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unusual facts about 1658


Killing No Murder

It was there that Sexby went insane and died a year later in 1658.


Afonso VI of Portugal

Colonial affairs saw the Dutch conquest of Jaffnapatam, Portugal's last colony in Portuguese Ceylon (1658) and the cession of Bombay and Tangier to England (23 June 1661) as dowry for Afonso's sister, Catherine of Braganza, who had married King Charles II of England.

Arc length

In the 17th century, the method of exhaustion led to the rectification by geometrical methods of several transcendental curves: the logarithmic spiral by Evangelista Torricelli in 1645 (some sources say John Wallis in the 1650s), the cycloid by Christopher Wren in 1658, and the catenary by Gottfried Leibniz in 1691.

Aston Cockayne

Cockayne's Small Poems collection of 1658 included verses to Humphrey Moseley, publisher of the 1647 Beaumont and Fletcher folio.

Bertuccio

Bertuccio Valiero (Venice, July 1, 1596 - Venice, March 29, 1658), 102nd Doge of Venice

Calza

Antonio Calza (1658–1714), Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Carey Fraser

In 1678 she married Charles Mordaunt, 2nd Viscount Mordaunt (1658–1735), later 3rd Earl of Peterborough, and created Earl of Monmouth (in 1689).

Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara

Among the works he is known to have copied is a 230 folio collection of farmans isssued by the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb (1068–1118/1658–1707) which he completed in Jalalabad in 1312/1894; the divan of Šehab-e Torshizi, a late 18th century poet from Herat; and Risala-ye fiuz, a treatise on explosives.

Francisco del Plano

Francisco del Plano (1658 – September 15, 1739) was a Spanish painter who was active in Navarra and the Basque Country.

Giordano Vitale

Giordano is most noted nowadays for a theorem on Saccheri quadrilaterals that he proved in his 1668 book Euclide restituo (named after Borelli's Euclides Restitutus of 1658).

Henry Scobell

In 1658, as a preliminary to the Savoy Assembly, he called together elders of Independent churches from the London area, in the house of George Griffith.

Hesse-Rheinfels

In 1627 Ernest (1623–1693), a younger son of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, received Rheinfels and lower Katzenelnbogen as his inheritance, and some years later, on the deaths of two of his brothers, Friedrich, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (1617–1655) and Herman, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1607–1658), he added Eschwege, Rotenburg, Wanfried and other districts to his possessions.

Hesse-Wanfried

In 1627 Ernest (1623–1693), a younger son of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), received Rheinfels and lower Katzenelnbogen as his inheritance, and some years later, on the deaths of two of his brothers, Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (1617–1655) and Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1607–1658), he added Eschwege, Rotenburg, Wanfried and other districts to his possessions.

James Balfour

Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet (c. 1600–c. 1658), Scottish annalist and antiquary and Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1650–1658

James Hog

James Hog (1658?–1734) was a Scottish minister at Carnock, known for his role in the Marrow Controversy within the Church of Scotland.

Jean de Montpezat de Carbon

Pope Alexander VII confirmed his appointment on June 3, 1658 and he was consecrated as a bishop by Pierre de Marca, Archbishop of Toulouse, on September 8, 1658.

John Fillian

Very few of his engravings exist, notably a portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, published by P. Stent in 1658, a good work; a portrait of his master, Faithorne, from a drawing by himself; a copy of J. Payne's portrait of Paracelsus; ‘Dr. Michael,’ after Guido Reni; and the frontispiece to P. Heylyn's ‘Cosmography,’ published in 1669.

Joseph E. Widener

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Juliana Dias da Costa

Donna Juliana Dias da Costa (1658–1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.

Kiev Theological Academy

In 1658 under the terms of the Treaty of Hadiach the Collegium obtained the status of an Academy, similar to Cracow Academy.

Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg

In 1627, Ernest (1623–1693), a younger son of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, received Rheinfels and lower Katzenelnbogen as his inheritance, and some years later, on the deaths of two of his brothers, Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (1617–1655) and Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1607–1658), he added Eschwege, Rotenburg, Wanfried and other districts to his possessions.

Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch

He became a Knight Hospitaller in 1658 and was next appointed as Prior and Castellan of the Order of Mailberg, based at Schloss Mailberg.

