1658

	1658 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – 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

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

[edit] Events of 1658

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).

See also Category:1658 births.

See also Category:1658 deaths.