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1538 in France

list of events

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ21187074 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events from the year 1538 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch – Francis I

Events

June 18 – Truce of Nice: Peace is declared between Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France.

Births

July 25 – Diane de France, duchess (d.1619)

Full date missing

Guillaume de Baillou, physician (d.1616)

Nicolas Barnaud, writer, physician and alchemist (d.1604)

François de Bar, monk and scholar (d.1606)

Amadis Jamyn, poet (d.1593)

Deaths

October – Maistre Jhan, composer (b.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1538 in France” as list of events. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1538, 1619, 1616, 1604—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where France, list and events can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as list of events. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21187074. The first chronological checks are 1538, 1619, 1616 and 1604.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1538 in France” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.