Henry IV of France
1553–1610 · Person
First Bourbon king; converted to Catholicism ("Paris is worth a Mass") to end the Wars of Religion; issued the Edict of Nantes; assassinated 1610.
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More from France
- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)
Around 1553
- The Reformation (1517)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- Edo period (1603)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)