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The Common Buzzard was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Falco buteo.
Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.
Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d ' Abancour ( 4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792 ) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.
In 1758, the fortress of Louisbourg was laid siege for a second time within 15 years, this time by more than 27, 000 British soldiers and sailors with over 150 warships.
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.
The distinction between static and dynamic friction is made in Coulomb's friction law ( see below ), although this distinction was already drawn by Johann Andreas von Segner in 1758.
As a respected military hero and large landowner, he held local office and was elected to the Virginia provincial legislature, the House of Burgesses, beginning in 1758.
The giraffe was one of the many species first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
In 1758, after a failed plot to poison the drinking water of the plantation owners, he was captured and burned alive at the public square in Cap-Français.
James Monroe ( April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831 ) was the fifth President of the United States ( 1817 – 1825 ).
James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in his parents ' house located in a wooded area of Westmoreland County, Virginia.
In 1758 he was appointed chief physician of the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar at Gosport.
Although older than both Boulton and Darwin, by 1758 Whitehurst was writing to Boulton telling excitedly of a pyrometer he had built, and looking forward to visiting Birmingham " to spend one day with you in trying all necessary experiments ".
Nova Scotia had established representative government in 1758, an achievement that was later commemorated by erecting the Dingle Tower in 1908.
Noah Webster, Jr. ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 ), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.
In 1758 he was appointed director of the Department of Geography, Academy of Sciences, a post from which would develop a working methodology for geographical survey guided by the most important long expeditions and geographical studies in Russia.
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.
Pope Benedict XIV ( 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758 ), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758.
Pope Clement XIII ( 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769 ), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was Pope from 16 July 1758 to 2 February 1769.
In 1758 he was appointed by that Pope to investigate the issue of the traditional blood libel regarding the Jews, which he found to be untrue.
In 1758 he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he met Patrick Henry.

1758 and admitted
He graduated from Yale in 1758 and in 1761 was admitted to the bar, he practiced law for a short time outside of Hartford before he became a merchant in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Despite the fact that he had no formal legal training, Sherman was urged to read for the bar exam by a local lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield, Connecticut in 1754, during which he wrote A Caveat Against Injustice and was chosen to represent New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1755 to 1758 and from 1760 to 1761.
in 1758, as last but one of the senior optimes, Richard Beadon, his lifelong friend, afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, being a wrangler in the same year .< ref > Horne had been admitted on 9 November 1756, as student at the Inner Temple, becoming friends with John Dunning and Lloyd Kenyon.

1758 and Royal
His father, a captain in the Royal Navy, commanded the 60-gun HMS Pembroke, with James Cook as his sailing master, during the 1758 siege of Louisbourg.
In 1758 the Fortress of Louisbourg falls and all of the civilian population of Isle Royal ( Cape Breton Island ) and Isle St. Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) are repatriated to France.
In the wake of this he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British army in North America and colonel-in-chief of the 60th ( Royal American ) Regiment in September 1758.
* Thomas Howard ( British Army officer ) ( died 1758 ), commander of the Buffs ( Royal East Kent Regiment )
In 1758 he took Henry to meetings of the Royal Society and also to dinners of the Royal Society Club.
Adam was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1758 and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1761, the same year he was appointed Architect of the King ’ s Works ( jointly with Sir William Chambers ).
Other honours were the degree of DD ( 1758 ), and those of Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
He went on to take a number of similar posts before being appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1755 and becoming one of the organists at the Chapel Royal in 1758.
In Mar 1737, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1758, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
She died at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, on the outskirts of Madrid on 27 August 1758.
In 1758 the Royal Navy ordered that ships be stocked with Cheshire and Gloucester cheeses.
* A catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with lists of their works, by Horace Walpole and Joseph Ritson, 1758
In 1761 the Royal Navy clad the hull of the frigate HMS Alarm ( 1758 ) with copper sheet to reduce the growth of marine biofouling and prevent attack by the Teredo shipworm.
For this achievement the Royal Society awarded him the Copley Medal in 1758, and three years later elected him one of its fellows.
In 1758 the first Earl assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Strangways, which was the maiden name of his wife's maternal grandmother.
David Ramsay ( c. 1740 – c. 1810 ) was a controversial figure born in Leven, Scotland, who served as a cabin boy in the British Royal Navy, participated in the siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and later acted as a courier, translator and fur and alcohol trader, in part of the lower Great Lakes region consisting of present day southern Ontario, Canada, and western New York state.
On 13 May 1758 the Corps was renamed Royal carabiniers de monsieur le Comte de Provence.
In 1758, Simpson was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
After leading the Royal Americans to Charleston, South Carolina to bolster that city's defences, the regiment was recalled to Philadelphia to take part in General John Forbes ' expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758.
* Thomas Bertie ( 1758 – 1825 ), Royal Navy admiral
Other Italian gardens with water organs were at Pratolino, near Florence ( c. 1575 ), Isola de Belvedere, Ferrara ( before 1599 ), Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome ( built by Luca Biagi in 1598, restored 1990 ), Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati ( 1620 ), one of the Royal Palaces at Naples ( 1746 ), Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome ( 1758 – 9 ).

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