1558

Years: 1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561
Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

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
Foundation of the University of Jena in Thuringia, Germany

February 25 - Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
March 24 - Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (born c1533)
March 25 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer (born c1495)
April 18 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (born c1500)
April 20 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b, 1485)
May 31 - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
October - Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (b. ca. 1491)
October 18 - Maria of Austria, queen of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
October 21 - J.C. Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484)
November 17 - Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)
November 17 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
December 15 - Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born c1485)
December 28 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
date unknown

Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1507)
Hugh Aston, English composer (b. 1485)
Jean Fernel, French physician (b. 1497)
Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (b. 1510)
Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Portuguese poet (b. 1485)