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Year '1658' ('MDCLVIII') was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1658

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1658

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 was concluded in Roskilde by the Treaty of Roskilde, under which Denmark was forced to cede significant territory.

★ March 22 - The ship ''Waeckende Boey'' is wrecked on the coast of Java; the four survivors walked overland to Jepara.

★ May 1 - Publication of ''Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial'' and ''The Garden of Cyrus'' by Thomas Browne.

July - December

★ September 3 - Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Undated

★ 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.

Births

★ February 18 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (died 1743)

★ March 5 - Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, French explorer (died 1730)

★ April 19 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (died 1716)

★ April 22 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (died 1709)

★ July 25 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (died 1703)

★ October 5 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (died 1718)

★ October 19 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1704)
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Deaths

★ January 7 - Theophilus Eaton, Connecticut colonist (born 1590)

★ January 13 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (born 1616)

★ April 7 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (born 1595)

★ April 29 - John Cleveland, English poet (born 1613)

★ September 3 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (born 1599)

★ September 22 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (born 1607)

★ November 6 - Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (born 1606)

★ November 8 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (born 1599)

★ December 6 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (born 1601)
'Date unknown'
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★ Kirsten Munk - Second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (born 1598)
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