1658 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 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 in England. June 3 - Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic of New France . June 14 - Anglo-Spanish War and Franco-Spanish War : 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 River . 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 . September 17 - Portuguese Restoration War: Battle of Vilanova - A Spanish army, having crossed the Minho , defeats the Portuguese.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. Births January 9 - Nicolas Coustou , French artist January 17 - Samson Wertheimer , European rabbi January 17 - Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset February 18 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre , French writer March 5 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac , French explorer March 8 - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor , British Baron March 23 - Jean-Baptiste Santerre , French painter March 30 - Muro Kyūsō , Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar April 11 - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish peer April 19 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine , German noble April 22 - Giuseppe Torelli , Italian violist, violinist, pedagogue and composer May 30 - Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet , English merchant and politician June 10 - John March , Massachusetts businessman, colonel June 11 - Victor Honoré Janssens , Flemish painter June 22 - Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt July 10 - Luigi Ferdinando Marsili , Italian soldier and naturalist July 14 - Camillo Rusconi , Italian artist July 17 - Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real , Portuguese politician July 21 - Alexis Littré , French physician and anatomist July 25 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish privy councillor July 28 - Roelof Diodati , Dutch Governor of Mauritius August 1 - Pierre Joseph Garidel , French botanist August 5 - Claude Audran III , French painter August 10 - Susanne Maria von Sandrart , German engraver August 11 - Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet , English baronet and Member of Parliament August 16 - Jan Frans van Son , Flemish Baroque painter August 16 - Ralph Thoresby , British historian August 18 - Jan František Beckovský , Czech historian August 22 - John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld August 28 - Honoré Tournély , French theologian September 1 - Jacques Bernard , French theologian and publicist September 16 - John Dennis , English dramatist and critic September 24 - Sir Robert Anstruther, 1st Baronet , Scottish politician September 30 - Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen October 2 - Nicholas Roosevelt, Dutch-American politician October 5 - Mary of Modena , queen of James II of England October 11 - Christian Heinrich Postel , German jurist October 18 - Alexander of Courland , German prince October 19 - Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz October 21 - Henri de Boulainvilliers , French nobleman October 24 - Marko Gerbec , Carniolan physician, scientist November 2 - Baptist Noel, English politician November 4 - Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani , Georgian prince, writer, monk and author November 21 - Johann Gottfried Roesner , Prussian burgomaster November 27 - Tsarevna Catherine Alekseyevna of Russia , daughter of Tsar Alexis of Russia November 27 - Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié December 2 - Sir Thomas Roberts, 4th Baronet , English politician December 10 - Lancelot Blackburne , Archbishop of York date unknown - Elizabeth Barry , English actressDeaths January 1 - Caspar Sibelius , Dutch Protestant minister January 2 - Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet , English politician January 7 - Theophilus Eaton , English-born Connecticut colonist January 13 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier February 19 - Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester March 25 - Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg February 27 - Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin March 29 - Bertuccio Valiero , Doge of Venice April 7 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg , Spanish mystic April 19 * Kirsten Munk , second wife of Christian IV of Denmark * Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick , English colonial administrator and admiral April 24 - Francesco Maria Richini , Italian architect April 29 - John Cleveland , English poet May 20 - Bartholomew Holzhauser , German priest, visionary and writer of prophecies June 18 - Louis Cappel , French Protestant churchman and scholar June 8 - Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet , English baronet June 27 - Ercole Gennari , Italian drawer and painter July 22 - Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg August 5 - Gundakar, Prince of Liechtenstein , court official in Vienna August 6 - Elizabeth Claypole , daughter of Oliver Cromwell August 19 - Christine of Hesse-Kassel , Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Coburg September 3 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England , Scotland, and Ireland September 17 - Kaspar von Barth , German philologist and writer September 22 - Georg Philipp Harsdörffer , German poet October 14 - Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena , Italian noble October 23 - Thomas Pride , Parliamentarian general in the English Civil War November 4 - Antoine Le Maistre , French Jansenist November 6 - Pierre du Ryer , French dramatist November 7 - Maeda Toshitsune , Japanese warlord November 8 - Witte de With , Dutch naval officer November 26 - Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg November 29 - Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach December 6 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales , Spanish writer December 15 - Carlo Emanuele Madruzzo , Italian prince-bishop December 20 - Jean Jannon , French typefounder Date unknown: Osoet Pegua , Thai businesswoman
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