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1558
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'''Years:''' 1555 1556 1557 -
1558 -
1559 1560 1561
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'''Decades:''' 1520s 1530s 1540s - '''
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1560s 1570s 1580s
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Events
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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
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July 13 -
Battle of Gravelines (1558) Battle of Gravelines: In
France,
Spain Spanish forces led by Count
Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal
Paul des Thermes at
Gravelines.
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July 18 - 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 -
Elizabethan era begins: Queen
Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister
Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth.
*
Tobacco comes to France
Births
*
September 9 -
Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d.
1602)
*
October 12 - Archduke
Maximilian III of Austria (died
1618)
*
François, Prince of Conti (died
1614)
*
Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (died
1617)
*
Robert Greene, English writer (died
1592)
*
Thomas Kyd, English playwright (died
1594)
*
Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (died
1616)
*
Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (died
1599)
*
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, French merchant (died
1628)
*
Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese nobleman
*
Oda Nobutaka, Japanese nobleman
*
Olivier van Noort, first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world (died
1627)
*
George Peele, English dramatist (died
1598)
*
Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (died
1586)
*
Tokuhime, Japanese noblewoman
*
Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (1593-1601)
''See also
:Category: 1558 births.''
Deaths
*
February 25 -
Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (born
1498)
*
March 25 -
Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
*
April 18 -
Roxelana, wife of
Suleiman the Magnificent
*
April 20 -
Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (born
1485)
*
May 31 -
Philip Hoby, English politician (born
1505)
*
September 21 -
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (born
1500)
*
October 18 -
Maria of Austria, queen of
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b.
1505)
*
October 21 -
Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (born
1484)
*
November 17 - Queen
Mary I of England (born
1516)
*November 17 -
Reginald Cardinal Pole,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1500)
*
December 15 -
Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
*
December 28 -
Hermann Finck, German composer (born
1527)
*
Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (born
1507)
*
Hugh Aston, English composer (born
1485)
*
Jean Fernel, French physician (born
1497)
*
Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (born
1510)
*
Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born
1485)
*
Melin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born
1487)
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