1758

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Years: 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763

Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

• 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.
• November 25 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French 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

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

• 1758 in literature
• 1758 in science
• 1758 in music

• April 28 - James Monroe, later 5th President of the United States.
• May 6 - Maximilian Robespierre, French revolutionary.
• September 29 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral.
• October 16 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer.
• Charles d'Abancourt, french statesman
• Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan
• Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii

• May 3 - Pope Benedict XIV
• December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
• Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
• Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
• Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
• Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)