1558
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This article is about the year 1558.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s |
| Years: | 1555 1556 1557 – 1558 – 1559 1560 1561 |
| 1558 by topic | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1558 MDLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2311 |
| Armenian calendar | 1007 ԹՎ ՌԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6308 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -286–-285 |
| Bengali calendar | 965 |
| Berber calendar | 2508 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Ph. & M. – 1 Eliz. 1 |
| 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 | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1614–1615 |
| - 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 354 before ROC 民前354年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2101 |
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Year 1558 (MDLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- 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.
[edit] July–December
- 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, Queen of Scots, 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.
[edit] Date unknown
- Queen Elizabeth grants rest and refreshment to pilgrims and travellers who pass by the Holy Well Spring, Malvern.
[edit] Births
- January or February – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (d. 1617)
- July 11 – Robert Greene, English dramatist (d. 1592)
- August 19 – François de Bourbon, prince de Conti (d. 1614)
- 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
- Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (d. 1616)
- Kōriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (d. 1599)
- Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1580)
- Olivier van Noort, first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world (d. 1627)
- Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (d. 1586)
- Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (1593–1601)
- probable - Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, French merchant (d. 1628)
[edit] Deaths
- 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)
- September 21 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
- 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 Pole, Cardinal 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. c. 1512)
- Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Portuguese poet (b. 1485)
