- Aug 22 Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion (killed 2 days later)
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Aug 24 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces
Gregory I
Gregory XIII
Julius II
Julius III
Leo X
Pius V