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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
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1758 was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
July
- against British at Ticonderoga, New York .
- is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
August
- : Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
- near the Oder .
September
November
- November 25 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to British control.
December
Ongoing events
Births
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 )
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