What is 1758?
{{Year nav|1758}} {{C18 year in topic}} [[File:British burning warship Prudent and capturing Bienfaisant. Siege of Louisbourg 1758. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, M55.7.1.jpg|thumb|right|[[June 8]]: [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]]]] {{Year article header|1758}} == Events == === Date not known === * [[Rudjer Boscovich]] makes his [[atomic theory]], in {{lang|la|Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium}}. * A fire destroys a bit of [[Oslo|Christiania]], [[Norway]]. * J. R. Geigy(later named to [[Novartis]]), a global [[pharmaceutical]] brand was founded in [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]]. == Births == * [[January 6]] &#x2013; [[Charles Ganilh]], French economist, politician (d. [[1836]]) * [[January 9]] &#x2013; [[George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland]] (d. [[1833]]) * [[January 11]] &#x2013; [[François Louis Bourdon]], French Revolutionary politician (d. [[1797]]) * [[January 17]] &#x2013; [[Marie Anne Simonis]], Belgian textile industrialist (d. [[1831]]) * [[January 20]] &#x2013; [[Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze]], French chemist (d. [[1836]]) * [[January 24]] &#x2013; [[Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough]] (d. [[1844]]) * [[February 1]] ** [[Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès]], French orator, politician (d. [[1805]]) ** [[David Ochterlony]], Massachusetts-born general with the [[East India Company]] (d. [[1825]]) * [[February 2]] &#x2013; [[George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley]] (d. [[1818]]) * [[February 3]] ** [[Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier]] of Great Britain (d. [[1823]]) ** [[Vasily Kapnist]], Ukrainian poet, playwright (d. [[1823]]) * [[February 10]] &#x2013; [[Amalia Holst]], German writer, intellectual, and feminist (d. [[1829]]) * [[February 17]] &#x2013; [[John Pinkerton]], British antiquarian (d. [[1826]]) * [[February 25]] &#x2013; [[Joseph McDowell (General)|Joseph McDowell]], U.S. Representative for North Carolina (d. [[1799]]) * [[February 28]] &#x2013; [[Nicolas François, Count Mollien]], French financier (d. [[1850]