1058

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1055 1056 1057 – 1058 – 1059 1060 1061

Malcolm III (c. 1031–1093)

Year 1058 (MLVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 17 – King Lulach of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and rival Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, who later becomes King as Máel Coluim III.
• September 20 – Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary met to talk about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
• Antipope Benedict X is crowned pope, but is later removed.
• Pope Nicholas II is elected pope in December and started working in the position the following year.
• Boleslaus II takes office as duke of Poland.
• Construction begins on the Cathedral of Parma, Italy.
• Aldred becomes the first English bishop to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
• The Almoravids take over the Berghouata.

Births

• Al-Ghazali, Muslim theologian, jurist and mystic.
• probable year of birth of Godefroy de Bouillon, the main leader of the First Crusade

Deaths

• March 17 – King Lulach of Scotland
• March 29 – Pope Stephen IX
• Casimir I of Poland (b. 1015)
• Saint Alfwold