1758

Year 1758 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January - June

 * - : A fleet under  engages the  fleet of  indecisively near.
 * - : : is abducted from her home in  by.
 * - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: : 's attack at commences.
 * - Seven Years' War: -  Anglo-Hanoverian forces under  defeat the.
 * - Seven Years' War: -  Austrian forces under  and Joseph von Siskovits routed an enormous convoy with supplies for n army guarded by strong troops of.

July - December

 * succeeds as the 248th.
 * Seven Years' War:
 * - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold against British at.
 * - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: The island battery at is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
 * - Seven Years' War: : Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
 * - Seven Years' War: : Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count near the.
 * - The town of Stephensburgh, Virginia was chartered and founded. Stephensburgh is known today as.
 * - : attempted assassination of.
 * - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: : A British attack on is defeated.
 * - Seven Years' War: : Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal, who besieges.
 * - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British who then name the area.
 * - appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.
 * - appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.

Undated

 * First European settlement in what is now by the  at the mouth of.
 * publishes his in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium.
 * replaces the as supreme commander in the  colonies. He is replaced himself after failing to take the fort at.
 * Fire destroys part of, then called Christiania.
 * publishes the first volume (Animalia) of the tenth edition of his , the starting point of modern.

Births

 * -, French economist and politician (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, French Revolutionary politician (died )
 * - (died )
 * February -, British antiquarian (died )
 * -, French orator and politician (died )
 * - (died )
 * - (died )
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 * , Ukrainian poet and playwright (died )
 * -, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (died )
 * -, French financier (died )
 * -, U.S. soldier (died )
 * -, German pioneering neuroanatomist (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, Governor of North Carolina (died )
 * -, U.S. soldier (died )
 * , English portrait-painter (died )
 * , French painter (died )
 * -, Prussian soldier (died )
 * -, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (died )
 * -, Spanish general (died )
 * , officer of the Royal Navy (died )
 * , officer of the Royal Navy (died )
 * , English naval officer and colonial administrator (died )
 * -, French zoologist (died )
 * -, 5th (died )
 * -, Swedish soldier (died )
 * , French revolutionary (died )
 * , Napoleonic general and Marshal of France (died )
 * -, U.S. Representative for Virginia (died )
 * -, British translator (died )
 * , British fossil collector (died )
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 * -, Italian engraver (died )
 * -, British lawyer (died )
 * -, English writer (died )
 * -, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (died )
 * August -, British soldier (died )
 * -, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, French politician (died )
 * -, French painter (died )
 * , English politician (died )
 * (died )
 * -, English naval officer (died )
 * -, English Whig politician (died )
 * -, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (died )
 * -, U.S. novelist (died )
 * -, French Napoleonic soldier (died )
 * -, leader of the Haïtian Revolution (died )
 * , French linguist and orientalist (died )
 * , U.S. lawyer and politician (died )
 * -, cousin of (died )
 * -, Argentine Surgeon General (died )
 * , British admiral (died )
 * , Austrian society hostess (died )
 * -, U.S. lawyer and politician (died )
 * -, German astronomer (died )
 * , U.S. Representative for Connecticut (died )
 * , U.S. Representative for New York (died )
 * -, German sculptor (died )
 * , U.S. soldier (died )
 * , U.S. lexicographer (died )
 * -, English botanist (died )
 * -, French general (died )
 * -, French botanist (died )
 * , German composer (died )
 * , U.S. soldier and politician (died )
 * -, French politician (died )
 * -, Danish author and philologist (died )
 * -, U.S. Representative for Virginia (died )
 * -, U.S. soldier and statesman (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, English antiquarian and archaeologist (died )
 * -, French general (died )
 * -, U.S. Representative for Delaware (died )
 * date unknown
 * , French statesman (died )
 * , French jurist and statesman (died )
 * , Italian chemist and agriculturist (died )
 * , U.S. Revolutionary soldier (died )
 * , Greek scholar and philosopher (died )
 * , Anglican priest and abolitionist (died )
 * , U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (died )
 * (died )
 * , U.S. Attorney General (died )
 * , governor of Tennessee (died )
 * , U.S. Representative for Maryland (died )
 * , British Marine officer (died )
 * , English writer (died )
 * , English politician (died )
 * probable -, King of Hawaii (died c. )
 * , Greek scholar and philosopher (died )
 * , Anglican priest and abolitionist (died )
 * , U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (died )
 * (died )
 * , U.S. Attorney General (died )
 * , governor of Tennessee (died )
 * , U.S. Representative for Maryland (died )
 * , British Marine officer (died )
 * , English writer (died )
 * , English politician (died )
 * probable -, King of Hawaii (died c. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Scottish poet (born )
 * -, Scottish peer (born )
 * -, French mathematician (born )
 * -, English architect (born )
 * -, French cardinal (born )
 * -, English politician (born c. )
 * -, Archbishop of Canterbury (born )
 * , U.S. minister (born )
 * , English bass and composer (born )
 * -, American soldier (born )
 * -, French naturalist (born )
 * -, French composer (born )
 * - (born )
 * - (born )
 * - (born )
 * -, Puerto Rican soldier
 * - (born )
 * -, British general (killed in battle) (born c. )
 * -, Danish poet (born )
 * -, Scottish soldier
 * - (born )
 * -, French mathematician (born )
 * -, Russian soldier (born )
 * -, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (born )
 * -, Russian chemist (born c. )
 * - (born )
 * -, British field marshal (born )
 * , daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (born )
 * , Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (born )
 * -, British politician (born )
 * -, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (born )
 * -, Scottish politician
 * -, Swedish composer (born )
 * -, English politician (born )
 * -, German composer (born )
 * -, French lettrist (born )
 * -, Welsh poet (born )
 * -, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (born )
 * -, English clergyman and writer (born )
 * -, French dramatist and satirist (born )
 * date unknown
 * , English actor (born )
 * , Haitian revolutionary leader
 * , American shipwright (born )
 * , English landscape gardener (born )
 * , Rani of Attingal (born )
 * , English landscape gardener (born )
 * , Rani of Attingal (born )


 * See also .