* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )

* Haliotis asinina Linnaeus, 1758 – the ass ’ s ear abalone

* Haliotis midae Linnaeus, 1758 – the Midas ear abalone, perlemoen abalone or South African abalone

* Haliotis parva Linnaeus, 1758 – the canaliculate abalone

* Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus, 1758 – the green ormer, European edible abalone, tube abalone, or tuberculate ormer – synonyms: Haliotis varia, Variable abalone, Haliotis barbouri

** Haliotis tuberculata marmorata Linnaeus, 1758 – synonyms: Haliotis virginea – the Virgin abalone, Haliotis rosacea, the rosy abalone

* 1758 – Carle Vernet, French painter ( d. 1835 )

* 1758 – Seven Years ' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.

* 1758 – Franz Teyber, Austrian organist and composer ( d. 1810 )

* 1758 – The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

Vir Singh Kirat Singh Pahar Singh ( 1758 – 1765 )

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d ' Abancour ( 4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792 ) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.

** Charles Darwin ( 1758 – 1778 ) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 ), third son of Lady Sunderland

* 1758 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor and teacher of music ( d. 1832 )

David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic.

* 1758 – Benedikt Schack, Czech composer and tenor ( d. 1826 )

* 1714 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer ( d. 1758 )

* 1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician ( d. 1758 )

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

In 1758, he took part in the major amphibious assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg from the French, after which he participated in the siege of Quebec City and then the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

* 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.

* 1758 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.

* 1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist ( d. 1758 )

* 1758 – French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

* 1758 – André Masséna, French marshal ( d. 1817 )

* 1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician ( d. 1794 )

* 1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.

* 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.

* 1835 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter ( b. 1758 )

Although he has been compared to the Jacobin Maximilien de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), Francia's policies and ideals perhaps most closely resembled those of François-Noël Babeuf ( 1760 – 1797 ), the French utopian who wanted to abolish private property and communalize land as a prelude to founding a " republic of equals ".

In 1758 three French warships were seen lying off the island in wait for the Company ’ s India fleet.

In 1758 the French settlement was captured by a British expedition as part of the Seven Years ' War, but was later returned to France.

In 1758 Pitt began to put into practice a new strategy to win the Seven Years War, which would involve tying down large numbers of French troops and resources in Germany, while Britain used its naval supremacy to launch expeditions to capture French forces around the globe.

In April 1758 British forces captured the ill-defended fort of Saint-Louis in Senegal.

Duncan Campbell was a Scots nobleman who died on July 18, 1758, as a result of wounds received in an unsuccessful frontal attack against French forces at Fort Carillon ( renamed Fort Ticonderoga when the British took the fort a year later ).

* 1758 — Rudjer Josip Boscovich develops his Theory of forces, where gravity can be repulsive on small distances.

In 1758, a conflict erupted between British forces and the Cherokee Indians, their former allies in the French and Indian War.

In 1758, when British forces launched a major campaign to remove French forces from the forks of the Ohio, now Pittsburgh, this spot on Loyalhanna Creek was the site of their westernmost camp before reaching the Ohio.

As the Seven Years ' War entered its later stages through 1758 and 1759, French forces and colonies in northeastern North America came under renewed attacks from British troops.

In 1758, British forces again captured Louisbourg, allowing them to blockade the entrance to the St. Lawrence River.

The town was recaptured by Anglo-German forces in 1758 and for the rest of the conflict was used as a major supply base by the British to support the ongoing war in Westphalia.

It started when Swedish forces advanced into Prussian territory in 1757, but were repelled and blockaded at Stralsund until their relief by a Russian force in 1758.

It was captured again in 1758 by British forces in the Seven Years ' War, after which it was systematically destroyed by British engineers.

The French fortress was demolished after its final capture in 1758 and the site was abandoned by British forces in 1768.

The most recent in July 2008, commemorated the 250th anniversary of the first British siege victory over French forces in July 1758.

Later in 1758 they joined the allied forces of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick in Germany, with the first detachment of British troops sent to the Continent.

De Bouillé first saw military action in the Seven Years ' War in 1758, when his regiment joined French forces in present-day Germany.

General James Abercrombie or Abercromby ( 1706 – April 23, 1781 ) was a British Army general and commander-in-chief of forces in North America during the French and Indian War, best known for the disastrous British losses in the 1758 Battle of Carillon.

Abercrombie commanded a brigade at Louisbourg in 1757 and became commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America after the departure of John Campbell in March 1758 ( see Commander-in-Chief, North America ).

After a lengthy journey, the fleet of the comte d ' Aché, carrying the expeditionary forces whose land commander was the count de Lally, arrived off British-occupied Cuddalore in southern India on 28 April 1758.

* Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), the capture of the settlement by British forces during the Seven Years ' War, after which it was permanently ceded to the British

* Thomas Picton ( 1758 – 1815 ), Welsh General who led British forces in the Peninsular War