European bison were first scientifically described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758.

In 1758, Carolus Linnaeus gave the great white shark its first scientific name, Squalus carcharias.

The Wandering Albatross was first described as Diomedea exulans by Carolus Linnaeus, in 1758, based on a specimen from the Cape of Good Hope.

Chitons were first studied by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758.

The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals.

The right whales were first classified in the Balaena genus in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, who at the time considered all of the right whales ( including the bowhead ) as a single species.

The Black-tailed Godwit ( Limosa limosa ) is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758.

This species was first described, as Scolopax limosa, by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758.

The Sedge Warbler was first described by Carolus Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 ( British ornithologists did not distinguish the species from the Eurasian Reed Warbler until the 18th Century ).

Carolus Linnaeus included much of the information in the Natural History in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae ( 1758 ).

Rhinoceros unicornis was the type species for the rhinoceros family, first classified by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758.

Not until 1758, when Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus ( 1707 – 1778 ) published the tenth edition of Systema Naturae, were they seen as mammals.

Carolus Linnaeus gave the loggerhead its first binomial name, Testudo caretta, in 1758.

In his Systema Naturae of 1758, Carolus Linnaeus divided the Order Primates into four genera: Homo, Simia, Lemur, and Vespertilio.

* 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

** Haliotis tuberculata tuberculata Linnaeus, 1758

* Haliotis varia Linnaeus, 1758

File: Albinos ( Taupe d ' Europe ). jpg | European Mole ( Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758 )

The Common Buzzard was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Falco buteo.

** C. v. marilandicus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )-coastal New England to Pennsylvania and central Virginia

** C. v. virginianus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )-nominate-Atlantic coast from Virginia to northern Florida and southeast Alabama

Carl Linnaeus, who named the species in his seminal Systema Naturae of 1758, would have known this and may have intended the ironic double meaning.

The giraffe was one of the many species first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

Orcinus orca is the only recognized extant species in the genus Orcinus, one of many animal species originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 in Systema Naturae.

The same applies to " Linnaean name ": depending on the context this may either be a formal name given by Linnaeus ( personally ), such as Giraffa camelopardalis Linnaeus, 1758, or a formal name in the accepted nomenclature ( as opposed to a modernistic clade name ).

They were included in the genus Camelus along with alpaca in the Systema Naturae ( 1758 ) of Linnaeus.

In 1758, Linnaeus first described the species in his work Systema Naturae under the scientific name Felis tigris.

Currently, plant and animal taxonomists regard Linnaeus ' work as the " starting point " for valid names ( at 1753 and 1758 respectively ).

Two subspecies of walrus are widely recognized: the Atlantic walrus, O. r. rosmarus ( Linnaeus, 1758 ) and the Pacific walrus, O. r. divergens ( Illiger, 1815 ).

Thus zoologists will give the name of a particular sea snail species as " Patella vulgata Linnaeus, 1758 ".

The name " Linnaeus " tells the reader who it was that named the species ; 1758 is the date of the publication in which the original description can be found, in this case the 10th edition of the book Systema Naturae.

*( animal ) Passer domesticus ( Linnaeus, 1758 ) – the original name given by Linnaeus was Fringilla domestica ; unlike the ICN, the ICZN does not require the name of the person who changed the genus to be given.

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

* Letter to M. D ' Alembert on Spectacles, 1758 ( Lettre à d ' Alembert sur les spectacles )

James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in his parents ' house located in a wooded area of Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Boulton, Darwin and Whitehurst were in turn introduced by Michell to Benjamin Franklin when he travelled to Birmingham in July 1758 " to improve and increase Acquaintance among Persons of Influence ", and Franklin returned in 1760 to conduct experiments with Boulton on electricity and sound.

Many Acadians died in the expulsion enroute to France: on December 13, 1758, the transport ship Duke William sank and 364 died.

The German physician Franz Joseph Gall ( 1758 – 1828 ) in 1796 began lecturing on organology, the isolation of mental faculties and later cranioscopy, which was the reading of the bumps on the skull that were supposedly created by the brain organs.

" In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the Index of prohibited books, although the specific ban on uncensored versions of the Dialogue and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus remained.

He became pope on 6 July 1758.

Year 1758 ( MDCCLVIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

He embarked on a plan for the 1758 campaign that was largely developed by Loudoun.

In the aftermath of generally poor French results in most theaters of the Seven Years ' War in 1758, France's new foreign minister, the duc de Choiseul, decided to focus on an invasion of Britain, to draw British resources away from North America and the European mainland.

* Battle on Snowshoes ( 1758 )

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 ).

In 1758 a new hospital was opened to the West of the town which replaced the old medieval one which had grown too small, and which had been situated on the south side of the cathedral.

The following year he took part in an expedition against the French fortress of Louisbourg, and in 1758 he was wounded in a failed assault on Fort Ticonderoga.

Captured on August 8, 1758 by the Kahnawake ( Mohawk Indians ) during a military campaign near Crown Point in New York, he was saved from being ritually burned alive by a rain storm and the last-minute intervention of a French officer.

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

It was the scene of the Battle of Zorndorf, in which the Prussians under Frederick the Great fought the Russians commanded by Wilhelm Fermor, on August 25, 1758.