1758 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1758 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- 15 April â Samuel Johnson begins publishing the series of essays The Idler (1758â1760) in the Universal Chronicle.
- 21 April â Thomas Secker enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 24 April â Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign a contract with Edmund Burke to launch The Annual Register.
- 29 April â Seven Years' War: Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.
- 23 June â Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
- 8 July â French and Indian War: Battle of Carillon: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.[2]
- 3 August â 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 â French and Indian War: At the Battle of Fort Duquesne, a British attack on Fort Duquesne is defeated.
- 27 October â the ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves Parkgate, Cheshire, for Dublin, and founders in the Irish Sea; she carries 70,000 Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda, Theophilus Cibber, the actor, and (probably) the Irish mezzotint engraver Michael Ford.[3]
- 25 November â French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British who then name the area Pittsburgh.
- c. December â The first Magdalene institution in Britain, Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes, is founded in Whitechapel, London by Robert Dingley, Jonas Hanway and John Fielding.[4]
Births
- 9 January â George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (died 1833)
- 24 January â Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (died 1844)
- 4 February â George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died 1818)
- 12 February â David Ochterlony, general (died 1825)
- 17 February â John Pinkerton, antiquarian (died 1826)
- 23 February â Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died 1823)
- 4 April â John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (died 1810)
- 23 April
- Alexander Hood, Royal Navy officer (killed in action 1798)
- Alexander Cochrane, Royal Navy officer, admiral (died 1832)
- Philip Gidley King, Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator (died 1808)
- 30 April â Jane West, writer (died 1852)
- April â Herod, racehorse (died 1780)
- 15 May â Thomas Taylor, neoplatonist translator (died 1835)
- 17 May â Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, fossil collector (died 1839)
- 30 June â James Stephen, lawyer (died 1832)
- 25 July â Elizabeth Hamilton, writer (died 1816)
- 24 August
- Edward James Eliot, politician (died 1797)
- Thomas Picton, soldier and colonial administrator (killed in action 1815)
- 25 August â Israel Pellew, Royal Navy officer (died 1832)
- 1 September â George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Whig politician (died 1834)
- 9 September â Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
- 29 September â Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Royal Navy officer, admiral (killed in action 1805)
- 6 October â Watkin Tench, Marine officer (died 1833)
- 28 October â John Sibthorp, botanist (died 1796)
- 5 December â George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (died 1787)
- 9 December â Richard Colt Hoare, antiquarian and archaeologist (died 1838)
Deaths
- 7 January â Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686 in Scotland)
- 17 January â James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, peer (born 1724)
- 10 February â Thomas Ripley, architect (born 1683)
- 6 March â Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, politician (born c. 1705)
- 18 March â Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693)
- 22 March â Richard Leveridge, bass and composer (born 1670)
- 6 July â George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, general (killed in battle) (born c. 1725)
- 18 July â Duncan Campbell, soldier (year of birth unknown)
- 2 August â George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (born 1675)
- 2 October (bur.) â Philip Southcote, landscape gardener (born 1698)
- 12 October â Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, field marshal (born 1680)
- 14 October â Francis Edward James Keith, soldier and field marshal (born 1696)
- 20 October â Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, politician (born 1706)
- c.27/8 October â Theophilus Cibber, actor (born 1703)
- 12 November â John Cockburn, Scottish politician
- 22 November â Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, politician (born 1680)
- 15 December â John Dyer, poet (born 1699)
- 25 December â James Hervey, clergyman and writer (born 1714)