1558 - Definition and Overview
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
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
.
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
October 12
- Archduke
Maximilian III of Austria
Robert Greene
,
English
playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer
Thomas Kyd
,
English
playwright
Chidiock Tichborne
,
English
conspirator
and
poet
(executed 1586)
Giovanni Bassano
, Italian composer and cornettist of the
Venetian school
Deaths
April 18
-
Aleksandra Lisowska
, wife of
Suleiman the Magnificent
September 21
-
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
October 21
-
Julius Caesar Scaliger
,
humanist
scholar
November 17
- Queen
Mary I of England
.
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