Events

• January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of the Kingdom of England
• 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 - 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 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth.
• Tobacco comes to France

Births

• September 9 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
• October 12 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (died 1618)
• François, Prince of Conti (died 1614)
• Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (died 1617)
• Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592)
• Thomas Kyd, English playwright (died 1594)
• Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (died 1616)
• Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (died 1599)
• Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, French merchant (died 1628)
• Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese nobleman
• Oda Nobutaka, Japanese nobleman
• Olivier van Noort, first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world (died 1627)
• George Peele, English dramatist (died 1598)
• Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (died 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 (born 1498)
• March 25 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
• April 18 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
• April 20 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (born 1485)
• May 31 - Philip Hoby, English politician (born 1505)
• September 21 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1500)
• October 18 - Maria of Austria, queen of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
• October 21 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (born 1484)
• November 17 - Queen Mary I of England (born 1516)
• November 17 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
• December 15 - Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• December 28 - Hermann Finck, German composer (born 1527)
• Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (born 1507)
• Hugh Aston, English composer (born 1485)
• Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497)
• Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (born 1510)
• Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Portuguese poet (born 1485)
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (born ca. 1491)

See also Category: 1558 deaths.

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