* 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ( d. 1716 )

* 1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English military and politician ( d. 1658 )

* 1658 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic ( b. 1595 )

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

The Commonwealth ( 1649 – 53 ) was founded on the execution of Charles I in 1649, and was followed by the two Protectorates of Oliver Cromwell ( 1653 – 58 ), and his son Richard Cromwell the first ( 1658 – 59 ).

* 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars ( 1655 – 1661 ), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.

* 1658 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer ( d. 1743 )

* Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani ( Georgian, 1658 – 1725 ).

* 1658 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese diplomat and statesman ( d. 1736 )

* 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.

* 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ( b. 1658 )

* 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet ( d. 1658 )

* 1601 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer ( d. 1658 )

* 1708 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( b. 1658 )

* 1718 – Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England ( b. 1658 )

* Mary of Modena ( 1658 – 1718 ), Queen Consort of King James II of England and VII of Scotland

* 1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet ( d. 1658 )

* March 28 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer ( d. 1658 )

Witte Corneliszoon de With ( 28 March 1599, Den Briel – 8 November 1658, Oresund ) was a famous Dutch naval officer of the 17th century.

Louis II de Bourbon joined the Spanish army this time, but suffered a severe defeat at Dunkirk ( 1658 ) by Henry de la Tour d ' Auvergne.

Jacques Abbadie was born at Nay, Béarn, probably in 1654, although 1657 and 1658 have been given ; he is " most probably the Jacques Abbadie who was the third child of Violente de Fortaner and Pierre Abbadie, baptized on 27 April 1654.

* January 29 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer ( b. 1658 )

* October 15 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer ( b. 1658 )

** Dano-Swedish War ( 1657 – 1658 ): King Frederick III of Denmark signs a manifesto de facto declaring war on Sweden.

* December 26 – Baltasar de Zúñiga, 1st Duke of Arión, viceroy of New Spain ( b. 1658 )

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* Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde ( France, 1658 – 1676 )

This was a non-representative and de facto dynastic mode of succession, with royal connotations in both styles awarded, even a double invocation 16 December 1653-3 September 1658 " By the Grace of God and Republic Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland " and many other monarchic prerogatives, such as awarding knighthoods.

It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle-Isle ( Belle-Île-en-Mer ), Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.

There were reported elephant bird sightings at least in folklore memory as Étienne de Flacourt wrote in 1658.

The elder, Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco ( 1619 – 1658 ), married painter Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo at the Church of Santiago in Madrid on August 21, 1633 ; the younger, Ignacia de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco, born in 1621, died in infancy.

Velázquez, through his daughter Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco ( 1619 – 1658 ), is an ancestor of the Marquesses of Monteleone, including Enriquetta ( Henrietta ) Casado de Monteleone ( 1725 – 1761 ) who in 1746 married Heinrich VI, Count Reuss zu Köstritz ( 1707 – 1783 ).

It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.

The beach at Scheveningen by Adriaen van de Velde, painted 1658

In 1658 the States-General under the advice of a leading member, ( one of the ) mayors of Amsterdam Cornelis de Graeff decided to once again send a fleet to the Baltic Sea to protect the important Baltic trade and to aid the Danes against Swedish aggression, continued despite a peace settlement.

With Russian forces attacking Sweden in Livonia, ( see Russo-Swedish War ( 1656 – 1658 )), Poland finally had the time to gather forces.

With Peter Gunning he disputed against two Roman Catholics, John Spenser and John Lenthall, on the subject of schism, a one-sided account of which was printed in Paris by one of the Roman Catholic disputants, under the title Scisme Unmask't ( 1658 ).

In 1658 the Dutch West Indies Company seized French territory to establish the Dutch colony of Cayenne.

Dutch colonization started in 1638 and ended in 1710, with a brief interruption between 1658 and 1666.

The region was subject to frequent raids by Dutch, French and British pirates, with the city of Granada being invaded twice, in 1658 and 1660.

In 1658, Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the Dutch colony of Nieuw Nederland ( New Netherland ), founded the settlement of Nieuw Haarlem in the northern part of Manhattan Island as an outpost of Nieuw Amsterdam ( New Amsterdam ) at the southern tip of the island.

The first person to describe red blood cells was the young Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdam, who had used an early microscope in 1658 to study the blood of a frog.

In 1658 a group of Jews fleeing the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal were allowed to settle in Newport ( Jews fleeing Brazil after defending Dutch interests there against the Portuguese were denied the right to stay in then-Dutch New York until governor Peter Stuyvesant finally relented in 1655 ; seeking asylum in Spain and Portugal was not an option ).

Europeans first visited the area in 1658 when Dutch maps recorded North and South Hummocks on their maps.

On 17 July he again landed on Zealand and besieged Copenhagen with its king Frederick III of Denmark, but Copenhagen repelled a major assault and managed to hold out long enough for the Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam to relieve the city, defeating the Swedish fleet in the Battle of the Sound on 29 October 1658.

After the conquest of the colony by the Dutch in 1658, Stille was one of the four commissaries or magistrates appointed to administer justice among the inhabitants, and thus became a judge of the first court on the banks of the Delaware.

It was translated into Dutch in 1649, and was continued down to 1658 by Edward Phillips, a nephew of John Milton, who became a strong Royalist.

Portuguese Ceylon remained in Portuguese hands until 1658, when it was seized by the Dutch after an epic siege.

The first Europeans known to land on the island were 13 Dutch sailors including Abraham Leeman from the Waeckende Boey who landed near Bathurst Point on 19 March 1658 while their ship was careened nearby.

The Dutch mariner Samuel Volckertzoon wrote of sighting " a wild cat " on Rottnest Island in 1658.

Leather shoe buckets, 250 in all, were manufactured by local Dutch shoemakers in 1658, and these bucket brigades are regarded as the beginning of the New York Fire Department.

The Dutch governed Tanah Deli from 1658, after Sultan Ismail, ruler of the Siak Sultanate, yielded some of his once-ruled land, Deli, Langkat, and Serdang.

The island was marked but not named on Dutch maps in 1658, even though there were three Dutch ships in the area that year: the Waekende Boey under Captain S. Volckertszoon, the Elburg under Captain J. Peereboom and the Emeloort under Captain A. Joncke.

In 1657 and 1658 the Seneca visited as diplomats, Dutch Colonial officials in New Amsterdam ( Edmund Bailey O ’ Callaghan and Berthonl Fernow, Eds., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York ( Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1881 ) NYCD, 13: 184

* Interior of a Dutch House-c. 1658 ( Oil )

The Dutch East India Company or Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie ( VOC ) built a fortress in Manado named Fort Amsterdam in 1658.

Between 1658 and 1942, it was colonized by the Dutch East India Company and then by the Crown of the Netherlands.

A French version of the Beschreibung was published by Abraham de Wicquefort ( Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius, Paris, 1656 ), an English version was made by John Davies of Kidwelly ( Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, London, 1662 ; and 1669 ), and a Dutch translation by Dieterius van Wageningen ( Beschrijvingh van de nieuwe Parciaensche ofte Orientaelsche Reyse, Utrecht, 1651 ); an Italian translation of the Russian sections also appeared ( Viaggi di Moscovia, Viterbo and Rome, 1658 ).