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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).

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Events of 1758

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1758

January - June

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

★ 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.

July - December

★ July 6

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★ Pope Clement XIII succeeds Pope Benedict XIV as the 248th pope.

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★ Seven Years' War: Battle of Bernetz Brook

★ 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 1 - The town of Stephensburgh, Virginia was chartered and founded. Stephensburgh is known today as Stephens City.

★ 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 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.

Ongoing events

★ French and Indian War (1754-1763)

★ Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births

★ 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 - John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (died 1826)

★ February 1 - Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, French orator and politician (died 1805)

★ February 4 - George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died 1818)

★ February 12 - David Ochterlony (died 1825)

★ February 23

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★ Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died 1823)

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★ Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright (died 1823)

★ February 25 - Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (died 1799)

★ 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 12 - Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (died 1840)

★ March 25 - Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (died 1802)

★ April 1 - Benjamin Mooers, U.S. soldier (died 1838)

★ April 4

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★ John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (died 1810)

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★ Pierre Paul Prud'hon, French painter (died 1823)

★ 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

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★ Alexander Hood, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1798)

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★ Alexander Cochrane, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1832)

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★ 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

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★ Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (died 1794)

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★ 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

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★ Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector (died 1839)

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★ 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 - Thomas Picton, British soldier (died 1815)

★ August 2 - William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto (died 1834)

★ August 5 - Emperor Go-Momozono (died 1779)

★ August 10 - Armand Gensonné, French politician (died 1793)

★ August 14 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (died 1835)

★ August 24

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★ Edward James Eliot, English politician (died 1797)

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★ 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

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★ Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist and orientalist (died 1838)

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★ Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer and politician (died 1827)

★ September 25 - Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1841)

★ September 26 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (died 1820)

★ September 29

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★ Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (died 1805)

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★ Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian society hostess (died 1802)

★ October 7 - Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer and politician (died 1798)

★ October 11 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (died 1840)

★ October 12

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★ James Davenport, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (died 1797)

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★ Theodorus Bailey, U.S. Representative for New York (died 1828)

★ October 15 - Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (died 1841)

★ October 16

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★ John Paulding, U.S. soldier (died 1818)

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★ 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

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★ Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (died 1832)

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★ Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier and politician (died 717)

★ November 12 - Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (died 1806)

★ November 16 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (died 1841)

★ 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)

★ December 21 - Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (died 1812)

★ December 23 - John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (died 1802)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Charles d'Abancour, French statesman (died 1792)

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★ Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist and statesman (died 1819)

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★ Vincenzo, Count Dandolo, Italian chemist and agriculturist (died 1819)

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★ Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (died 1833)

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★ Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar and philosopher (died 1828)

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★ Thomas Gisbourne, Anglican priest and abolitionist (died 1846)

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★ Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (died 1785)

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★ Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama (died 1804)

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★ Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (died 1815)

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★ Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (died 1824)

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★ Samuel Sterett, U.S. Representative for Maryland (died 1833)

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★ Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (died 1833)

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★ Jane West, English writer (died 1852)

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★ Samuel Whitbread, English politician (died 1815)

★ ''probable'' - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (died c. 1819)
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Deaths

★ January 7 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (born 1686)

★ January 17 - James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (born 1724)

★ January 18 - François Nicole, French mathematician (born 1683)

★ February 10 - Thomas Ripley, English architect (born 1683)

★ March 2 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (born 1679)

★ March 6 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (born c. 1705)

★ March 18 - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693)

★ March 22

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★ Jonathan Edwards, U.S. minister (born 1703)

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★ Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (born 1670)

★ April 7 - Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (born 1704)

★ April 22 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (born 1686)

★ April 30 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (born 1684)

★ May 3 - Pope Benedict XIV (born 1675)

★ May 28 - Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (born 1737)

★ June 3 - Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (born 1671)

★ June 9 - Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier

★ June 12 - Prince Augustus William of Prussia (born 1722)

★ July 6 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (killed in battle) (born c. 1725)

★ July 15 - Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (born 1705)

★ July 18 - Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier

★ August 2 - George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (born 1675)

★ August 15 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (born 1698)

★ August 17 - Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (born 1702)

★ August 27 - Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (born 1711)

★ September 5 - Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (born c. 1720)

★ September 23 - John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (born 1719)

★ October 12 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (born 1680)

★ October 14

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★ Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (born 1709)

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★ Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (born 1696)

★ October 20 - Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (born 1706)

★ November 5 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (born 1686)

★ November 12 - John Cockburn, Scottish politician

★ November 20 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (born 1694)

★ November 22 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (born 1680)

★ December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (born 1688)

★ December 12 - Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt, Madame de Graffigny, French lettrist (born 1695)

★ December 15 - John Dyer, Welsh poet (born 1699)

★ December 16 - Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (born 1695)

★ December 25 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (born 1714)

★ December 26 - François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist and satirist (born 1677)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Theophilus Cibber, English actor (born 1703)

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★ François Mackandal, Haitian revolutionary leader

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★ Nathaniel Meserve, American shipwright (born 1704)

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★ Philip Southcote, English landscape gardener (born 1698)

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★ Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (born 1706)
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