In the year 1658, the Treaty of Roskilde brings peace between Sweden and Denmark (Feb 26), a Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English (Jun 27), after Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire (Jul 31), Sweden attacks Denmark (Aug 7), Oliver Cromwell dies, and his son becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (Sep 3), the Dutch Navy forces the Swedish Navy to leave the coasts of Denmark (Oct 29), Dutch Jan Swammerdam becomes the first to observe and describe red blood cells - and all these fine people were born:
1658-0109 Nicolas Coustou* sculptor/academic - Lyon, France (1733/75)
1658-0305 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac* (b Laumet) explorer/founder of Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (becoming Detroit)/governor of Louisiana - Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave, France (1730/72)
1658-0323 Jean-Baptiste Santerre* painter - Magny-en-Vexin, France (1717/66)
1658-0422 Giuseppe Torelli* Italian violinist/ teacher/composer - Verona (1709/50)
1658-0610 John March* businessman/colonel - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1712/54)
1658-0801 Pierre Joseph Garidel* botanist - Manosque, Bouches-du-Rhone, France (1737/78)
1658-0810 Susanne Maria von Sandrart* engraver/artist - Nuremberg, Germany (1716/58)
1658-0919 John Dennis* dramatist/critic - St Andrew Holborn, London, England (1734/75)
1658-1002 Nicholas Roosevelt (B) (b Van Rosenvelt) Dutch-British politician/an early member of the Roosevelt family - New Amsterdam, New Netherland (1742/83)
1658-1024 Marko Gerbec* physician/scientist - Šentvid pri Stični, Duchy of Carniola, Austrian Circle (1718/59)
1658-1104 Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani* writer/diplomat - Tandzia, Kingdom of Kartli, Safavid Empire (1725/66)
Updated 3.7.2021
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