1565 in France
# 1565 in France

Events from the year 1565 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Charles IX

## Events

* January 1 – Recognized as the first day of the year by the royal chancellery according to the Edict of Roussillon (1564) article 39.
* September 4 – The Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands in modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. He later destroys the French colony of Fort Caroline.
* Lycée Alexandre Ribot founded in Saint-Omer as a Walloon Jesuit college.

## Births

* October 6 – Marie de Gournay, writer (died 1645)

## Deaths

* June 12 – Adrianus Turnebus, classical scholar (born 1512)
* September 13 – William Farel, evangelist (born 1489)
* October 12 – Jean Ribault, explorer and colonist (born 1520)
* c. October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, bibliophile (born 1479)
