1758

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s

Years: 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763

• December 25 - Halley's Comet appears
• First European settlement in what is now Erie County[?] by the French at the mouth of Buffalo Creek[?].
• Pope Clement XIII ascends to papacy
• Rudjer Boscovich publishes his atomic theory in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium

Births

• April 28 - James Monroe, later 5th President of the United States.
• May 6 - Maximilian Robespierre, French revolutionary.
• September 29 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral.
• October 16 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer.
• Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii
• Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan

Deaths

• Pope Benedict XIV