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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).

1758 - Events

April 29 - Battle of the Bay of Bengal - A French fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.
May 21 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
June 12 - 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.
July 8 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
July 25 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
August 3 - Battle of Negapatam - Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
August 25 - Battle of Zorndorf - Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
September 3 - the Tavora affair - attempted assassination of Joseph I of Portugal
September 14 - French and Indian War: a British attack on Fort Duquesne is defeated.
October 14 - Battle of Hochkirch - Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal Leopold von Daun, who besieges Dresden.
November 25 - 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.
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.

1758 - Ongoing events

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

1758 - 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)
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

1758 - 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)