* Jakob Jonas ( 1500 – 1558 ): German philologist, jurist, politician and diplomat

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

* 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.

His work at the completion of Pitti Palace, commissioned by Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, is one of his most celebrated achievements ( 1558 – 1570 ), respecting the original style of Filippo Brunelleschi.

* the bronze statue of Venus ( 1558 – 59 ), in the Prado Museum ( Madrid, Spain ).

Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 – 1603 ), played by Miranda Richardson.

Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558 – 1689.

* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1500 – 1558 ), also Charles I of Spain

This legend is found in two sources, Hans Svaning's History of King Hans from 1558 – 1559 and Johan Rantzau's History about the Last Dithmarschen War, from 1569.

The = symbol was invented by Robert Recorde ( 1510 – 1558 ), who considered that nothing could be more equal than parallel straight lines with the same length.

Elizabeth I ( known simply as " Elizabeth " until the accession of Elizabeth II ; 7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603 ) was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.

** MacCaffrey Wallace T. The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558 – 1572 ( 1969 )

* McLaren, A. N. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558 – 1585 ( Cambridge University Press, 1999 ) excerpt and text search

* 1602 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier ( b. 1558 )

* 1500 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1558 )

* 1516 – Queen Mary I of England ( d. 1558 )

* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Karel V, Charles Quint ( 1500 – 1558 )

His plot failed in a matter of days, Jane Grey was beheaded, and Mary I ( 1516 – 1558 ) took the throne amidst popular demonstration in her favour in London, which contemporaries described as the largest show of affection for a Tudor monarch.

* 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer ( d. 1558 )

* 1558 – Robert Greene, English author ( d. 1592 )

* 1558 – Battle of Gravelines: in France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.

* 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.

# Elisabeth ( 24 August 1510 – 25 May 1558 )

During many years of Livonian War ( 1558 – 1582 ), however, they suffered a decisive defeat by troops of Muscovite Russia in the Battle of Ergeme in 1560 and continued living under great threat.

* June 24 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer ( d. 1558 )

Johannes Bugenhagen ( 1485 – 1558 ) – Religious Protestant Reformation | reformer in North Germany, Denmark and Norway ; friend of Martin Luther.

Johannes Bugenhagen ( 24 June 1485 – 20 April 1558 ), also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century.

In 1554 – 1555 the question of the Religious Peace of Augsburg occupied his mind ; in 1556 the conference with Johannes a Lasco, in 1557 the Frankenthal conference with the Anabaptists and the Worms Colloquy ; in 1558 the edict against Schwenckfeld and the Anabaptists, and the Frankfort Recess ; in 1559 the plan for a synod of those who were related to the Augsburg Confession and the Stuttgart Synod, to protect Brenz's doctrine of the Lord's Supper against Calvinistic tendencies ; in 1563 and 1569 the struggle against Calvinism in the Electorate of the Palatinate ( Maulbronn Colloquy ) and the crypto-Calvinistic controversies.

Bugenhagen died in Wittenberg in 1558 and was buried at St. Mary's church.

* 1527 – Hermann Finck, German composer ( d. 1558 )

* March 21 – Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist ( d. 1558 )

In 1558 the first German observatory was built in Kassel, followed in 1604 by the Ottoneum, the first permanent German theatre building.

In 1558 Cardinal Madruzzo granted the privilege of printing Hebrew books to Joseph Ottolengo, a German rabbi.

( quadrupeds, birds, fishes ) folio, 1551 – 1558, at Zürich, a fifth ( snakes ) being issued in 1587 ( there is a German translation, entitled Thierbuch, of the first 4 vols., Zürich, 1563 ): this work is the starting-point of modern zoology.

* 1558, Johann Scheubel ( German )

* Hermann Finck ( 1527 – 1558 ), German composer, music theorist and organist of the Renaissance, great-nephew of Heinrich Finck

Hermann Finck ( 21 March 1527 – 28 December 1558 ) was a German composer.

Russow is most famous for his Low German language chronicle Chronica der Provinz Lyfflandt describing the history of Livonia, especially the decline of the Livonian Order and the period of the Livonian War ( 1558 — 1583 ).

Justus Menius ( 13 December 1499 – 11 August 1558 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, whose name is Latinized from Jost or Just ( i. e. Jodocus ) Menig.

Being a reformer he took refuge at Geneva during the reign of Mary, returning to England and to parochial work after the accession of Elizabeth in 1558.

* 1558 – Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren ( b. 1533 )

* 1558 – Queen Mary I of England ( b. 1516 )

* 1558 – Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1500 )

* 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1500 )

* January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter ( b. 1558 )

* November 2 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria ( b. 1558 )

* July 16 – Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy ( b. 1558 )

** Giulio Mancini, papal physician ( b. 1558 )

* August 9 – Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia ( b. 1558 )

* February 19 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier ( b. 1558 )

* March 9 – William Warner, English poet ( b. c. 1558 )

** Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi ( b. 1558 )

* February 22 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator ( b. 1558 )

* November – Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter ( b. c. 1558 )

* September 3 – Robert Greene, English writer ( b. 1558 )

** Kōriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander ( b. 1558 )

** Dudley Fenner, English puritan divine ( b. c. 1558 )

** Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet ( executed ) ( b. 1558 )

* June – Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai ( b. 1558 )

* February 2 – Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer ( b. 1558 )

Abraham Fraunce ( b. between 1558 and 1560?

# Marie b 1558 Strausbourg

* Hugh ( b. 1558 ), the eldest son, died before his father.