1758

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Decades:	1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years:	1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761

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Countries: Canada
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Year 1758 (MDCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1758
2 Births
- 2.1 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Unknown dates

[edit] Events of 1758

[edit] January - June

March - The respected Calvinist theologian Jonathan Edward dies at 54.
April 29 - Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.

April 29: Battle of Cuddalore.

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

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.

[edit] July - December

July 6 - Pope Clement XIII succeeds Pope Benedict XIV as the 248th pope.
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 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 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 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 25 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to British control.
December 25 - Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.

[edit] Undated

First European settlement in what is now Erie County by the French at the mouth of Buffalo Creek.
Rudjer Boscovich publishes his atomic theory in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium.
James Abercrombie 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.
Carolus Linnaeus publishes the first volume (Animalia) of the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature.

[edit] Ongoing events

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

[edit] Births

**1758 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1758 MDCCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2511
Armenian calendar	1207 ԹՎ ՌՄԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-86 – -85
Buddhist calendar	2302
Chinese calendar	4394/4454-11-22 (丁丑年十一月廿二日) — to — 4395/4455-12-2 (戊寅年十二月初二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1750 – 1751
Hebrew calendar	5518 – 5519
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1813 – 1814
- Shaka Samvat	1680 – 1681
- Kali Yuga	4859 – 4860
Holocene calendar	11758
Iranian calendar	1136 – 1137
Islamic calendar	1171 – 1172
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 8 (宝暦8年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2418 (皇紀2418年)
- Jōmon Era	11758
Julian calendar	1803
Korean calendar	4091
Thai solar calendar	2301
v • d • e

January 6 - Charles Ganilh, French economist and politician (died 1836)
January 9 - George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (died 1833)
January 11 - François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician (died 1797)
January 24 - Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (died 1844)
February 4 - George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died 1818)
February 12 - David Ochterlony (died 1825)
February 23 - Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died 1823)
February 23 - Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright (died 1823)
February 28 - Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (died 1850)
March 6 - William Russell, U.S. soldier (died 1825)
March 9 - Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (died 1828)
March 25 - Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (died 1802)
April 1 - Benjamin Mooers, U.S. soldier (died 1838)
April 4 - John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (died 1810)
April 16 - Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Prussian soldier (died 1827)
April 19 - Fisher Ames, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (died 1808)
April 22 - Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Spanish general (died 1852)
April 23 - Alexander Hood, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1798)
April 23 - Alexander Cochrane, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1832)
April 23 - Philip Gidley King, English naval officer and colonial administrator (died 1808)
April 27 - Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix, French zoologist (died 1830)
April 28 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (died 1831)
April 29 - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish soldier (died 1820)
May 6 - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (executed) (died 1794)
May 6 - André Masséna, Napoleonic general and Marshal of France (died 1817)
May 8 - John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (died 1810)
May 15 - Thomas Taylor, British translator (died 1835)
May 17 - Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector (died 1839)
May 17 - Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (died 1819)
June 19 - Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (died 1833)
June 30 - James Stephen, British lawyer (died 1832)

July 25 - Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (died 1816)
July 31 - Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (died 1836)
August 5 - Emperor Go-Momozono (died 1779)
August 10 - Armand Gensonné, French politician (died 1793)
August 24 - Edward James Eliot, English politician (died 1797)
August 24 - Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1794)
August 25 - Israel Pellew, English naval officer (died 1832)
September 1 - George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, English Whig politician (died 1834)
September 9 - Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
September 10 - Hannah Webster Foster, U.S. novelist (died 1840)
September 18 - Louis Friant, French Napoleonic soldier (died 1829)
September 20 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haïtian Revolution (died 1806)
September 21 - Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist and orientalist (died 1838)
September 21 - Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer and politician (died 1827)
September 29 - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (died 1805)
October 11 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (died 1840)
October 12 - James Davenport, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (died 1797)
October 12 - Theodorus Bailey, U.S. Representative for New York (died 1828)
October 15 - Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (died 1841)
October 16 - John Paulding, U.S. soldier (died 1818)
October 16 - Noah Webster, U.S. lexicographer (died 1843)
October 28 - John Sibthorp, English botanist (died 1796)
October 28 - Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (died 1829)
November 5 - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (died 1831)
November 11 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (died 1832)
November 12 - Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (died 1806)
November 20 - Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (died 1811)
November 25 - John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier and statesman (died 1843)
December 5 - George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (died 1787)
December 9 - Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian and archaeologist (died 1838)

[edit] Unknown dates

Charles d'Abancourt, French statesman (murdered in prison) (died 1792)
Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (died 1820)
Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian society hostess (died 1802)
Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier and politician (died 717)
Joseph Billings, English navigator and explorer (died 363)
Johann Heinrich Bleuler, Swiss painter (died 1823)
Joshua Booth, soldier and political figure in Upper Canada (died 363)
William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto (died 1834)
René Richard Louis Castel, French poet and naturist (died 1832)
Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, French orator and politician (died 1805)
Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist and statesman (died 1819)
Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer and politician (died 736)
John Cranch, English naturalist and explorer (died 1816)
Vincenzo, Count Dandolo, Italian chemist and agriculturist (died 1819)
James Donn, English botanist (died 1813)
Robert Dundas of Arniston, Scottish judge (died 1819)
Jens Schou Fabricius, Norwegian Minister of the Navy (died 1841)
Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (died 1833)
John Foster, Sr., British architect (died 1827)
Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar and philosopher (died 1828)
Thomas Gisbourne, Anglican priest and abolitionist (died 1846)
Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki, Polish soldier (died 1794)
Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (died 1785)
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, Spanish naval officer (died 1829)
Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (died c. 1819)
Maximus von Imhof, German physicist (died 1817)
Maximin Isnard, French revolutionist (died 1825)
Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (died 1812)
Stephen Kemble, British actor (died 1822)
Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama (died 1804)
Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (died 1815)
Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (died 1799)
Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (died 1824)
Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1841)
Joseph Shepherd Munden, English actor (died 1832)
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar (died 1841)
Józef Kajetan Ossoliński, Polish nobleman (died 1834)
Thomas Picton, British soldier (died 1815)
John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (died 1826)
Salem Poor, U.S. soldier
Pierre Paul Prud'hon, French painter (died 1823)
Edward Riou, British naval officer (died 1801)
William L. Smith, U.S. Representative for South Carolina (died 1812)
Samuel Sterett, U.S. Representative for Maryland (died 1833)
Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (died 1840)
Major-General Charles Stuart, Irish soldier
Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (died 1833)
Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet, English admiral (approximate date; died 1807)
Thomas Christian Tychsen, German orientalist and Lutheran theologian (died 1834)
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (died 1835)
John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (died 736)
Jane West, English writer (died 1852)
Samuel Whitbread, English politician (died 1815)