Events from the year 1658 in England.

Incumbents

• Lord Protector – Oliver Cromwell (until 3 September), Richard Cromwell (starting 3 September)
• Parliament – Second Protectorate (until 4 February)

Events

• 4 February – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Second Protectorate Parliament.^[1]
• April – first stage coach services advertised; 4-day trips from London to Exeter, York, and Chester.^[2]
• 14 June – Anglo-Spanish War: A French and English army defeats the Spanish the Battle of the Dunes.^[1]
• 30 August – hurricane storms in southern England; the worst for centuries.^[2]
• 3 September – Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector on the death of his father Oliver.^[1]
• October
  • Savoy Declaration, A Declaration of the Faith and Order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England, is drawn up by Independents and Congregationalists meeting at the Savoy Hospital, London.
  • First domestic pendulum clocks advertised for sale in England, by Ahasuerus Fromanteel of London.

Publications

• Thomas Browne – Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus
• The Whole Duty of Man

Births

• 5 May (bapt.) – Thomas Bray, clergyman (died 1730)
• 3 July – Hester Pinney, businesswoman (died 1740)
• 16 August – Ralph Thoresby, historian (died 1724)
• 16 September – John Dennis, dramatist and critic (died 1734)
• 5 October – Mary of Modena, queen of King James II (died 1718)
• 10 December – Lancelot Blackburne, clergyman (died 1743)
• approximate date
  • Elizabeth Barry, actress (died 1713)
  • Theodore Janssen, Member of Parliament and financier (died 1748)
  • Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, military leader (died 1735)

Deaths

• 7 January – Theophilus Eaton, colonial leader (born 1590)
• 13 January – Edward Sexby, Puritan soldier (born 1616)
• 19 April – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Admiral (born 1587)
• 29 April – John Cleveland, poet (born 1613)
• 2 August (bur.) – Humphrey Edwards, regicide of Charles I (born 1582)
• 10 August – George Harding, 8th Baron Berkeley, noble (born 1601)
• 3 September – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (born 1599)
• September – Lucy Walter, royal mistress, in France (born c.1630 in Wales)
• Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet, Royalist (born c. 1570)
• Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, Royalist exile (born 1600)
• Robert Walker, portrait painter (born 1599)

References