Amherst gained fame during the Seven Years ' War, particularly in the North American campaign known in the United States as the French and Indian War when he led the British attack on Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in June 1758.

Howell's account of this incident ( 1758 ) obtained wide circulation in England and some claim this gained support for the East India Company's conquest of India.

Lemierre gained his first success on the stage with Hypermnestre ( 1758 ); Titre ( 1761 ) and Idomne ( 1764 ) failed on account of the subjects.

He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who sent him to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht at the court of Bayreuth in 1758, and then sent him to Italy ( 1764-66 ), and made him Kapellmeister.

Several French paintings entered the collection as part of the 260 paintings and miniatures ( not all the works were French, for example Carlo Crivelli's Virgin and Child ) that formed part of the Jones bequest of 1882 and as such are displayed in the galleries of continental art 1600-1800, including the portrait of François, Duc d ' Alençon by François Clouet, Gaspard Dughet and works by François Boucher including his portrait of Madame de Pompadour dated 1758, Jean François de Troy, Jean-Baptiste Pater and their contemporaries.

Image: François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, Mistress of Louis XV ( 1758 ). jpg | François Boucher-Madame de Pompadour, Mistress of Louis XV, 1758

Two anonymous works, Lettres à mon fils ( Geneva, 1758 ) and Mes moments heureux ( Geneva, 1759 ), are also by Madame d ' Epinay.

Laclède had four children with Madame Chouteau: Jean Pierre ( 1758 ), Marie Pelagie ( 1760 ), Marie Louise ( 1762 ), and Victoire ( 1764 ) Chouteau.

By 1758, Marie Therese ( known as Madame Chouteau or Widow Chouteau ) had met and began living with Pierre de Laclede Liguest ( commonly known as Laclede ) in a common-law marriage.

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

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.

* Le père de famille ( 1758 )

Founded as the Dragones de la Reina ( Queen's Dragoons ) in 1758 and later renamed the Dragoons of Chile in 1812, and then becoming the Carabineros de Chile in 1903.

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

In this group, the explorer Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz may be the first historian of Louisiana with his Histoire de la Louisiane ( 3 vols., Paris, 1758 ; 2 vols., London, 1763 )

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 ".

The excellent location of St. Louis caught the attention of English who occupied it three times for a few months in 1693, then during the Seven Years ' War of 1758 until it was taken by the Duc de Lauzun in 1779, lastly 1809 in 1816.

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* July 6 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist ( d. 1758 )

* August 22 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal ( d. 1758 )

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.

The Triumvirate arose in 1771, when Louis XV banished Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1758, and reshuffled the cabinet.

* Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix ( 1758 – 1830 ), French zoologist

Architects ' first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce Paris, 1758 ( Plate XX )

* Henri-Joseph Blanquart de Bailleul ( 1758 – 1841 ), former mayor of Calais.

* Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), French revolutionary leader

Sacred Heart Catholic Church ( 1899 building ) in Menard: On the right outside wall of the church is a plaque recalling the massacre and destruction in 1758 of the Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá three miles to the east of Menard.

DeBernis became secretary for foreign affairs on 27 June 1757, but owing to his attempts to counteract the spendthrift policy of the marquise de Pompadour and her creatures, he fell into disgrace and was in December 1758 banished to Soissons by Louis XV, where he remained in retirement for six years.

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.

In the South the Presbyterians were evangelical dissenters, mostly Scots-Irish Americans who expanded into Virginia between 1740 and 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.

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 ).

The County is named after John Paulding ( October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818 ), who was famous for the capture of the British spy Major John André in 1780 during the American Revolution.

Born in Lambeth, London, the son of a Welsh millwright who died c. 1758.

On April 22, 1760, Contoocook Plantation was incorporated as a town by Governor Benning Wentworth, who named it for Edward Boscawen, the British admiral who distinguished himself at the 1758 Siege of Louisbourg.

Initially, Franz Joseph Gall ( 1758 – 1828 ) claimed his very popular theory of Phrenology and localization of function in the brain, but it was attacked by Pierre Flourens ( 1794 – 1867 ) who claimed that, by careful ablation of various brain regions, he had disproved Gall's hypotheses.

Its opening sentence: " Heaven helps those who help themselves ", provides a variation of " God helps them that help themselves ", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac ( 1733 – 1758 ).

An Act was obtained on 9 June 1758, for this extended route, and created Commissioners, who must own an estate valued at more than £ 100, or have a personal fortune of more than £ 3, 000.

It took the Commissioners two years to agree who should carry out the work, but on 22 June 1758, John Smith jnr from Attercliffe, Yorkshire was contracted to construct 20 pound locks, 20 horse haling bridges and various other works at a cost of £ 14, 070.

This continued until 1758, when a local brewer, John Lewis, took the gatekeeper, who stopped him from entering the park, to court.

The Lower Avon Navigation between Evesham and the River Severn was leased by George Perrott in 1758, who spent over £ 4, 000 upgrading the locks and weirs to enable 40 tonne barges to navigate the river.

Meanwhile, the Upper Avon Navigation between Stratford and Evesham was owned by relatives of Lord Windsor, who had died in 1758, and its condition gradually deteriorated.

Because of the ongoing conflicts with the Marathas the Mysorean treasury was virtually bankrupted, prompting the queen mother to force into exile Nanjaraj, who had assumed the position of dalwai upon his brother's death in 1758.

The history of Travancore began with Marthanda Varma, who inherited the kingdom of Thrippappur, and expanded it into Travancore during his reign ( 1729 – 1758 ).

Marthanda Varma's successor Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma ( 1758 – 1798 ) who was popularly known as Dharma Raja, shifted the capital in 1795 from Padmanabhapuram to Thiruvananthapuram.

In 1758, influenced by Woolman, the Philadelphia Yearly meeting altered its traditional policy so that henceforth all members who bought or sold Negroes were to be excluded from business meetings or from making contributions to the Society.

Others were Michael Sadler ( 1780 – 1835 ), a Wesleyan Methodist, who had a business importing Irish linen ; Richard Oastler ( 1789 – 1861 ), a land agent from a Wesleyan background ; Edwin Chadwick ( 1800 – 1890 ) who had been Bentham's secretary and Robert Owen ( 1771 – 1758 ).

In 1758, Howard married Henrietta Leeds who died in 1765, a week after giving birth to a son, also named John, who was sent to boarding school at a very young age.