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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1758
Events from the year
1758 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
15 April –
Samuel Johnson begins publishing the series of essays
The Idler (1758–1760) in the Universal Chronicle .
21 April –
Thomas Secker enthroned as
Archbishop of Canterbury .
24 April –
Robert Dodsley and his brother
James sign a contract with
Edmund Burke to launch
The Annual Register .
29 April –
Seven Years' War :
Battle of Cuddalore : A British fleet under
George Pocock engages the
French fleet of
Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near
Madras .
23 June – Seven Years' War:
Battle of Krefeld : Anglo-Hanoverian forces under
Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
8 July –
French and Indian War :
Battle of Carillon : French forces hold
Fort Carillon against British at
Ticonderoga, New York .
[2]
3 August – Seven Years' War: At the
Battle of Negapatam off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
14 September – French and Indian War: At the
Battle of Fort Duquesne , a British attack on
Fort Duquesne is defeated.
27 October – the ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves
Parkgate, Cheshire , for Dublin, and founders in the
Irish Sea ; she carries 70,000
Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth
Earl of Drogheda ,
Theophilus Cibber , the actor, and (probably) the Irish
mezzotint
engraver
Michael Ford .
[3]
25 November – French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British who then name the area
Pittsburgh .
Births
9 January –
George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (died
1833 )
24 January –
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (died
1844 )
4 February –
George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died
1818 )
12 February –
David Ochterlony , general (died
1825 )
17 February –
John Pinkerton , antiquarian (died
1826 )
23 February –
Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died
1823 )
4 April –
John Hoppner , English portrait-painter (died
1810 )
23 April
30 April –
Jane West , writer (died
1852 )
April –
Herod , racehorse (died
1780 )
15 May –
Thomas Taylor , neoplatonist translator (died
1835 )
17 May –
Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet , fossil collector (died
1839 )
30 June –
James Stephen , lawyer (died
1832 )
25 July –
Elizabeth Hamilton , writer (died
1816 )
24 August
25 August –
Israel Pellew , Royal Navy officer (died
1832 )
1 September –
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer , Whig politician (died
1834 )
9 September –
Alexander Nasmyth , portrait and landscape painter (died
1840 )
29 September –
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson , Royal Navy officer, admiral (killed in action
1805 )
6 October –
Watkin Tench , Marine officer (died
1833 )
28 October –
John Sibthorp , botanist (died
1796 )
5 December –
George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (died
1787 )
9 December –
Richard Colt Hoare , antiquarian and archaeologist (died
1838 )
Deaths
7 January –
Allan Ramsay , poet (born
1686 in Scotland)
17 January –
James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton , peer (born
1724 )
10 February –
Thomas Ripley , architect (born
1683 )
6 March –
Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington , politician (born c.
1705 )
18 March –
Matthew Hutton , Archbishop of Canterbury (born
1693 )
22 March –
Richard Leveridge , bass and composer (born
1670 )
6 July –
George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe , general (killed in battle) (born c.
1725 )
18 July –
Duncan Campbell , soldier (year of birth unknown)
2 August –
George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (born
1675 )
2 October (bur.) –
Philip Southcote , landscape gardener (born
1698 )
12 October –
Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth , field marshal (born 1680)
14 October –
Francis Edward James Keith , soldier and field marshal (born
1696 )
20 October –
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough , politician (born
1706 )
c.27/8 October –
Theophilus Cibber , actor (born
1703 )
12 November –
John Cockburn , Scottish politician
22 November –
Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe , politician (born
1680 )
15 December –
John Dyer , poet (born
1699 )
25 December –
James Hervey , clergyman and writer (born
1714 )
See also
References
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