1758 Calendar
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1758 Historical Event(s)
May 21, 1758
– Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
June 12, 1758
– French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe’s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
June 23, 1758
– Seven Years’ War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
June 30, 1758
– Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
July 8, 1758
– French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
July 25, 1758
– Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
August 25, 1758
– Seven Years’ War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
August 29, 1758
– The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
September 11, 1758
– Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years’ War.
October 14, 1758
– Seven Years’ War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk.
Who Were Born On 1758?
March 9, 1758
– Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (d. 1828)
April 29, 1758
– Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820)
May 6, 1758
– André Masséna, French marshal (d. 1817)
May 17, 1758
– John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
August 24, 1758
– Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
September 10, 1758
– Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
September 21, 1758
– Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
September 29, 1758
– Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
December 23, 1758
– Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York (d. 1834)