1525 | Order of the Parlement of Paris prohibiting the diffusion of the ideas of Luther (February) |
1534 | Affair of the Placards (October) |
1535 | Edict calling for the extirpation of the Lutheran "sect" (January) |
| | Edict of Coucy halting prosecutions (July) |
1539 | Edict aimed at purging the kingdom of the "diabolical" errors of the Lutherans (June) |
1540 | Edict of Fontainebleau, entrusting the repression of heresy to the parlements instead of the ecclesiastical officialities (June) |
1543 | Articles of faith enacted by the faculty of theology of Paris |
1544 | Publication of Index of Forbidden Books (August) |
1547 | Edict of Blois, creating the "Chambre ardente" to deal with heretics as a section of the Parlement of Paris (October) |
1551 | Edict of Châteaubriant strengthening repression and increasing the regulation of books (June) |
1555 | Reformed church of Paris organized |
1557 | Edict of Compiègne, punishing the profession of heresy with death |
1559 | First synod of the Reformed churches of France |
| | Edict of Écouen, ordering the extirpation of heresy in all provinces of the kingdom (June) |
1560 | Edict of Romorantin, transferring the repression of heretics to eccle- siastical tribunals (May) |