1658
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.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 1658 by topic |
|---|
| Arts and science |
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works category |
|
| Gregorian calendar | 1658 MDCLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2411 |
| Armenian calendar | 1107 ԹՎ ՌՃԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6408 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1579–1580 |
| 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 | 1579–1580 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4758–4759 |
| 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) |
| Javanese calendar | 1580–1581 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3991 |
| Minguo calendar | 254 before ROC 民前254年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 190 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2200–2201 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1784 or 1403 or 631 — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1785 or 1404 or 632 |
Events
January–March
- January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London.[1]
- January 30 – The "March Across the Belts" (Tåget över Bält), Sweden's use of winter weather to send troops across the waters of the Danish straits at a time when winter has turned them to ice, begins. Within 17 days, Sweden's King Karl X Gustav leads troops across the ice belts to capture six of Denmark's islands as Swedish territory.
- February 5 – Prince Muhi al-Din Muhammad, one of the sons of India's Mughal, Emperor Shah Jahan, proclaims himself Emperor after Jahan names Muhi's older brother, Dara Shikoh, as regent, and departs from Aurangabad with troops.
- February 6 – Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt in Denmark, over frozen sea.[2]
- March 8 (February 26 OS) – The peace between Sweden and Denmark-Norway is concluded in Roskilde by the Treaty of Roskilde, under which Denmark is forced to cede significant territory. This led to Sweden reaching its territorial height during its time as a great power.
April–June
- April 15 – In India, the Battle of Dharmat is fought in what is now the state of Madhya Pradesh between rival claimants to the throne of the Mughal Empire. Prince Muhi al-Din Muhammad, the son of the Emperor Shah Jahan, leads 30,000 men in a triumph over 22,000 troops led by Jaswant Singh of Marwar and Ratan Singh Rathore. Despite heavy losses, with more than 11,000 casualties, Prince Muhi, who has adopted the name Aurangzeb, continues toward Samugarh and Agra and captures the throne at the end of July.
- April 16 – In Skåneland, a region recently ceded by Denmark to the Swedish Empire, representatives of the nobility of the provinces of Blekinge, Halland and Scania gather at the Scanian city of Malmö to swear their allegiance to Sweden's King Karl X Gustav.
- May 1 – Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus are published by Thomas Browne in England.
- May 29 – Aurangzeb wins the Battle of Samugarh as Indian Mughal regent Dara Shikoh makes a last effort to defend the Mughal capital Agra.
- June 3 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic of New France.
- June 14 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60) and Franco-Spanish War (1635–59): In the 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 – In the Battle of Rio Nuevo, part of the Anglo-Spanish War, a Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English.
July–September
- July 2 – The Siege of Toruń begins in Poland as troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and of Austria seek to recapture the city of Toruń from a garrison of the Swedish Army. Within six months, the Swedish occupiers surrender.
- July 18 – Prince Leopold of the House of Habsburg, son of the late Ferdinand III, is elected as the new Holy Roman Emperor.
- July 31 – After Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
- July – Šarhūda's Manchu fleet annihilates Onufriy Stepanov's Russian flotilla, on the Amur River.
- August 1 – The coronation of Leopold I takes place in Frankfurt.
- August 5 – Just six months after winning territory from Denmark-Norway in war and subsequent treaty, Sweden's King Carl X Gustav declares a second war against Denmark. By August 11, the King's troops have surrounded Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, while the Swedish Navy blocks the harbor to prevent the city from being resupplied, and begins bombardment.
- August 14 – The League of the Rhine (Rheinische Allianz) is formed by 50 German princes whose cities are on the Rhine river.
- September 3 – Oliver Cromwell dies, and his son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- September 17 – Portuguese Restoration War: In the Battle of Vilanova, a Spanish army, having crossed the Minho, defeats the Portuguese.
October–December
- October 7 – The Netherlands enters the Dano-Swedish War to come to the rescue of Denmark, sending a 45-ship fleet from Vlie.
- October 29 – The 45-ship fleet of the Netherlands arrives at Denmark and begins its counterattack on Sweden's army and navy with three squadrons.
- November 6 – The Mexican Inquisition carries out the execution, by public burning, of 14 men convicted of homosexuality, while another 109 arrested are either released or given less harsh sentences.
