1758:
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).
[edit] Events of 1758
[edit] January - June
[edit] July - December
battle against the Austrians under Marshal Leopold von Daun, who besieges Dresden.
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[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
- January 6 - Charles Ganilh, French economist and politician (d. 1836)
- January 9 - George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d. 1833)
- January 11 - François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician (d. 1797)
- January 24 - Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (d. 1844)
- February - John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (d. 1826)
- February 1 - Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, French orator and politician (d. 1805)
- February 2 - George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (d. 1818)
- February 1 - David Ochterlony (d. 1825)
- February 3
- February 25 - Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (d. 1799)
- February 28 - Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (d. 1850)
- March 6 - William Russell, U.S. soldier (d. 1825)
- March 9 - Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (d. 1828)
- March 12 - Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (d. 1840)
- March 25 - Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1802)
- April 1 - Benjamin Mooers, U.S. soldier (d. 1838)
- April 4
- April 16 - Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Prussian soldier (d. 1827)
- April 19 - Fisher Ames, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (d. 1808)
- April 22 - Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Spanish general (d. 1852)
- April 23
- April 27 - Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix, French zoologist (d. 1830)
- April 28 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
- April 29 - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish soldier (d. 1820)
- May 6
- May 8 - John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1810)
- May 15 - Thomas Taylor, British translator (d. 1835)
- May 17
- June 19 - Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (d. 1833)
- June 30 - James Stephen, British lawyer (d. 1832)
- July 25 - Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (d. 1816)
- July 31 - Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d. 1836)
- August - Thomas Picton, British soldier (d. 1815)
- August 2 - William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto (d. 1834)
- August 5 - Emperor Go-Momozono (d. 1779)
- August 10 - Armand Gensonné, French politician (d. 1793)
- August 14 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
- August 24
- August 25 - Israel Pellew, English naval officer (d. 1832)
- September 1 - George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, English Whig politician (d. 1834)
- September 9 - Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (d. 1840)
- September 10 - Hannah Webster Foster, U.S. novelist (d. 1840)
- September 18 - Louis Friant, French Napoleonic soldier (d. 1829)
- September 20 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haïtian Revolution (d. 1806)
- September 21
- September 25 - Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
- September 26 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (d. 1820)
- September 29
- October 7 - Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer and politician (d. 1798)
- October 11 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
- October 12
- October 15 - Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (d. 1841)
- October 16
- October 28 - John Sibthorp, English botanist (d. 1796)
- October 28 - Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (d. 1829)
- November 5 - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (d. 1831)
- November 11
- November 12 - Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (d. 1806)
- November 16 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
- November 20 - Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1811)
- November 25 - John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier and statesman (d. 1843)
- December 5 - George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (d. 1787)
- December 9 - Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian and archaeologist (d. 1838)
- December 21 - Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (d. 1812)
- December 23 - John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (d. 1802)
- date unknown
- Charles d'Abancour, French statesman (d. 1792)
- Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist and statesman (d. 1819)
- Vincenzo, Count Dandolo, Italian chemist and agriculturist (d. 1819)
- Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (d. 1833)
- Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar and philosopher (d. 1828)
- Thomas Gisbourne, Anglican priest and abolitionist (d. 1846)
- Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (d. 1785)
- Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama (d. 1804)
- Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (d. 1815)
- Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (d. 1824)
- Samuel Sterett, U.S. Representative for Maryland (d. 1833)
- Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (d. 1833)
- Jane West, English writer (d. 1852)
- Samuel Whitbread, English politician (d. 1815)
- probable - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. c. 1819)
- See also Category: 1758 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- January 17 - James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1724)
- January 18 - François Nicole, French mathematician (b. 1683)
- February 10 - Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1683)
- March 2 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)
- March 6 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. c. 1705)
- March 18 - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)
- March 22
- April 7 - Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (b. 1704)
- 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)
- May 28 - Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (b. 1737)
- June 3 - Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (b. 1671)
- June 9 - Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier
- June 12 - Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
- July 6 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (in battle) (b. c. 1725)
- July 15 - Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (b. 1705)
- July 18 - Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier
- August 2 - George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (b. 1675)
- August 15 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
- August 17 - Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702)
- August 27 - Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (b. 1711)
- September 5 - Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (b. c. 1720)
- September 23 - John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (b. 1719)
- October 12 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
- October 14
- October 20 - Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706)
- November 5 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
- November 12 - John Cockburn, Scottish politician
- 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 12 - Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695)
- December 15 - John Dyer, Welsh poet (b. 1699)
- December 16 - Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695)
- December 25 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (b. 1714)
- December 26 - François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist and satirist (b. 1677)
- date unknown
- See also Category: 1758 deaths.
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