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 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• 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 - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
• 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.
• September 14 - French and Indian War: a British attack on Fort Duquesne is defeated.
• November 25 - French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to British control.
• December 25 - Halley's Comet appears
• 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.

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. 1731]])
• 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

Deaths

• May 3 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
• December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)af:1758

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