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 Media

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  January 30: Swedish troops cross the frozen waters of the Danish straits on foot in the March Across the Belts

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  Jean-Baptiste Santerre

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  John Cleveland a poet who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. "[A] portrait, accounted genuine, is engraved in Nichols's 'Select Collection of Miscellaneous Poems,' vol. vii. 1781, from an original painting by Fuller, in possession of Bishop Percy of Dromore" (Ebsworth, Joseph Woodfall (1887). "Cleveland, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 11. p. 53).

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  Witte Corneliszoon de With

1658 (MDCLVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday 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. As of the start of 1658, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London
• February 6 – Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea
• May 1 – Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne
• September 3 -Oliver Cromwell dies. His son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• The peace between Sweden and Denmark was concluded in Roskilde with Treaty of Roskilde.
• France joins England in the war against Spain, which began in 1654. The Spanish were defeated at the Battle of the Dunes in June. England was then given Dunkirk for their assistance in the win.
• Portuguese traders are expelled from Ceylon by Dutch invaders.
• After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.