1558

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s
Years:	1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561

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1558 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1558 MDLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2311
Armenian calendar	1007 ԹՎ ՌԷ
Assyrian calendar	6308
Balinese saka calendar	1479–1480
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 (Fire Snake) 4254 or 4194 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4255 or 4195
Coptic calendar	1274–1275
Discordian calendar	2724
Ethiopian calendar	1550–1551
Hebrew calendar	5318–5319
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1614–1615
- Shaka Samvat	1479–1480
- Kali Yuga	4658–4659
Holocene calendar	11558
Igbo calendar	558–559
Iranian calendar	936–937
Islamic calendar	965–966
Japanese calendar	Kōji 4 / Eiroku 1 (永禄元年)
Javanese calendar	1477–1478
Julian calendar	1558 MDLVIII
Korean calendar	3891
Minguo calendar	354 before ROC 民前354年
Nanakshahi calendar	90
Thai solar calendar	2100–2101
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1684 or 1303 or 531 — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1685 or 1304 or 532

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November 17: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Year 1558 (MDLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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 – The Livonian War begins.
February 2 – The University of Jena is founded in Thuringia, Germany.
February 5 – Arauco War: Pedro de Avendaño, with sixty men, captures Caupolicán (the Mapuche Gran Toqui), who is leading their first revolt against the Spanish Empire (near Antihuala), encamped with a small band of followers.
April 24 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Francis, Dauphin of France, at Notre Dame de Paris.

July–December

July 13 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Lamoral, Count of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes.
July 18 – The city of Tartu, capital of the Bishopric of Dorpat (in modern-day Estonia) surrenders to Russia.
October 17 – Postal history of Poland: King Sigismund II Augustus appoints an Italian merchant living in Kraków to organise a consolidated postal service in Poland, the origin of Poczta Polska.
November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: Catholic Queen Mary dies, and is succeeded by her younger Protestant half-sister Elizabeth, who will rule for 44 years.

Date unknown

John Knox's attack on female rulers, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women, is published anonymously from Geneva.
Queen Elizabeth grants rest and refreshment to pilgrims and travellers who pass by the Holy Well Spring, Malvern in England.
English explorer Anthony Jenkinson travels from Moscow, to Astrakhan and Bukhara.^[1] He is the first Englishman to note that the Amu Darya changed course, to start flowing into the Aral Sea.^[2]

Births

Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria born on October 12

January or February – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (d. 1617)
January 16 – Jakobea of Baden, Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (d. 1597)
January 29 – Paul Hentzner, German lawyer (d. 1623)
March 7 – Johann VII, Duke of Mecklenburg, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1576–1592) (d. 1592)
April 30 – Mikołaj Oleśnicki the younger, Polish noble (d. 1629)
June 15 – Margrave Andrew of Burgau, German nobleman, Cardinal, Bishop of Constance and Brixen (d. 1600)
July 9 – David Origanus, German astronomer (d. 1628)
July 11 – Robert Greene, English dramatist (d. 1592)
August 2 – Herman van den Bergh, Dutch soldier in the Eighty Years' War (d. 1611)
August 8 – George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, English noble (d. 1605)
August 19 – François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (d. 1614)
September 9 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, French soldier (d. 1602)
September 24 – Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, English politician (d. 1617)
October 12 – Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (d. 1618)
October 24 – Szymon Szymonowic, Polish writer (d. 1629)
October 30 – Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (d. 1652)
November 27 – Mingyi Swa, Crown Prince of Burma (d. 1593)
December 3 – Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter (d. 1605)
December 8 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1645)
December 9 – André du Laurens, French physician (d. 1609)
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)
- Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (1593–1601)
- Thomas Kyd, English playwright (d. 1594)
- Françoise de Cezelli, French war hero (d. 1615)
probable - Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, French merchant (d. 1628)

Deaths

Emperor Charles V died on September 21, 1558

Queen Mary I of England and Cardinal Reginald Pole died on November 17, 1558

January 28 – Jacob Micyllus, German humanist (b. 1503)
February 25 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
February 27
- Johann Faber of Heilbronn, controversial Catholic preacher (b. 1504)
- Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, German noblewoman (b. 1524)
March 6 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (b. 1475)
March 24 – Anna van Egmont, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. c. 1533)
March 25 – Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer (b. c. 1495)
April 2 – Wolfgang of the Palatinate, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (b. 1494)
April 15 – Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. c. 1500)
April 20 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
April 26 – Jean Fernel, French physician (b. 1497)
May 17 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (b. 1485)
May 19 – Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña, Spanish count (b. 1494)
May 25 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1525–1540) (b. 1510)
May 31 – Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
June 28 – Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche, English courtier (b. 1506)
July 17 – George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (b. 1498)
August 11 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran pastor (b. 1499)
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 1
- Erhard Schnepf, German theologian (b. 1495)
- Anne Brooke, Baroness Cobham, English noble (b. 1501)
November 15 – Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1515)
November 17
- Hugh Aston, English composer (b. 1485)
- Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- Reginald Pole, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
December 7 – Johann Forster, German theologian (b. 1496)
December 16 – Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. c. 1485)
December 19 – Cornelius Grapheus, Flemish writer (b. 1482)
December 28 – Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
date unknown
- Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1507)
- Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (b. c. 1512)

References

↑ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 247. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
↑ Sykes, Percy (1921). A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Company. p. 64.

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