Today in History for Year 1558

Months in Year 1558: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 7th - Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
Jan 8th - French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
Jan 9th - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
Jan 11th - Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
Mar 5th - Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
Mar 14th - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
Apr 4th - Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
Jul 13th - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
Jul 23rd - Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
Aug 4th - 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
Oct 9th - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
Nov 7th - French king Henri II occupies Calais
Nov 17th - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Mary "Bloody Mary", Queen of England (1553-58), aged 42
Dec 29th - Charles V, German Emperor, buried

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 7 of 7

May 16th - Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)
Jul 11th - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)
Aug 19th - Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian
Sep 9th - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
Oct 12th - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
Oct 12th - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
Nov 6th - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Apr 24th - Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Francois

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 17 of 17

Feb 3rd - Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies
Feb 25th - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
Mar 13th - Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
Mar 24th - Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies
Mar 25th - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
Apr 18th - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
Apr 20th - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
Apr 26th - Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies
May 31st - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
Jun 4th - Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43
Sep 21st - Charles V, King of Spain (Carlos I)/Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 58
Oct 18th - Maria, queen of Hungary/guardian of Neth (1531-55), dies at 53
Oct 21st - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74
Nov 12th - Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies
Nov 17th - Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58
Nov 23rd - Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Neth, dies at 52
Dec 29th - Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31