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Birth 1558 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 1558
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1558
Years:
1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561 |
Decades:
1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s |
Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
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1558 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1558
MDLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita |
2311 |
| Armenian calendar |
1007
ԹՎ ՌԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-286 – -285 |
| Berber calendar |
2508 |
| Buddhist calendar |
2102 |
| Burmese calendar |
920 |
| Byzantine calendar |
7066 – 7067 |
| Chinese calendar |
丁巳年十二月十二日
(4194/4254-12-12)
— to —
戊午年十一月廿二日
(4195/4255-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar |
1274 – 1275 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1550 – 1551 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5318 – 5319 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1613 – 1614 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1480 – 1481 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4659 – 4660 |
| Holocene calendar |
11558 |
| Iranian calendar |
936 – 937 |
| Islamic calendar |
965 – 966 |
| Japanese calendar |
Kōji 4Eiroku 1
(永禄元年) |
| Korean calendar |
3891 |
| Thai solar calendar |
2101 |
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- January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of the Kingdom of England
- January 9 - Geneva becomes independent from the Canton of Bern.
- January 22 - Beginning of the Livonian War.
- February 2 - The University of Jena is founded in Thuringia, Germany.
- February 5 - during the Arauco War, Pedro de Avendaño with sixty men capture Caupolicán, the Mapuche Gran Toqui leading their first revolt against the Spanish Empire, nearby Antihuala encamped with a small band of followers.
- July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
- July 18 - The city of Tartu, capital of the Bishopric of Dorpat, now in Estonia, surrenders to Russia.
- April 24 - Mary I of Scotland marries Francis II of France.
- November 17 - The Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her younger half-sister Elizabeth.
- Tobacco comes to France.
- September 9 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
- October 12 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
- November 3 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (d. 1594)
- date unknown
- François, Prince of Conti (d. 1614)
- Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (d. 1617)
- Robert Greene, English writer (d. 1592)
- Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (d. 1616)
- Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (d. 1599)
- Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, French merchant (d. 1628)
- Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1580)
- Oda Nobutaka, Japanese nobleman (d. 1583)
- Olivier van Noort, first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world (d. 1627)
- Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (d. 1586)
- Tokuhime, Japanese noblewoman
- Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (1593-1601)
See also Category: 1558 births.
- February 25 - Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
- March 24 - Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. c. 1533)
- March 25 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer (b. c.1495)
- April 18 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. c. 1500)
- April 20 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
- May 31 - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
- October - Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (b. c. 1491)
- October 18 - Maria of Austria, queen of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
- October 21 - J.C. Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484)
- November 17 - Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- November 17 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
- December 15 - Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. c. 1485)
- December 28 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
- date unknown
- Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1507)
- Hugh Aston, English composer (b. 1485)
- Jean Fernel, French physician (b. 1497)
- Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (b. 1510)
- Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Portuguese poet (b. 1485)
See also Category: 1558 deaths.
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