1658

This article is about the year 1658.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1655 1656 1657 – 1658 – 1659 1660 1661

1658 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1658 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1658 MDCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2411
Armenian calendar	1107 ԹՎ ՌՃԷ
Assyrian calendar	6408
Bengali calendar	1065
Berber calendar	2608
English Regnal year	9 Cha. 2 – 10 Cha. 2 (Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar	2202
Burmese calendar	1020
Byzantine calendar	7166–7167
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4354 or 4294     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4355 or 4295
Coptic calendar	1374–1375
Discordian calendar	2824
Ethiopian calendar	1650–1651
Hebrew calendar	5418–5419
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1714–1715
- Shaka Samvat	1580–1581
- Kali Yuga	4759–4760
Holocene calendar	11658
Igbo calendar	658–659
Iranian calendar	1036–1037
Islamic calendar	1068–1069
Japanese calendar	Meireki 4 / Manji 1 (万治元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3991
Minguo calendar	254 before ROC 民前254年
Thai solar calendar	2200–2201

1658 (MDCLVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1658th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 658th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1650s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1658 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London.
• February 6 – Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea.
• February 26 – The peace between Sweden and Denmark is concluded in Roskilde by the Treaty of Roskilde, under which Denmark is forced to cede significant territory.
• March 22 – The ship Waeckende Boey is wrecked on the coast of Java; the four survivors walk overland to Jepara.
• May 1 – Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus are published by Thomas Browne.
• June 6 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• June 14 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60) and Franco-Spanish War (1635–59): Battle of the Dunes: A Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English. England is then given Dunkirk for its assistance in the victory.
• June 25–27 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Rio Nuevo: A Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English.

July–December

• July – Šarhūda's Manchu fleet annihilates Onufriy Stepanov's Russian flotilla on the Amur.
• July 31 – After Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
• September 3 – Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Date unknown

• Portuguese traders are expelled from Ceylon by Dutch invaders.
• The Dutch in the Cape Colony start to import slaves from India and South-East Asia (later from Madagascar).

Births

• January 9 – Nicolas Coustou, French artist (d. 1733)
• January 17 – Samson Wertheimer, European rabbi (d. 1724)
• January 17 – Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset (d. 1678)
• February 18 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
• March 5 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
• March 8 – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, British Baron (d. 1730)
• March 23 – Jean-Baptiste Santerre, French painter (d. 1717)
• March 30 – Muro Kyūsō (d. 1734)
• April 11 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (d. 1712)
• April 19 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German noble (d. 1716)
• April 22 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violist, violinist, pedagogue and composer (d. 1709)
• May 30 – Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet, English merchant and politician (d. 1712)
• June 10 – John March (d. 1712)
• June 11 – Victor Honoré Janssens, Flemish painter (d. 1736)
• June 22 – Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1678)
• July 10 – Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Italian soldier and naturalist (d. 1730)
• July 14 – Camillo Rusconi, Italian artist (d. 1728)
• July 17 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (d. 1736)
• July 21 – Alexis Littré, French physician and anatomist (d. 1726)
• July 25 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
• July 28 – Roelof Diodati, Dutch Governors of Mauritius (d. 1723)
• August 1 – Pierre Joseph Garidel, French botanist (d. 1737)
• August 5 – Claude Audran III, French painter (d. 1734)
• August 10 – Susanne Maria von Sandrart, German engraver (d. 1716)
• August 11 – Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet, English baronet and Member of Parliament (d. 1730)
• August 16 – Jan Frans van Son, Flemish Baroque (d. 1704)
• August 16 – Ralph Thoresby, British historian (d. 1725)
• August 18 – Jan František Beckovský, Czech historian (d. 1722)
• August 22 – John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1729)
• August 28 – Honoré Tournély, French theologian (d. 1729)
• September 1 – Jacques Bernard (d. 1718)
• September 16 – John Dennis, English dramatist and critic (d. 1734)
• September 24 – Sir Robert Anstruther, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician (d. 1737)
• September 30 – Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1729)
• October 2 – Nicholas Roosevelt (1658–1742), Dutch-American politician (d. 1742)
• October 5 – Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
• October 11 – Christian Heinrich Postel, German jurist (d. 1705)
• October 18 – Alexander of Courland, German prince (d. 1686)
• October 19 – Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
• October 21 – Henri de Boulainvilliers, French nobleman (d. 1722)
• October 24 – Marko Gerbec, Physician, scientist (d. 1718)
• November 2 – Baptist Noel (MP), English politician (d. 1690)
• November 4 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Prince, writer, monk and author (d. 1725)
• November 21 – Johann Gottfried Roesner, Prussian burgomaster (d. 1724)
• November 27 – Tsarevna Catherine Alekseyevna of Russia, daughter of Tsar Alexis of Russia (d. 1718)
• November 27 – Tsarevna Yevdokia Alekseyevna of Russia, Russian Tsarevna (d. 1718)
• November 27 – Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié (d. 1726)
• December 2 – Sir Thomas Roberts, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1706)
• December 10 – Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York (d. 1743)
• date unknown – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (d. 1713)

Deaths

• January 7 – Theophilus Eaton, Connecticut colonist (b. 1590)
• January 13 – Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
• April 7 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
• April 19 – Kirsten Munk, second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (b. 1598)
• April 29 – John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
• September 3 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1599)
• September 22 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
• October 23 – Thomas Pride, parliamentarian general in the English Civil War
• November 4 – Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
• November 6 – Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (b. 1606)
• November 8 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
• December 6 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)