1658

	1658 by topic:
	Arts and Science
	Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
	Lists of leaders
	Colonial governors - State leaders
	Birth and death categories
	Births - Deaths
	Establishments and disestablishments categories
	Establishments - Disestablishments
	Works category
	Works
	v; d; e;

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s – 1650s – 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years:	1655 1656 1657 – 1658 – 1659 1660 1661

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

This article is about the year 1658.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1658

Year 1658 (MDCLVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London.
February 6 – Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea.
February 26 – The peace between Sweden and Denmark is concluded in Roskilde by the Treaty of Roskilde, under which Denmark is forced to cede significant territory.
March 22 – The ship Waeckende Boey is wrecked on the coast of Java; the 4 survivors walk overland to Jepara.
May 1 – Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus are published by Thomas Browne.
June – Battle of the Dunes: Spain is defeated by the French and English. England is then given Dunkirk for their assistance in the win.

July – Sarhuda's Manchu fleet annihilates Onufriy Stepanov's Russian flotilla on the Amur.
September 3 – Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

France joins England in the war against Spain, which began in 1654.
Portuguese traders are expelled from Ceylon by Dutch invaders.
After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
The Dutch in the Cape Colony start to import slaves from India and South-East Asia (later from Madagascar).

January 7 – Theophilus Eaton, Connecticut colonist (b. 1590)
January 13 – Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
April 7 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
April 19 – Kirsten Munk, second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (b. 1598)
April 29 – John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
September 3 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1599)
September 22 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
October 23 – Thomas Pride, parliamentarian general in the English Civil War
November 4 – Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
November 6 – Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (b. 1606)
November 8 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
December 6 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)

1658 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works
v d e