1558

All you want to know about 1558

Years: 1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561
Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1558 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
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**1558 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1558 MDLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2311
Armenian calendar	1007 ԹՎ ՌԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-286 – -285
Berber calendar	2508
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	1613 – 1614
- 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
Thai solar calendar	2101
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Events

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.
February 5 - during the Arauco War, Pedro de Avendaño with sixty men capture Caupolicán, the Mapuche Gran Toqui leading their first revolt agianst the Spanish Empire, nearby Antihuala encamped with a small band of followers.
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 I of Scotland 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.
Tobacco comes to France.
The University of Jena is founded in Thuringia, Germany.

Births

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
- François, Prince of Conti (d. 1614)
- Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (d. 1617)
- Robert Greene, English writer (d. 1592)
- Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (d. 1616)
- Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (d. 1599)
- Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, French merchant (d. 1628)
- Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1580)
- Oda Nobutaka, Japanese nobleman (d. 1583)
- Olivier van Noort, first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world (d. 1627)
- Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (d. 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 (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)
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 Cardinal Pole, 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. 1510)
- Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Portuguese poet (b. 1485)

See also Category: 1558 deaths.

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