Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1655 1656 1657 – 1658 – 1659 1660 1661

1658 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1658 (MDCLVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1658 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1658

[edit] January–June

• January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London.
• February 6 – Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea.
• February 26 – The peace between Sweden and Denmark is concluded in Roskilde by the Treaty of Roskilde, under which Denmark is forced to cede significant territory.
• March 22 – The ship Waeckende Boey is wrecked on the coast of Java; the 4 survivors walk overland to Jepara.
• May 1 – Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus are published by Thomas Browne.
• June – Battle of the Dunes: Spain is defeated by the French and English. England is then given Dunkirk for their assistance in the win.

[edit] July–December

• July – Sarhuda's Manchu fleet annihilates Onufriy Stepanov's Russian flotilla on the Amur.
• September 3 – Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

[edit] Undated

• France joins England in the war against Spain, which began in 1654.
• Portuguese traders are expelled from Ceylon by Dutch invaders.
• After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
• The Dutch in the Cape Colony start to import slaves from India and South-East Asia (later from Madagascar).

[edit] Births

1658 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1658 MDCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2411
Armenian calendar	1107 ԹՎ ՌՃԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-186 – -185
Berber calendar	2608
Buddhist calendar	2202
Burmese calendar	1020
Byzantine calendar	7166 – 7167
Chinese calendar	丁酉年十一月廿八日 (4294/4354-11-28) — to — 戊戌年十二月初八日 (4295/4355-12-8)
Coptic calendar	1374 – 1375
Ethiopian calendar	1650 – 1651
Hebrew calendar	5418 – 5419
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1713 – 1714
- Shaka Samvat	1580 – 1581
- Kali Yuga	4759 – 4760
Holocene calendar	11658
Iranian calendar	1036 – 1037
Islamic calendar	1068 – 1069
Japanese calendar	Meireki 4Manji 1 (万治元年)
Korean calendar	3991
Thai solar calendar	2201
v • d • e

• February 18 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
• March 5 – Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
• April 19 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
• April 22 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)
• July 25 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
• October 5 – Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
• October 19 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
• unknown – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (d. 1713)

See also Category:1658 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 7 – Theophilus Eaton, Connecticut colonist (b. 1590)
• January 13 – Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
• April 7 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
• April 19 – Kirsten Munk, second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (b. 1598)
• April 29 – John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
• September 3 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1599)
• September 22 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
• November 4 – Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
• November 6 – Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (b. 1606)
• November 8 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
• December 6 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)

See also Category:1658 deaths.