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| Years: 1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561 |
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| Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s |
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| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
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| 1558 by topic | |
| Arts and science | |
| Architecture - Art - Music - Science | |
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| Colonial governors - State leaders | |
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| 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 |
[edit] 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 in Thuringia, Germany.
- February 5 - during the Arauco War, Pedro de Avendaño with sixty men capture Caupolicán, the Mapuche Gran Toqui leading their first revolt against 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)