Historical Events in 1658
- Mar 8 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
- Mar 17 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
- Jun 3 Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France
- Jun 14 Battle of the Dunes: English and French forces defeat the Spanish near Dunkirk during Franco-Spanish War
- Jun 23 Dutch troops occupy last Portuguese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon
- Jun 24 French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
- Jun 25 Spanish garrison at Dunkirk surrenders to French and English
- Jul 31 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
- Aug 12 1st American police force forms (New Amsterdam)
- Aug 15 France, Sweden, Bavarian, Brunswick, Munster and Hessen-Kassel form Confederation of the Rhine
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Famous People Born in 1658
- Jan 9 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Descente de Croix)
- Feb 13 Jan B. Wellekens, Dutch poet and painter
- Feb 18 Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
- Mar 5 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, french colonial governor of America
- Apr 19 Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1690-1716), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1716)
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Famous People in 1658
Rembrandt van Rijn
Painter
World Leaders in 1658
Louis XIV
The Sun King of FranceOliver Cromwell
English Military and Political Leader