Apaches shunned the mission, and on March 16, 1758, a band of Comanche, Tonkawa, and Hasinai tribes, angry that the Spaniards were assisting their enemies, pillaged and burned the mission, killing eight people.

They were included in the genus Camelus along with alpaca in the Systema Naturae ( 1758 ) of Linnaeus.

Smallpox affected the Native Americans in 1677, 1679, 1687, along with measles, 1691, 1729, 1733, 1755, and finally in 1758.

John Reister purchased a tract of land, which he called " Reister's Desire ", along the Conewago Road on March 2, 1758.

Located along the Forbes road, a military road built under the command of Brigadier General John Forbes in 1758, the town became an important rest stop along the east-west route that eventually stretched from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.

Stuart and Revett's findings, published in 1762 ( first volume ) as The Antiquities of Athens, along with Julien-David Le Roy's Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce ( 1758 ) were the first accurate surveys of ancient Greek architecture.

In 1758, Carolus Linnaeus, relying on second-or third-hand accounts, placed a second species in Homo along with H. sapiens: Homo troglodytes (" cave-dwelling man ").

While this crossing was intended to replace the ferry service provided in the same area from approximately 1669 onward, the local population eventually bridled over the toll, and popular sentiment culminated in the construction of the “ Farmers ’ Free Bridge ” further south along the Spuyten Duyvil Creek in 1758.

The Petitcodiac River Campaign was a series of British military operations that occurred from June to November 1758 to deport the Acadians who either lived along the river or had taken refuge there from earlier deportations.

In 1758, the Marathas under Raghunathrao captured Multan along with Lahore, Attock, Peshawar and Kashmir.

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.

In 1758, commanding a company, he participated, along with his father ( Colonel ) and brother George ( Lieutenant ), in General John Bradstreet ’ s capture of Fort Frontenac ( now Kingston, Ontario ).

Following the siege of Fortress Louisbourg in 1758, British forces on their way to Quebec City attacked French settlements on Ile-Saint-Jean ( present-day Prince Edward Island ) and continued along the coast, where they entered the lower Miramichi River valley and destroyed and scattered the small Acadian settlements.

Jamaica's three counties were established in 1758 to facilitate the holding of courts along the lines of the British County court system.

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, 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.

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.

* 1758 – French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

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.

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 ".

Boulton, Darwin and Whitehurst were in turn introduced by Michell to Benjamin Franklin when he travelled to Birmingham in July 1758 " to improve and increase Acquaintance among Persons of Influence ", and Franklin returned in 1760 to conduct experiments with Boulton on electricity and sound.

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 )

Pitt had continued his naval descents during 1758, but the first had enjoyed only limited success and the second ended with near disaster at the Battle of St Cast and no further Descents were planned.

The Forbes Expedition was a British campaign in September – October 1758, with 6, 000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country.

His huge James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra ( 1758, now Edinburgh ) elevates tourism to the heroic, with the two travellers wearing what look very like togas.

When Adam and Maria Dorothea Struensee moved to Altona in 1758, where the elder Struensee became pastor of Marienkirche ( Mary ’ s Church ), Johann Friedrich moved with them.

Neither the serious illness of the Empress, which began with a fainting-fit at Tsarskoe Selo ( 19 September 1757 ), nor the fall of Bestuzhev ( 21 February 1758 ), nor the cabals and intrigues of the various foreign powers at Saint Petersburg, interfered with the progress of the war, and the crushing defeat of Kunersdorf ( 12 August 1759 ) at last brought Frederick to the verge of ruin.

By 1758, the fort was largely complete ; the only ongoing work thereafter consisted of dressing the walls with stone.

The first wave of the expulsion of the Acadians began with the Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ) and the second wave began after the final Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

His observation of the models executed by different sculptors of eminence, which were sent to be fired at an adjoining pottery, determined the direction of his genius ; he imitated them with so much success that in 1758 a small figure of Peace sent by him to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts received a prize, and the highest premiums given by that society were adjudged to him nine times between the years 1763 and 1776.

After June 1758, Richardson began to suffer from insomnia, and in June 1761, he was afflicted with apoplexy.

The new wing remained incomplete, with no first floor or roof, at the death of the 4th Earl in 1758 ; although a roof had been added, the interior remained undecorated by the death of Robinson in 1777.

He returned to Great Britain in 1758 and set up in business in London with his brother James Adam.

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 ).

* Mary Lum ( 1758 – 1815 ), moved here with her husband Stephen Girard in 1777 before being committed for the rest of her life to the insanity ward at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1785.

::: Anodonta Lamarck, 1799 ( Bivalvia ) was originally established with one included nominal species, Mytilus cygneus Linnæus, 1758.

Later in 1758 they joined the allied forces of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick in Germany, with the first detachment of British troops sent to the Continent.

Nearly defenseless and viewed by the Comanche as a territorial invasion, the mission was sacked in 1758 by about 2, 000 Comanches and their allies.

In 1759 ( or 1758 according to Chambers ), he went to England and became chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte.

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.

He was also a devout Buddhist with a particular devotion to Fudō myōō, to whom he gave credit for the safe birth of his son Kuzō, who went on to become Ichikawa Danjūrō II ( 1688 – 1758 ).

In 1758 he went to Lorraine, to the court of King Stanislaus, who sent him on a matter of business to visit Voltaire.

After serving his apprenticeship with a cloth-worker in Halifax, he went in 1755 to London, where in 1758 he was apprenticed to a mathematical instrument maker.