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Thu Oct 12 2000 at 4:15:58
Born in 1758:
English writer
Mary Darby Robinson
.
French politician
Maximillien Robespierre
, force behind the
French Revolution
's
Reign of Terror
as leader of the
Committee of Public Safety
.
British naval hero
Horatio Nelson
.
American lexicographer
Noah Webster
.
German
physician
Franz Joseph Gall
.
German physician and astronomer
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers
.
Henry Harford
, last Lord Proprietor of
Maryland
, the illegitimate son of
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
.
James Monroe
, fifth
President of the United States
.
Died in 1758:
Johnathan Edwards
, leader of
the Great Awakening
.
Scottish poet
Allan Ramsay
.
German composer
Johann Friederich Fasch
.
Sophie Wilhelmine
, composer and sister of King
Frederick the Great
of Prussia.
Swedish composer
Johan Helmich Roman
.
Pope
Benedict XIV
.
Carlo Rezzonico
is elected to succeed him; taking the name
Clement XIII
.
Italian
painter
Rosalba Giovanna Carriera
.
Events of 1758:
French and Indian War
/
Seven Years' War
:
The
British
capture
Fort Duquesne
and rename it
Fort Pitt
, later
Pittsburgh
.
Colonel William Rogers
loses a large part of his company of
Rangers
in
The Battle on Snowshoes
near
Lake George
in upstate
New York
.
the British capture
Louisbourg
on
Cape Breton Island
,
Nova Scotia
Prussia
and
Russia
beat each other to a bloody pulp at the battle of
Zorndorf
Benjamin Franklin
publishes
The Way to Wealth
, a summary of his advice from
Poor Richard's Almanack
.
Carolus Linnaeus
publishes the founding work of biological taxonomy,
Systema naturae
per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cim characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Astronomers sight the
comet
which
Edmund Halley
had predicted in
1704
would return this year. This is a triumph for
Newtonian mechanics
, and the comet is named
in Halley's honor
. (The comet reached
perhelion
the
following March
).
P.S.
Kamehameha
was born in
1738
.
1757
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Alexander Hood
Henry Harford
Rudjer Boskovic
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Crab Nebula
French and Indian War
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Noah Webster
Cape rain frog
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
758
Bob Foor
Louisbourg
Franz Gall
Kamehameha I
Mary Robinson
Olbers' Paradox
Jonathan Edwards
Poor Richard's Almanack
The Great Awakening
Horatio Nelson