1758

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Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years:	1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761

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1 Events of 1758
- 1.1 January - June
- 1.2 July - December
- 1.3 Undated
- 1.4 Ongoing events
2 Births
- 2.1 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1758

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.

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 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 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.

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.