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1558 Historical Event(s)
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.
Who Were Born On 1558?
September 9, 1558
– Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
October 12, 1558
– Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
October 22, 1558
– Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
November 3, 1558
– Thomas Kyd, English author (d. 1594)