Today in History for Year 1758

Months in Year 1758: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 21 of 21

Jan 11th - Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia [NS=Jan 22]
Jan 22nd - Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11]
Mar 27th - Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
Apr 17th - Francis Williams, 1st US black college graduate, publishes poems
May 21st - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
Jun 23rd - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
Jun 30th - Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
Jul 8th - English & Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, NY
Jul 24th - George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
Jul 25th - Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
Jul 26th - British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg
Aug 8th - British troops occupy & plunder Cherbourg
Aug 14th - Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed
Aug 25th - Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russians: 1000s killed
Aug 29th - New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
Sep 11th - Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.
Sep 12th - Charles Messier observes Crab Nebula & begins catalog
Oct 14th - Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia
Nov 25th - Britain capture Ft Duquesne (later Fort Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French
British Army Officer that Defeated the French in Canada James Wolfe Dec 25th - Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
Dec 31st - British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 38 of 38

Jan 24th - Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer
Feb 4th - Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer
Feb 7th - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer
Feb 12th - Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer
Feb 17th - John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
Mar 9th - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology)
Mar 12th - Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician [or March 22]
Mar 26th - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
Apr 4th - John Hoppner, portrait painter
Apr 4th - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits
Apr 28th - James Monroe, Westmoreland Va, (D-R) 5th pres (1817-25)
Apr 29th - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820).
May 6th - Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
May 17th - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
Jun 2nd - Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer
Jun 18th - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch jurist/patriot
Jul 21st - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration)
Jul 29th - Antonius van Gils, Dutch RC theologist (opposed Enlightenment)
Aug 9th - Bruno Dalberg/Anonymus Belga, [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], writer
Aug 14th - Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer
Aug 24th - Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
Aug 25th - Franz Teyber, composer
Sep 1st - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant
Sep 10th - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
Sep 21st - Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
Sep 26th - Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
Sep 29th - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar)
Oct 5th - Thomas Greatorex, composer
Oct 7th - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
Oct 11th - Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta)
Lexicographer Noah Webster (Oct 16th) Oct 16th - Noah Webster, West Hartford, Connecticut,lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), (d. 1843)
Oct 26th - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer
Nov 7th - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician
Nov 16th - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
Dec 3rd - Josef Gelinek, composer
Dec 11th - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer
Dec 20th - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer
Dec 23rd - Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 29 of 29

Jan 1st - Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26
Jan 7th - Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
Feb 5th - Bernhard Christian Weber, composer, dies at 45
Feb 10th - Thomas Ripley, English architect
Mar 2nd - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
Mar 6th - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
Mar 22nd - Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
Mar 22nd - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
Mar 28th - Jonathan Edwards, US theologist (Great Awakening), dies at 54
Apr 2nd - Johann Balthasar Konig, composer, dies at 67
Apr 22nd - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
Apr 24th - Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41
Apr 27th - Jan Francisci, composer, dies at 66
Apr 30th - François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
May 3rd - Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 83
Jun 12th - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
Jul 6th - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
Jul 24th - John Dyer, poet, dies
Aug 15th - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
Aug 29th - Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75
Aug 29th - Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal, dies at 56
Oct 12th - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
Oct 14th - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
Oct 19th - Johan H Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist, dies
Nov 5th - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
Nov 20th - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish composer/violist, dies at 64
Nov 22nd - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
Dec 5th - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70
Dec 25th - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)