1758 - Definition and Overview

Events

• 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 - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
• 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
• 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.

Ongoing events

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

Births

• April 28 - James Monroe, later 5th President of the United States.
• May 6 - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary.
• May 17 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector
• 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

Deaths

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