1558

1558

Years:
1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561

Decades:
1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s

Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1558 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works
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1558 in other calendars
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

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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.
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 half-sister Elizabeth.
Tobacco comes to France.
The University of Jena is founded in Thuringia, Germany.