, who a year later succeeds as Francis II | |
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| 1559 |
| | | A national synod of France's Protestants, the Huguenots, is convened in Paris | |
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| 1560 |
| | | A year after Mary has become queen of France, her husband Francis II dies | |
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| 1561 |
| | | Mary Queen of Scots returns from France to Edinburgh, and to an inevitable clash with John Knox | |
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| 1572 |
| | | A massacre of French Protestants, known as the Huguenots, begins in Paris on St Bartholomew's Day | |
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| 1580 |
| | | French author Michel de Montaigne, in his library tower, produces Europe's first volume of essays – published in this year under the simple title Essais | |
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| 1581 |
| | | The first dramatic ballet, the Balet Comique de la Reine, is presented during French wedding festivities | |
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| c. 1590 |
| | | Royal (or real) tennis is so popular in France that there are now said to be 250 courts in Paris alone | |
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| 1593 |
| | | Henry IV becomes a Catholic so as to secure Paris and the throne of France | |
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| 1598 |
| | | The Edict of Nantes secures the civil rights of France's Protestants, the Huguenots | |
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