1758
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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).
Events of 1758
January–June
July–December
- July 6
- July 8 – Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against the 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 (present day Pittsburgh) 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.
- October 16 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Clostercamp: The French defeat the combined forces of Great Britain, Prussia, Hanover, Brunswick, and Hesse-Kassel.
- November 25 – Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British, who then name the area Pittsburgh.
- December 25 – Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.
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.
- The first Isakov family member (Trifun Isakov) is mentioned in Melenci.
Ongoing events
Births
- January 6 – Charles Ganilh, French economist and politician (d. 1836)
- January 9 – George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d. 1833)
- January 11 – François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician (d. 1797)
- January 24 – Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (d. 1844)
- February – John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (d. 1826)
- February 1 – Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, French orator and politician (d. 1805)
- February 2 – George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (d. 1818)
- February 1 – David Ochterlony (d. 1825)
- February 3
- Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (d. 1823)
- Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1823)
- February 25 – Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (d. 1799)
- February 28 – Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (d. 1850)
- March 6 – William Russell, U.S. soldier (d. 1825)
- March 9 – Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (d. 1828)
- March 12 – Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (d. 1840)
- March 25 – Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1802)
- April 1 – Benjamin Mooers, U.S. soldier (d. 1838)
- April 4
- John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (d. 1810)
- Pierre Paul Prud'hon, French painter (d. 1823)
- April 16 – Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Prussian soldier (d. 1827)
- April 19 – Fisher Ames, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (d. 1808)
- April 22 – Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Spanish general (d. 1852)
- April 23
- Alexander Hood, officer of the Royal Navy (d. 1798)
- Alexander Cochrane, officer of the Royal Navy (d. 1832)
- Philip Gidley King, English naval officer and colonial administrator (d. 1808)
- April 27 – Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix, French zoologist (d. 1830)
- April 28 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
- April 29 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish officer, general and war hero (d. 1820)
- May 6
- May 8 – John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1810)
- May 15 – Thomas Taylor, British translator (d. 1835)
- May 17
- Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
- Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (d. 1819)
- June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (d. 1833)
- June 30 – James Stephen, British lawyer (d. 1832)
- July 25 – Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (d. 1816)
- July 31 – Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d. 1836)
- August – Thomas Picton, British soldier (d. 1815)
- August 2 – William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto (d. 1834)
- August 5 – Emperor Go-Momozono (d. 1779)
- August 10 – Armand Gensonné, French politician (d. 1793)
- August 14 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
- August 24
- Edward James Eliot, English politician (d. 1797)
- Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1794)
- August 25 – Israel Pellew, English naval officer (d. 1832)
- September 1 – George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, English Whig politician (d. 1834)
- September 9 – Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (d. 1840)
- September 10 – Hannah Webster Foster, U.S. novelist (d. 1840)
- September 18 – Louis Friant, French Napoleonic soldier (d. 1829)
- September 20 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haïtian Revolution (d. 1806)
- September 21
- Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist and orientalist (d. 1838)
- Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer and politician (d. 1827)
- September 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
- September 26 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (d. 1820)
- September 29
- October 7 – Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer and politician (d. 1798)
- October 11 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
- October 12
- James Davenport, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (d. 1797)
- Theodorus Bailey, U.S. Representative for New York (d. 1828)
- October 15 – Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (d. 1841)
- October 16
- October 28 – John Sibthorp, English botanist (d. 1796)
- October 28 – Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (d. 1829)
- November 5 – Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (d. 1831)
- November 11
- Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (d. 1832)
- Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier and politician (d. 1836)
- November 12 – Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (d. 1806)
- November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
- November 20 – Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1811)
- November 25 – John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier and statesman (d. 1843)
- December 5 – George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (d. 1787)
- December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian and archaeologist (d. 1838)
- December 21 – Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (d. 1812)
- December 23 – John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (d. 1802)
- date unknown
- Charles d'Abancour, French statesman (d. 1792)
- Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist and statesman (d. 1819)
- Vincenzo, Count Dandolo, Italian chemist and agriculturist (d. 1819)
- Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (d. 1833)
- Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar and philosopher (d. 1828)
- Thomas Gisbourne, Anglican priest and abolitionist (d. 1846)
- Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (d. 1785)
- Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama (d. 1804)
- Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (d. 1815)
- Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (d. 1824)
- Samuel Sterett, U.S. Representative for Maryland (d. 1833)
- Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (d. 1833)
- Jane West, English writer (d. 1852)
- Samuel Whitbread, English politician (d. 1815)
- Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, Empress of Haiti (d. 1858)
- probable – Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. c. 1819)
Deaths
- January 7 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- January 17 – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1724)
- January 18 – François Nicole, French mathematician (b. 1683)
- February 10 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1683)
- March 2 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)
- March 6 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. c. 1705)
- March 18 – Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)
- March 22
- April 7 – Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (b. 1704)
- 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)
- May 28 – Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (b. 1737)
- June 3 – Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (b. 1671)
- June 9 – Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier
- June 12 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
- July 6 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (in battle) (b. c. 1725)
- July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (b. 1705)
- July 18 – Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier
- August 2 – George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (b. 1675)
- August 15 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
- August 17 – Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702)
- August 27 – Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (b. 1711)
- September 5 – Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (b. c. 1720)
- September 23 – John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (b. 1719)
- October 12 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
- October 14
- Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1709)
- Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
- October 20 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706)
- November 5 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
- November 12 – John Cockburn, Scottish politician
- 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 12 – Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695)
- December 15 – John Dyer, Welsh poet (b. 1699)
- December 16 – Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695)
- December 25 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (b. 1714)
- December 26 – François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist and satirist (b. 1677)
- date unknown
- Theophilus Cibber, English actor (b. 1703)
- François Mackandal, Haitian revolutionary leader
- Nathaniel Meserve, American shipwright (b. 1704)
- Philip Southcote, English landscape gardener (b. 1698)
- Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706)