Information about 1758 In Great Britain
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- 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.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 319. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- 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.
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)
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- Watkin Tench, Marine officer (died 1833)
- Jane West, writer (died 1852)
- Samuel Whitbread, politician (died 1815)
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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- 2 January - Robert Clive captures Calcutta, India.
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- 15 January - The British Museum opens in London.
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Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state in Western Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merger of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, under the Acts of Union 1707, to create a single
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Seven Years' War(i) (1754 and 1756–1763), incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian War, enveloped both European and colonial theatres. It is estimated that between 900,000 and 1,400,000 people died.
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The naval Battle of Cuddalore took place on 29 April 1758 during the Seven Years' War near Cuddalore off the Carnatic coast of India and was an indecisive battle between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral George Pocock and French squadron under Comte d'Aché.
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Not to be confused with George Pocock (inventor).
Sir George Pocock, KB (March 6 1706-April 3 1792) was a British admiral, son of Thomas Pocock, chaplain in the navy, entered the navy under the protection of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master..... Click the link for more information.
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Battle of Krefeld (sometimes referred to by its French name of Créfeld) was a battle fought on June 23 1758 between a Hanoverian army and a French army during the Seven Years' War.
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Ferdinand (12 January 1721, Brunswick – 3 July 1792), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a Prussian field marshal (1758–1766) known for his participation in the Seven Years' War.
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Location: Ticonderoga, NY
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The Battle of Negapatam was an indecisive battle between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral George Pocock and French squadron under Comte d'Aché off the Carnatic coast of India near Negapatam during the Seven Years' War. The battle took place on 3 August 1758.
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Battle of Fort Duquesne was a failed attempt by elements of [General John Forbes]]'s British-American army to harass Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley during the French and Indian War.
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Fort Duquesne (originally called Fort Du Quesne) was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, KG, PC (9 January 1758 – 19 July 1833) was the son of the 1st Marquess of Stafford.
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