Leschenault, Western Australia

However, the first reported sighting of the coast was by Captain A.P. Jonk in the VOC Emeloort, who sighted land at 33°12' (most likely opposite the estuary from Australind) on 24 February 1658 while looking for the Vergulde Draeck but did not land.

Louis Couperin

On 22 October 1655 he stood godfather to his sister's child at Chaumes-en-Brie; from July to October 1656 and around November 1658 he was frequently travelling to Meudon, where he was probably employed by Abel Servien, a diplomat and statesman.

Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge

Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge (c. 1612, Ancy-le-Franc – May 31, 1660, Montreal) was the French governor of New France from 1648 to 1651 and acting governor from 1657 to 1658.

Louis de Crevant, Duke of Humières

Voltaire said of him, that he was the first who was served in silver in the trenches, and had ragouts and entremets served up to his table (at the siege of Arras, in 1658).

Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy

At his brother's death (1658), Louis-Isaac then began with his friends at Port-Royal (including Blaise Pascal, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, Pierre Nicole, and Pierre Thomas) a revision of his Biblical translation, complete with additional books, Greek texts, and the New Testament.

Nepenthes madagascariensis

Nepenthes madagascariensis was the first Nepenthes species to be discovered; Étienne de Flacourt recorded it in 1658 under the name Amramatico.

Nicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of Thanet

He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1655 and again from 1656 to 1658, for allegedly conspiring to capture Charles II.

Oldtimer Festival

The Jan-Wellem-Pokal (Jan Wellem Trophy) is named after count Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1658–1716), in Düsseldorf commonly known as Jan Wellem.

Richard Hardinge

Richard Hardinge (c.1593 – 24 August 1658) was Groom to the Bedchamber to the then Prince of Wales (later King Charles II of England).

Robert Anstruther

Sir Robert Anstruther, 1st Baronet (1658–1737) (additionally of Balcaskie, Fife and Braemore, Caithness in 1698) MP for Fife 1710

Robert Overton

Overton remained imprisoned in the Tower until in March 1658 when he was moved to Elizabeth Castle on the island of Jersey.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

In 1658, the Church would establish an Apostolic Vicariate by Pope Alexander VII, 124 years since the first voyage of Jacques Cartier in 1534.

Sir Thomas Hatton, 2nd Baronet

He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 23 September 1658.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell

On 4 September 1658, Thomas Wyberg Esq., of St Bees, Joseph Patrickson of Howe, and William Barwis of Paddigil signed a deed on behalf of their wives the three co-heiresses, transferring the Brayton Manorial Estates and other property valued at one thousand pounds to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Isel.

Sir William Drake, 4th Baronet

Sir William Drake, 4th Baronet (1658-1716), of Mount Drake, and Ashe House, Musbury, Devon, was an English politician.

Statue of Our Lady of Miracles, Jaffna patao

From 1614 to 1658 when the statue was in Jaffna, the devotees daily praised Our Lady of Miracles, singing the hymns with versicle and oration the "O Gloriosa Domina" in the morning, " Ave Maris Stella " in the afternoon and at night chanting Litanies beginning with the verse "Tota Pulchra es Maria".

Stefano Celesti

For the church of Church of S. Antonio Abate in Sasso, in Gargnano, he painted a Madonna of the Rosary in 1658.

Thomas Hunt

Thomas Hunt (madrigalist) (c. 1580–1658), English composer and madrigalist who contributed to The Triumphs of Oriana, 1601

Thomas Trevor

Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (1658-1730), English judge, Attorney General and Chief Justice of Common Pleas

Trent Park

A survey of the area conducted between 1656 and 1658 attributes the site as the seat of habitation of Geoffrey de Mandeville during the reign of William the Conqueror.

Tristram Beresford

Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet (died 1673), Irish MP for Londonderry County 1634, 1656–1658, 1661–1666

Trzebiatów

As a dowager, Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1579–1658), widow of Philip II, Duke of Pomerania, lived in Treptow.

William Wyndham

Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet (c. 1632–1683), of Orchard Wyndham, English politician, Member of Parliament for Somerset, 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679

Yury Baryatinsky

In 1658, after a part of the Cossack leadership under Ivan Vyhovsky switched the sides and allied themselves with the Poles, Baryatinsky defeated the hetman's brother Konstantin Vyhovsky near Vasylkiv.


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