1558

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s
Years:	1555 1556 1557 – 1558 – 1559 1560 1561

1558 by topic
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Architecture - Art - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
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Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

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, Queen of Scots, 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.
Queen Elizabeth grants rest and refreshment to pilgrims and travellers who pass by the Holy Well Spring, Malvern 1558
The term Soda was coined.

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)
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 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)