Year 1758 (MDCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1758

January - June

• March - The respected Calvinist theologian Jonathan Edward dies at 54.
• April 29 - Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.

April 29: Battle of Cuddalore.

• May 21 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape.
• June 12 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• June 23 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
• June 30 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl - Austrian forces under Ernst Gideon von Laudon and Joseph von Siskovits routed an enormous convoy with supplies for Prussian army guarded by strong troops of Hans Joachim von Zieten.

July - December

• July 6 - Pope Clement XIII succeeds Pope Benedict XIV as the 248th pope.
• July 8 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
• July 25 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
• August 3 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Negapatam: Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
• August 25 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Zorndorf: Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
• September 1 - The town of Stephensburgh, Virginia was chartered and founded. Stephensburgh is known today as Stephens City.
• September 3 - Tavora affair: attempted assassination of Joseph I of Portugal.
• September 14 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Duquesne: A British attack on Fort Duquesne is defeated.
• October 14 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Hochkirch: Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal Leopold von Daun, who besieges Dresden.
• November 25 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British who then name the area Pittsburgh.
• December 25 - Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.

Undated

• First European settlement in what is now Erie County by the French at the mouth of Buffalo Creek.
• Rudjer Boscovich publishes his atomic theory in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium.
• James Abercrombie replaces the Earl of Loudoun as supreme commander in the American colonies. He is replaced himself after failing to take the fort at Ticonderoga.
• Fire destroys part of Oslo, then called Christiania.
• Carolus Linnaeus publishes the first volume (Animalia) of the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature.

Ongoing events

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

Births

• January 6 - Charles Ganilh, French economist and politician (died 1836)
• January 9 - George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (died 1833)
• January 11 - François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician (died 1797)
• January 24 - Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (died 1844)
• February - John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (died 1826)
• February 1 - Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, French orator and politician (died 1805)
• February 4 - George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died 1818)
• February 12 - David Ochterlony (died 1825)
• February 23
  • Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died 1823)
  • Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright (died 1823)
• February 25 - Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (died 1799)
• February 28 - Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (died 1850)
• March 6 - William Russell, U.S. soldier (died 1825)
• March 9 - Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (died 1828)
• March 12 - Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (died 1840)
• March 25 - Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (died 1802)
• April 1 - Benjamin Mooers, U.S. soldier (died 1838)
• April 4
  • John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (died 1810)
  • Pierre Paul Prud'hon, French painter (died 1823)
• April 16 - Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Prussian soldier (died 1827)
• April 19 - Fisher Ames, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (died 1808)
• April 22 - Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Spanish general (died 1852)
• April 23
  • Alexander Hood, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1798)
  • Alexander Cochrane, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1832)
  • Philip Gidley King, English naval officer and colonial administrator (died 1808)
• April 27 - Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix, French zoologist (died 1830)
• April 28 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (died 1831)
• April 29 - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish soldier (died 1820)
• May 6
  • Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (died 1794)
  • André Masséna, Napoleonic general and Marshal of France (died 1817)
• May 8 - John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (died 1810)
• May 15 - Thomas Taylor, British translator (died 1835)
• May 17
  • Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector (died 1839)
  • Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (died 1819)
• June 19 - Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (died 1833)
• June 30 - James Stephen, British lawyer (died 1832)
• July 25 - Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (died 1816)
• July 31 - Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (died 1836)
• August - Thomas Picton, British soldier (died 1815)
• August 2 - William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto (died 1834)
• August 5 - Emperor Go-Momozono (died 1779)
• August 10 - Armand Gensonné, French politician (died 1793)
• August 14 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (died 1835)
• August 24
  • Edward James Eliot, English politician (died 1797)
  • Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1794)
• August 25 - Israel Pellew, English naval officer (died 1832)
• September 1 - George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, English Whig politician (died 1834)
• September 9 - Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
• September 10 - Hannah Webster Foster, U.S. novelist (died 1840)
• September 18 - Louis Friant, French Napoleonic soldier (died 1829)
• September 20 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haïtian Revolution (died 1806)
• September 21
  • Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist and orientalist (died 1838)
  • Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer and politician (died 1827)
• September 25 - Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1841)
• September 26 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (died 1820)
• September 29
  • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (died 1805)
  • Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian society hostess (died 1802)
• October 7 - Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer and politician (died 1798)
• October 11 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (died 1840)
• October 12
  • James Davenport, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (died 1797)
  • Theodorus Bailey, U.S. Representative for New York (died 1828)
• October 15 - Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (died 1841)
• October 16
  • John Paulding, U.S. soldier (died 1818)
  • Noah Webster, U.S. lexicographer (died 1843)
• October 28 - John Sibthorp, English botanist (died 1796)
• October 28 - Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (died 1829)
• November 5 - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (died 1831)
• November 11
  • Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (died 1832)
  • Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier and politician (died 717)
• November 12 - Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (died 1806)
• November 16 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (died 1841)
• November 20 - Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (died 1811)
• November 25 - John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier and statesman (died 1843)
• December 5 - George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (died 1787)
• December 9 - Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian and archaeologist (died 1838)
• December 21 - Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (died 1812)
• December 23 - John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (died 1802)
• date unknown
  • Charles d'Abancour, French statesman (died 1792)
  • Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist and statesman (died 1819)
  • Vincenzo, Count Dandolo, Italian chemist and agriculturist (died 1819)
  • Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (died 1833)
  • Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar and philosopher (died 1828)
  • Thomas Gisbourne, Anglican priest and abolitionist (died 1846)
  • Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (died 1785)
  • Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama (died 1804)
  • Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (died 1815)
  • Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (died 1824)
  • Samuel Sterett, U.S. Representative for Maryland (died 1833)
  • Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (died 1833)
  • Jane West, English writer (died 1852)
  • Samuel Whitbread, English politician (died 1815)
• probable - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (died c. 1819)

