1758 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1758 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George II of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Whig

[edit] Events

• 21 April - Thomas Secker enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 29 April - Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Cuddalore a British fleet under George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.
• 23 June - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
• 8 July - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.^[1]
• 3 August - Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Negapatam off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
• 14 September - French and Indian War: At the Battle of Fort Duquesne, a British attack on Fort Duquesne is defeated.
• 25 November - French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British who then name the area Pittsburgh.

[edit] Births

• 9 January - George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (died 1833)
• 24 January - Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (died 1844)
• February - John Pinkerton, antiquarian (died 1826)
• 4 February - George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died 1818)
• 12 February - David Ochterlony, general (died 1825)
• 23 February - Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died 1823)
• 4 April - John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (died 1810)
• 23 April
  • Alexander Hood, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1798)
  • Alexander Cochrane, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1832)
  • Philip Gidley King, naval officer and colonial administrator (died 1808)
• 15 May - Thomas Taylor, translator (died 1835)
• 17 May - Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, fossil collector (died 1839)
• 30 June - James Stephen, lawyer (died 1832)
• 25 July - Elizabeth Hamilton, writer (died 1816)
• August - Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815)
• 24 August - Edward James Eliot, politician (died 1797)
• 25 August - Israel Pellew, naval officer (died 1832)
• 1 September - George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Whig politician (died 1834)
• 9 September - Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
• 29 September - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, admiral (died 1805)
• 28 October - John Sibthorp, botanist (died 1796)
• 5 December - George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (died 1787)
• 9 December - Richard Colt Hoare, antiquarian and archaeologist (died 1838)
• date unknown
  • Watkin Tench, Marine officer (died 1833)
  • Jane West, writer (died 1852)
  • Samuel Whitbread, politician (died 1815)

[edit] Deaths

• 7 January - Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686)
• 17 January - James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, peer (born 1724)
• 10 February - Thomas Ripley, architect (born 1683)
• 6 March - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, politician (born c. 1705)
• 18 March - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693)
• 22 March - Richard Leveridge, bass and composer (born 1670)
• 6 July - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, general (killed in battle) (born c. 1725)
• 18 July - Duncan Campbell, soldier (year of birth unknown)
• 2 August - George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (born 1675)
• 12 October - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, field marshal (born 1680)
• 14 October - Francis Edward James Keith, soldier and field marshal (born 1696)
• 20 October - Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, politician (born 1706)
• 12 November - John Cockburn, politician
• 22 November - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, politician (born 1680)
• 15 December - John Dyer, poet (born 1699)
• 25 December - James Hervey, clergyman and writer (born 1714)
• date unknown
  • Theophilus Cibber, actor (born 1703)
  • Philip Southcote, landscape gardener (born 1698)

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