1558

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s

align="center" | 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

October 12 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer (d. 1592)
Thomas Kyd, English playwright (d. 1594)
Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed 1586)
Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist of the Venetian school

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