Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1558
Birthdays
- September 9 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur
- October 12 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria, (d. 1618)
- October 12 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
- October 22 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
- November 3 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (d. 1594)
Deaths
- February 25 - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
- March 24 - Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
- March 25 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
- April 18 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
- 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 18 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
- October 21 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484)
- November 17 - Mary I of England, (b. 1516)
- November 17 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
- December 28 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
Events
- January 7 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- April 24 - Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
- 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.
- October 9 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
- November 17 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
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