Catherine de' Medici
1519–1589 · Person
Florentine-born queen and regent of France; dominated French politics through the Wars of Religion as mother of three kings.
On these timelines: France, Women in history, Master, People, Italy (post-476 CE)
More from France
- Storming of the Bastille (1789)
- Fall of France (1940)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Napoleon crowned Emperor (1804)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
Around 1519
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Death of Henry VIII (1547)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Council of Trent (1545)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Michelangelo (1475)