Historical Events That Occurred in the Year 1758

• Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
• French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg  James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
• Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl
• French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
• French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
• Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
• Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk
• French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.

• Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet
• Thomas Ripley, English architect
• Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal
• Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician
• Jonathan Edwards, American minister
• Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer
• Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist
• François d'Agincourt, French composer
• Pope Benedict XIV
• Augustus William, Prince of Prussia
• George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
• Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal
• Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal
• Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary
• Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer
• Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician
• Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer
• James Hervey, English clergyman and writer

• Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist
• James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
• André Masséna, French marshal
• Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary
• John St Aubyn, British fossil collector
• Hannah Webster Foster, American author
• Horatio Nelson, British admiral
• Horatio Nelson, British admiral
• Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer
• Noah Webster, American lexicographer