September – A Royalist army under the
Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers.
October 3 – Battle of Moncountour: The Royalist forces of Tavannaes and Anjou defeat Coligny's Huguenots.
The trade compact of
1536 is renewed, exempting French merchants from
Ottoman law and allowing them to travel, buy and sell throughout the
sultan's dominions and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports.