* 1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1572 – Marriage in Paris, France of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.

Bilingual Franco-Turkish translation of the 1604 Franco-Ottoman alliance | Franco-Ottoman Capitulations between Sultan Ahmed I and Henry IV of France, published by François Savary de Brèves in 1615.

* 1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

Although some sources state that Ealdred attended the coronation of Emperor Henry IV, this is not possible, as on the date that Henry was crowned, Ealdred was in England consecrating an abbot.

He enhanced this by bribing the German king Henry IV with 360, 000 gold pieces to attack the Normans in Italy, which forced the Normans to concentrate on their defenses at home in 1083 – 1084.

In 1474, King Henry IV of Castile died without a male heir.

Isabella died in 1455 and Afonso married again ( although not recognized by the Papacy ) in 1475, this time to Joanna of Castile ( known as " La Beltraneja "), daughter of Henry IV of Castile and Joan of Portugal.

This marriage was an attempt to inherit the throne of Castile as Joan was the sole daughter of Henry IV.

* Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias, figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

In 1600, after the Treaty of Vervins, conflict returned between Henry IV of France and Savoy, and Lesdiguières retook Barcelonnette until the conclusion of the Treaty of Lyon on 17 January the following year.

Warbeck was proclaimed King Richard IV in Bodmin but Henry had little difficulty crushing the uprising.

He thus broke allegiance with Philip and assembled a broad coalition including Emperor Otto IV, King John I of England, Duke Henry I of Brabant, Count William I of Holland, Duke Theobald I of Lorraine, and Duke Henry III of Limburg.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.

Some notable collectors were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Henry IV of France and Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, who started the Berlin Coin Cabinet ( German: Münzkabinett Berlin ).

* then to Henry III of Navarre, who became Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.

** Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 )

By the time of Henry IV, bargaining by the peasants for the benefit of the group was the norm.

** Henry III ( 1574 – 1589 )

* Henry III ( 1574 – 1589 )

When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.

** Henry III, 1574 – 1589

** Henry IV the Great, 1589 – 1610

Henry of Navarre was the heir presumptive and now effective King of France, so when he converted to Catholicism he was recognised by both Catholics and Protestants as King Henry IV ( reigned 1589 – 1610 ).

The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal Arnaud d ' Ossat, that resolved the complicated situation in France.

Mindful of the origin of his success, Innocent IX supported, during his two months ' pontificate, the cause of Philip II and the Catholic League against Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ) in the civil Wars of Religion ( 1562 – 1598 ), where a papal army was in the field.

The practice of civilian duelling, with specifically designed civilian swords such as the Italian Cinquedea and Swiss Baselard, became so popular that according to one scholar: " In France during the reign of Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 ), more than 4, 000 French aristocrats were killed in duels in an eighteen-year period ... During the reign of Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )... in a twenty-year period 8, 000 pardons were issued for murders associated with duels.

* 1551 – Henry III of France ( d. 1589 )

* April 13 – Catherine de ' Medici, queen of Henry II of France ( d. 1589 )

** Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France ( d. 1589 )

* September 19 – King Henry III of France ( d. 1589 )

Henry III of Navarre, who was also count of Foix, in 1589 ascended the French throne as Henry IV, and by an edict of 1607 established the head of the French state, along with the bishop of Urgel, as co-princes of Andorra.

Saumur, however, and the Saumurois, for which King Henry IV had in 1589 created an independent military governor-generalship in favour of Duplessis-Mornay, continued till the Revolution to form a separate gouvernement, which included, besides Anjou, portions of Poitou and Mirebalais.

Catherine de ' Medici ( Italian: Caterina de ' Medici, 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589 ), daughter of Lorenzo II de ' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d ' Auvergne, was a Franco / Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France.

When Henry III was assassinated on 31 July 1589, Navarre became the first Bourbon king of France as Henry IV.

* Henry IV, the Great ( 1589 – 1610 )

Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818 – 1881 ), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, became an advocate for and ethnological scholar of the Iroquois.

* Henry Austin ( architect ) ( 1804 – 1891 ), American architect

* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

* 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1993 )

* 1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.

* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter ( d. 1974 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

* 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general ( d. 1795 )