1758
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1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
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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
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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