- November 8 (October 29 old style) – The Battle of the Sound takes place between the navies of the Dutch Republic (with 41 warships) and of Sweden (with 45) at the Øresund, a strait between Denmark and Sweden's newly-acquired territory, the former Danish island of Scania. The Dutch Republic is successful at breaking the Swedish Navy's blockade of Copenhagen, and Sweden is forced to retreat, bringing an end to the attempted conquest of Denmark.
- November 23 – The elaborate funeral of the late Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell (who had died on September 3 and was buried at Westminster Abbey two weeks later) is carried out in London. A little more than two years later (in January 1661), Cromwell's body will be disinterred and the head severed and placed on a spike.
- December 11 – Abaza Hasan Pasha, an Ottoman provincial governor who is attempting to depose the Grand Vizier, wins a battle at the Turkish city of Ilgin, defeating loyalist forces led by Murtaza Pasha. The victory is the last for the rebels. Two months later (February 16, 1659) Abaza Hasan is assassinated after being invited to peace negotiations by the loyalists.
- December 20 – Representatives of the Russian Empire and the Swedish Empire sign the Treaty of Valiesar at the Valiesar Estate near Narva, now part of Estonia. In return for ceasing hostilities between the two empires in the Second Northern War, Russia is allowed to keep captured territories in Livonia (now part of Latvia) for a term of three years.
- December 25 – Polish and Danish forces defeat a Swedish Army in the Battle of Kolding in Denmark.
- December 30 – The Siege of Toruń ends almost six months after it started, with Poland recapturing the city from Sweden.
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)[3]
- 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, Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar (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, Massachusetts businessman, colonel (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 Governor 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 painter (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, French theologian and publicist (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, Carniolan physician, scientist (d. 1718)
- November 2 – Baptist Noel (MP), English politician (d. 1690)
- November 4 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian 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 – 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
%252C_by_Abraham_van_Westerveldt.jpg.webp)
- January 1 – Caspar Sibelius, Dutch Protestant minister (b. 1590)
- January 2 – Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1622)
- January 7 – Theophilus Eaton, English-born Connecticut colonist (b. 1590)
- January 13 – Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
- February 19 – Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (b. 1612)
- March 25 – Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (b. 1607)
- February 27 – Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1592–1628 and again 1631–1658) (b. 1588)
- March 29 – Bertuccio Valiero, Doge of Venice (b. 1596)
- April 7 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
- April 19
- Kirsten Munk, second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (b. 1598)
- Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (b. 1587)
- April 24 – Francesco Maria Richini, Italian architect (b. 1584)
- April 29 – John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
- May 20 – Bartholomew Holzhauser, German priest, visionary and writer of prophecies (b. 1613)
- June 18 – Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (b. 1585)
- June 8 – Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet, English baronet (b. 1602)
- June 27 – Ercole Gennari, Italian drawer and painter (b. 1597)
- July 22 – Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg (b. 1581)
- August 5 – Gundakar, Prince of Liechtenstein, court official in Vienna (b. 1580)
- August 6 – Elizabeth Claypole, daughter of Oliver Cromwell (b. 1629)
- August 19 – Christine of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Coburg (b. 1578)
- September 3 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1599)
- September 17 – Kaspar von Barth, German philologist and writer (b. 1587)
- September 22 – Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, German poet (b. 1607)
- October 14 – Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (b. 1610)
- 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 7 – Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese warlord (b. 1594)
- November 8 – Witte de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
- November 26 – Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1604)
- November 29 – Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach (b. 1621)
- December 6 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)
- December 15 – Carlo Emanuele Madruzzo, Italian prince-bishop (b. 1599)
- December 20 – Jean Jannon, French typefounder (b. 1580)
- Date unknown: Osoet Pegua, Thai businesswoman (b. 1615)
References
- "killing". Oxford Reference. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- Brems, Hans (June 1970). "Sweden: From Great Power to Welfare State". Journal of Economic Issues. Association for Evolutionary Economics. 4 (2, 3): 1–16. doi:10.1080/00213624.1970.11502941. JSTOR 4224039.
A swift and brilliantly conceived march from Holstein across the frozen Danish waters on Copenhagen, by Karl X Gustav in 1658, finally wrests Bohuslin, Sk'ane, and Blekinge from Denmark-Norway. Denmark no longer controls both sides of Oresund, and Swedish power is at its peak.
- "Nicolas Coustou | French sculptor | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.