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Catherine de' Medici

queen-consort and regent of France (1519–1589)

22 dated entries naming Catherine de' Medici, drawn from 14 separate years between 1519 CE and 1589 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Joan of Valois (1556), Victoria of Valois in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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16th century

  • 1519April 13 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian noblewoman, queen consort of Henry II of France and regent of France (died 1589)source
  • 1519April 13 - Catherine de' Medici, queen of France (d.1589).source
  • 1533October 28 – The 14-year olds Henry, Duke of Orléans – the future King Henry II of France – and Catherine de' Medici are married at the Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins in Marseille.source
  • 1533October 28 - Catherine de’ Medici and Henry II, future Queen and King of France, got married in Marseille.source
  • 1547November 12 - Claude of Valois, Duchess of Lorraine, daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (d.1575).source
  • 1555March 18 – François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (died 1584)source
  • 1556June 24 – Victoria of Valois, French princess (died 1556)source
  • 1556June 24 – Joan of Valois, French princess (died 1556)source
  • 1556June 24 – Joan of Valois, French princess (born 1556)source
  • 1556August 17 – Victoria of Valois, French princess (born 1556)source
  • 1559July 10 – Francis II becomes King of France following the death of his father, Henry II. Members of the House of Guise and the new king's mother Catherine de' Medici dispute control over the kingdom.source
  • 1560December 5 – Seventeen-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is widowed by the death of her first husband, King Francis II of France. Her mother-in-law, Catherine de' Medici, becomes regent of France.source
  • 1560December 5 – Charles IX succeeds his brother Francis as King of France, after Francis dies of a severe ear infection at the age of 16. Francis's mother (Mary's mother-in-law), Catherine de' Medici, becomes regent of France.source
  • 1563March 19 – The Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France, having been negotiated between the Huguenot Louis I, Prince of Condé, and Anne, duc de Montmorency, Constable of France. It accords some toleration to the Huguenots, especially to aristocrats. It officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion, and the combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havre.source
  • 1563March 19 – Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France, having been negotiated between the Huguenot Louis, Prince of Condé, and Anne, duc de Montmorency, Constable of France, according some toleration to Huguenots, especially to aristocrats; this officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion, and the combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havresource
  • 1568March 23 – The Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de' Medici and Charles IX make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.source
  • 1572August 18 – Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries Margaret of Valois, sister of King Charles and daughter of Catherine de' Medici, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France.source
  • 1574May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France of a tubercular condition at the Château de Vincennes, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, acts as Regent, until Henry arrives from Poland.source
  • 1581October 15 – Ballet Comique de la Reine, the first narrative ballet, devised by Louise of Lorraine, wife of Henry III of France, and choreographed by Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, opens in its first performance at the court of Catherine de' Medici, in the Louvre Palace in Paris, as part of the wedding celebrations for Marguerite of Lorraine.source
  • 1584June 10- François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.(b.1555)source
  • 1589January 5 – The reign of Catherine de' Medici as Countess of Auvergne ends after 64 years and she is succeeded by her grandson, Charles de Valois.source
  • 1589January 5 – Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (born 1519)source

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