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1558 Calendar

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•  January 7, 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
•  April 24, 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
•  July 13, 1558 – Battle of Gravelines: in France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
•  October 9, 1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
•  November 17, 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

•  September 9, 1558 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
•  October 12, 1558 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
•  October 22, 1558 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
•  November 3, 1558 – Thomas Kyd, English author (d. 1594)