1758

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Years: 1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761

Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1758 in art 1758 in literature 1758 in music 1758 in science List of state leaders in 1758 List of religious leaders in 1758

1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• First European settlement in what is now Erie County by the French at the mouth of Buffalo Creek.
• Pope Clement XIII ascends to papacy
• Rudjer Boscovich publishes his atomic theory in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium
• James Abercromby replaces the earl of Loudoun as supreme commander in the American colonies. He is replaced himself after failing to take the fort at Ticonderoga.
• Fire destroys part of Oslo, then called Christiania.

January

February

March

April

• April 29 - Battle of the Bay of Bengal: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.

May

• May 21 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape.

June

• June 12 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• June 23 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
• June 30 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl - Austrian forces under Ernst Gideon von Laudon and Joseph von Siskovits routed an enormous convoy with supplies for Prussian army guarded by strong troops of Hans Joachim von Zieten.

July

• July 8 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
• July 25 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.

August

• August 3 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Negapatam: Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
• August 25 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Zorndorf: Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.

September

• September 3 - Tavora affair: attempted assassination of Joseph I of Portugal
• September 14 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Duquesne: A British attack on Fort Duquesne is defeated.

October

• October 14 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Hochkirch: Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal Leopold von Daun, who besieges Dresden.

November

• November 25 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to British control.

December

• December 25 - Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.

Ongoing events

• French and Indian War (1754-1763)
• Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births

• April 28 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
• May 6 - André Masséna, French marshall (d. 1817)
• May 6 - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (executed) (d. 1794)
• May 17 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
• 31 July - Jeremiah Colegrove, Continental Army Officers (d. 1836)
• August 5 - Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d. 1779)
• September 29 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
• October 16 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
• Charles d'Abancourt, French statesman (murdered in prison) (d. 1792)
• Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii

Deaths

• January 7 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
• February 10 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
• March 2 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)
• March 6 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician
• March 22 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)
• March 22 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
• April 22 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
• April 30 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
• May 3 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
• June 12 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
• July 6 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (killed in battle)
• October 12 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
• October 14 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
• November 5 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
• November 20 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
• November 22 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1680)
• December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
• December 25 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (b. 1714)af:1758

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