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Decades:	1520s; 1530s; 1540s; 1550s; 1560s;
See also:	Other events of 1540; History of France • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1540 in France

Incumbents

January 1 (New Year's Day), Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, at the invite of king Frances I, visits Paris for the first and only time and stays for 2 months.^[1]
June 1, Edict of Fontainebleau was issued by King Francis I branding Protestants as heretics and condemned to death.^[2]

August 5 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French-Italian religious leader and scholar. (d.1609)
François Viète, French mathematician (d.1603)

^ Norwich, John Julius (2016). Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the obsessions that forged modern Europe. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-8946-2.
^ "The history of the French Reformation – The Standard Bearer Magazine by Reformed Free Publishing Association | RFPA". Retrieved 2024-10-05.

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