1558

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

Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s

Years: 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561 1562 1563

• January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise[?] take Calais, the last continental possession of England
• July 13 - Battle of Gravelines[?]. Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont[?] defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes[?].
• November 17 -Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England.

Births

• Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer

Deaths

• October 21 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, humanist scholar
• November 17 - Queen Mary I of England.
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor