Great Britain-related events during the year of 1758
Events from the year 1758 in Great Britain .
15 April – Samuel Johnson begins publishing the series of essays The Idler (1758–1760) in the Universal Chronicle .
21 April – Thomas Secker enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury .
24 April – Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign a contract with Edmund Burke to launch The Annual Register .
29 April – 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 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld : Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
8 July – French and Indian War : Battle of Carillon : French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York .[ 2]
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.
27 October – 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 – French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British who then name the area Pittsburgh . 9 January – George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (died 1833 )
24 January – Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (died 1844 )
4 February – George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died 1818 )
12 February – David Ochterlony , general (died 1825 )
17 February – John Pinkerton , antiquarian (died 1826 )
23 February – Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died 1823 )
4 April – John Hoppner , English portrait-painter (died 1810 )
23 April
30 April – Jane West , writer (died 1852 )
April – Herod , racehorse (died 1780 )
15 May – Thomas Taylor , neoplatonist 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 )
24 August
25 August – Israel Pellew , Royal Navy 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 , Royal Navy officer, admiral (killed in action 1805 )
6 October – Watkin Tench , Marine officer (died 1833 )
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 ) 7 January – Allan Ramsay , poet (born 1686 in Scotland)
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 )
2 October (bur.) – Philip Southcote , landscape gardener (born 1698 )
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 )
c.27/8 October – Theophilus Cibber , actor (born 1703 )
12 November – John Cockburn , Scottish 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 )