1524 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Francis I

  Events

• Formation of the Franco-Polish alliance
• Italian campaign of 1524–25

  Births

• 17 February - Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
• 11 September - Pierre de Ronsard, poet

  Full date missing

• Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, soldier.
• Gilles de Noailles, diplomat

  Deaths

• 30 April - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, soldier
• 20 July - Claude of France, Queen of France, the first wife of Francis I.
• 18 September - Charlotte of France, princess

  Full date missing

• Étienne de Poncher, prelate and diplomat