Charles Estienne (1504 or 1505 - 1564), the third son of Henri Estienne, was, like his brother Robert, a man of considerable learning. Events January 1 - French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba. ... Events March 5 - Papal dispensation issued for the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon June 27 - Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his fathers command King Alexander_of_Poland signed Nihil_novi act - Poland became Nobles Democracy Poland prohibits peasants from leaving... Events March 8 — Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death June 22 — Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World September 10 — The Battle of Kawanakajima Ottoman Turks invade Malta Modern pencil becomes common in England Conquistadors crossed the Pacific Spanish founded a colony... Henry Estienne, also known as Stephens or Stephanus, is the name of two 16th-century printers of Paris. ... Robert Estienne (1503 - September 7, 1559) , also known as Robert Stephens or Stephanus, was a 16th century printer in Paris. ...

After the usual humanistic training he studied medicine, and took his doctor's degree at Paris. He was for a time tutor to Jean-Antoine de Baïf, the future poet. In 1551, when Robert Estienne left Paris for Geneva, Charles, who had remained a Catholic, took charge of his printing establishment, and in the same year was appointed king's printer. In 1561 he became bankrupt, and he is said to have died in a debtors' prison. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532 - 1589), French poet and member of the Pléiade, was born at Venice. ... Events Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav ) Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Jet dEau in Geneva Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland, situated where Lake Geneva (known in French as Lac Léman) flows into the Rhône River. ...

His principal works are:

• Praedium Rusticum (1554), a collection of tracts which he had compiled from ancient writers on various branches of agriculture, and which continued to be a favorite book down to the end of the 17th century
• Dictionarium historicum ad policum (1553), the first French encyclopaedia
• Thesaurus Ciceronianus (1557)
• De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, with well-drawn woodcuts (1548)

He also published a translation of an Italian comedy, Gli Ingannati, under the title of Le Sacrifice (1543; republished as Les Abuse, 1549), which had some influence on the development of French comedy; and Paradoxes (1553), an imitation of the Paradossi of Ortensio Landi. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... 1913 advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica. ...

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.