The county was formed in 1758 from Edgecombe County.

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.

In 1758 he was made the Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 72nd Regiment of Foot.

The Sandy Creek Association was formed in 1758.

It was formed in 1758 from Johnston County, though the legislative act that created it did not become effective until April 10, 1759.

It was formed on 1 September 1958 by the amalgamation of The King's Regiment ( Liverpool ) which had been raised in 1685 and The Manchester Regiment which traced its history to 1758.

In 1758, the 2nd Battalion of the 8th ( The King's ) Regiment of Foot formed the 63rd Regiment of Foot.

In 1758, the British were successful in capturing major French trading bases along the Senegal River area and formed the first Senegambia – a crown colony.

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.

In 1758, he took part in the major amphibious assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg from the French, after which he participated in the siege of Quebec City and then the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

In 1758 the French settlement was captured by a British expedition as part of the Seven Years ' War, but was later returned to France.

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.

In 1758 the eastern part of Johnston County became Dobbs County.

In 1746 part of Edgecombe County became Granville County ; in 1758 another portion became Halifax County ; and in 1777 yet another part became Nash County.

The Battle of Carillon, also known as the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War ( which was part of the global Seven Years War ).

The Qing authority resettled part of them from suburbs of Hohhot and Dolonnur to Ili after the fall of the Zunghar Khanate in c. 1758.

Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years War ), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon ; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara ; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via the St. Lawrence River.

In 1758 he and the regiment were part of General James Abercrombie's failed attack at Ticonderoga.

As supposed by Fatio and Le Sage in 1690 / 1758 ( and before them, Huygens ) matter must consist mostly of empty space so that the very small particles can penetrate the bodies nearly undisturbed and therefore every single part of matter can take part in the gravitational interaction.

In 1758 MacDonald sailed to Louisbourg which was then under siege as part of the Seven Years ' War.

He took part in the Raid on Cherbourg in 1758 and the Battle of Minden in 1759.

During the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), La Marche took part as a maréchal de camp in the Battle of Hastenbeck in July 1757 and in the Battle of Krefeld in June 1758.

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.

It was through his initiative, too, that the Convention of Klosterzeven was signed ( 10 September 1757 ), and on the 4 May 1758 he concluded a still more promising treaty with France, whereby, in consideration of Denmark's holding an army-corps of 24, 000 men in Holstein till the end of the war, to secure Hamburg, Lübeck, and the Gottorp part of Holstein from invasion, France, and ultimately Austria also, engaged to bring about an exchange between the king of Denmark and the Cesarevitch, as regards Holstein.

In June 1758, the 1st Battalion took part in an expedition against France, landing at Cancalle Bay on the Brittany coast.

In 1758, he took a prominent part in the unsuccessful Moravian campaign, after which he withdrew from the army to restore his broken health.

Besides his masterpiece, he wrote L ' Art défensif supérieur à l ' offensif ( 1793 ; in reply to attacks made upon his earliest work, La Fortification perpendiculaire, of which in later editions it forms part ); Mémoire historique sur la fonte des canons ( Paris, 1758 ), and other works on the same subject ; ( London, 1777 ); Rotation des boulets ( Acad., 1755 ); and Relations du siège de Saint-Jean-d ' Acre ( Paris, 1789 ).

From around 1758 to the mid-1770s, Chambers concentrated on building houses for the nobility, beginning with one for Lord Bessborough at Roehampton.

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.

Gage, who had been brevetted a brigadier general for the 1758 campaign, received in 1759 a full promotion to the position, largely through the political manoeuvring of his brother, Lord Gage.

Lord Howe was married on 10 March 1758 to Mary Hartop, the daughter of Colonel Chiverton Hartop of Welby in Leicestershire, and had three daughters.

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, in preparation for the attack on the French fort at Ticonderoga, which controlled access from Lake George to Lake Champlain, Lord Howe set about reforming General James Abercrombie's army for warfare in North America.

He was the son of Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier ( 1758 – 1823 ) and the father of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick ( 1819 – 1898 ).

Brought to Justice as one of the leaders of the most barbarous and execrable upheaval that, on the night of the 3rd of September 1758, was committed against the most royal and sacred person of the Lord Joseph I.

* Lord Robert Manners ( 1758 – 1782 )

* George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans ( 1758 – 1787 ) ( grandson of Lord William Beauclerk, second son of the 1st Duke, died unmarried )

It was originally created for William Crichton, 9th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, in 1633, and stayed in the Crichton family until the death of the fourth earl in 1758, at which point the title passed to first the Dalrymple and then the McDouall families before finally being inherited by the Marquesses of Bute, where it remains today.

Mary Balfour ( d. 1758 ), sister of the fifth Lord, and her husband Brigadier-General Alexander Bruce.

* Alexander Fraser, 16th Lord Saltoun ( 1758 – 1793 )

* Hugh Sempill, 14th Lord Sempill ( 1758 – 1830 )

* Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier ( 1758 – 1823 )

* Hugh Scott, de jure later de facto 6th Lord Polwarth ( 1758 – 1841 ) ( confirmed in title July 1835 )

* Robert Rollo, 4th Lord Rollo ( c. 1680 – 1758 )

He was the fourth son of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House, Lord Mayor of London in 1798, himself the fourth son of Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, Lord Mayor of London in 1758.

Lord Spencer was born at Wimbledon Park, London, the son of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer and his wife Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, daughter of Stephen Poyntz, and was baptised there on 16 October 1758.

In 1758 Theophilus Cibber obtained from William Howard, then the Lord Chamberlain, a general licence under which Foote tried to establish the Haymarket as a regular theatre.

The elder son by the second marriage, Stephen ( 1704 – 1776 ), was created Lord Ilchester and Stavordale in 1747 and Earl of Ilchester in 1756 ; in 1758 he took the additional name of Strangways, and his descendants, the family of Fox-Strangways, still hold the Earldom of Ilchester.

* Henry Harford ( 1758 – 1834 ), the last Lord Proprietor of Maryland.

The eldest of the brothers, Lord Mark Kerr, later the fourth Marquess of Lothian, commanded three squadrons of Government cavalry at the Battle of Culloden and survived to serve under the Duke of Cumberland in France in 1758.