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.

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.

Pope Clement XIII ( 1758 – 69 ) appointed him Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna in 1759, at the insistence of Lorenzo Ricci, the General of the Jesuits.

William Shirley, former governor of Massachusetts, was appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1758 and served until 1770.

In 1758, putting an end to an engagement to be married ( Pastor 1952 ) he was ordained priest, and in 1766 appointed treasurer of the camera apostolica by Pope Clement XIII ( 1758 – 69 ).

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.

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 ).

He served under Wolfe on the Rochefort expedition of 1757, when he first met Shelburne, and afterwards in Canada where he was appointed adjutant-general, fighting at both Louisbourg ( 1758 ) and Quebec ( 1759 ).

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.

The father of the first Hamilton Fish, Nicholas Fish ( born 1758 ), an officer in the Continental Army and later appointed adjutant general of New York State by Governor George Clinton.

He was later appointed the Luang Yokkrabat ( Governor of ) Ratchaburi by King Ekatat in 1758.

In 1758 Home became private secretary to Lord Bute, then secretary of state, and was appointed tutor to the prince of Wales ; and in 1760 his patron's influence procured him a pension of £ 300 per annum and in 1763 a sinecure worth another £ 500.

In 1758 he was appointed by the Assembly of New Jersey to serve as a commissioner to the state's Indian tribes.

In 1758, he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, then one of Britain ’ s American colonies.

In 1757 a second battalion ( 2nd / 33rd ) had been raised and in 1758 this battalion became an independent regiment, the 72nd Regiment of Foot: Richmond was appointed Colonel of the new regiment and his younger brother George Lennox took command of the 33rd Regiment ( 1st / 33rd ).

When Bedford was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1758, in a time of relative peace, Rigby accompanied him as Secretary ; the following year he was appointed Master of the Rolls there.

Originally ( in 1758 ), the Legislature consisted of the Governor ( later a Lieutenant Governor ), the appointed Council ( upper chamber ) ( which met in the Red Chamber shown on the right and now used for committee meetings and social functions ) and the elected House of Assembly ( lower chamber ).

He was appointed a major of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 20 December 1756, transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758, and on 14 December 1761, lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot, before in May 1762, transferring to the 50th Regiment of Foot, with which regiment he served in Germany during the Seven Years War.

He was appointed as a Member of the Council at Fort St. George, Madras between 1754 and 1758.

* 1740 – 1758: Pope Benedict XIV, appointed first women as professors to Papal Universities in Bologna, reformed canonization procedures, intellectual open to all sciences ;

The commissioners of the Society for propagating the gospel appointed him pastor of the Indian tribes at Mashpee, Massachusetts, where he was installed in April 1758 and remained as a missionary until his death in 1807.

On 29 December 1758, Josiah was appointed to the New York royal council, a position once held by his uncle.