See also Category: 1758 births.

Deaths

• January 7 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (born 1686)
• January 17 - James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (born 1724)
• January 18 - François Nicole, French mathematician (born 1683)
• February 10 - Thomas Ripley, English architect (born 1683)
• March 2 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (born 1679)
• March 6 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (born c. 1705)
• March 18 - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693)
• March 22
  • Jonathan Edwards, U.S. minister (born 1703)
  • Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (born 1670)
• April 7 - Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (born 1704)
• April 22 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (born 1686)
• April 30 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (born 1684)
• May 3 - Pope Benedict XIV (born 1675)
• May 28 - Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (born 1737)
• June 3 - Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (born 1671)
• June 9 - Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier
• June 12 - Prince Augustus William of Prussia (born 1722)
• July 6 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (killed in battle) (born c. 1725)
• July 15 - Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (born 1705)
• July 18 - Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier
• August 2 - George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (born 1675)
• August 15 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (born 1698)
• August 17 - Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (born 1702)
• August 27 - Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (born 1711)
• September 5 - Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (born c. 1720)
• September 23 - John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (born 1719)
• October 12 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (born 1680)
• October 14
  • Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (born 1709)
  • Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (born 1696)
• October 20 - Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (born 1706)
• November 5 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (born 1686)
• November 12 - John Cockburn, Scottish politician
• November 20 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (born 1694)
• November 22 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (born 1680)
• December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (born 1688)
• December 12 - Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt, Madame de Graffigny, French lettrist (born 1695)
• December 15 - John Dyer, Welsh poet (born 1699)
• December 16 - Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (born 1695)
• December 25 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (born 1714)
• December 26 - François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist and satirist (born 1677)
• date unknown
  • Theophilus Cibber, English actor (born 1703)
  • François Mackandal, Haitian revolutionary leader
  • Nathaniel Meserve, American shipwright (born 1704)
  • Philip Southcote, English landscape gardener (born 1698)
  • Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (born 1706)

See also Category: 1758 deaths.