1658 in England

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Events from the year 1658 in The Protectorate.

Incumbents

• Lord Protector - Oliver Cromwell (to 3 September), Richard Cromwell

Events

• 4 February - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Second Protectorate Parliament.
• April - First stage coach services advertised; 4-day trips from London to Exeter, York, and Chester.
• 14 June - Anglo-Spanish War: A French and English army defeats the Spanish the Battle of the Dunes.
• 30 August - Hurricane storms in southern England; the worst for centuries.
• 3 September - Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector on the death of his father Oliver.

Undated

• Tea first arrives in England, exported from China via Holland.

Ongoing events

• Anglo-Spanish War 1654–1660

Publications

• Thomas Browne - Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus

Births

• 5 May (bapt.) - Thomas Bray, clergyman (died 1730)
• 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)
  • Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (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)
• 10 August - George Harding, 8th Baron Berkeley, noble (died 1601)
• 3 September - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (born 1599)
• Humphrey Edwards, regicide of Charles I (born 1582)
• Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet, Royalist (born c. 1570)
• Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, Royalist (born 1600)
• Robert Walker, painter (born 1599)