1758

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Years:
1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761

Decades:
1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s

Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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List of state leaders in 1758
List of religious leaders in 1758

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

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

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Events

April 29 - Battle of the Bay of Bengal - A French fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.
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 - Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
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.
August 3 - Battle of Negapatam - Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
August 25 - Battle of Zorndorf - Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
September 3 - the Tavora affair - attempted assassination of Joseph I of Portugal
September 14 - French and Indian War: a British attack on Fort Duquesne is defeated.
October 14 - Battle of Hochkirch - Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal Leopold von Daun, who besieges Dresden.
November 25 - French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to British control.
December 25 - Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.
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.