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.

Washington represented Frederick County in his first elective offices, having been elected to the House of Burgesses in 1758 and 1761.

During the war in 1758, at the age of 26, Colonel George Washington was elected to represent Frederick County to the House of Burgesses.

In 1758 Bézout was elected an adjoint in mechanics of the French Academy of Sciences.

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 ).

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.

In 1758, Howe was elected a Member of Parliament for Nottingham, succeeding to the seat vacated by his brother George's death.

For this achievement the Royal Society awarded him the Copley Medal in 1758, and three years later elected him one of its fellows.

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 ).

At the election in 1758, he was placed on the roll for admission as a scholar at the college, and was duly elected a " poor scholar ".

The pinnacle of the Rezzonico's power and the Palazzo's grandeur came in 1758, when Carlo, son of Giambattista Rezzonico, was elected Pope as Clement XIII, the same year Ludovico Rezzonico married Faustina Savorgnan in Venice.

In 1758, Simpson was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Shipley was elected a " perpetual member " of the society in February 1755, and was presented with a gold medal by the society in 1758.

He was elected a deputy to the Crown Tribunal and the Sejms of 1752, 1754, 1758, 1766 and 1767 – 1768 ( the infamous Repnin Sejm ).

In 1758, after the death of the archbishop, he was elected archbishop.

was only elected on 6 February 1758, owing to several refusals.

Plater was first elected to Maryland's colonial Assembly in 1758, and served as a member for many years.

In April, 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1758, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1758, Deparcieux was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

McKinly was elected Sheriff of New Castle County in 1757, served 4 three year terms as Chief Burgess of the town of Wilmington between 1758 and 1776.