1758 in History

Captures Cape Bretton Island

Occupies Fort Duquesne

Leads Swiss mercernaries who help the British capture Fort Duquesne

Captures Fort Frontenac at the entrance to the St Lawrence

Captures Fort Niagra

British forces capture the ill-defended fort of Saint-Louis in Senegal

Prussia captures Schweidnitz

Abercromby is recalled from Canada

Catherine Suckling Nelson is mother of Horatio Nelson.

Edmund Nelson is father of Horatio Nelson and rector of Burnham Thorpe.

Halley's predicted comet is observed again, confirming his orbital calculation after his death and strengthening Newtonian celestial mechanics.

Calculates perturbations that help predict the return of Halley's Comet under Newtonian gravity.

Observes the predicted return of Halley's Comet, confirming Newtonian celestial mechanics.

Halleys prediction of the comets return proved to be correct, although it was not seen until 25 December 1758, by Johann Georg Palitzsch, a German farmer and amateur astronome

Edmund Halley determines that the orbital elements of a comet which had appeared in 1682, were nearly the same as those of two comets which had appeared in 1531 and 1607, Halley thus concludes that they are the same comet.

Edmund Halley returns, as predicted in 1682, Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in mid-2061.

Halley's Comet is the best-known short-period comet and is visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years.

Halleys prediction of the comets return proved to be correct, although it was not seen until as late as 25 December 1758 by Johann Georg Palitzsch, a German farmer and amateur astronomer

British forces capture the ill-defended fort of Saint-Louis in Senegal

Defeated by the French at Carillon

Leads the attack on Quebec rowing into Freshwater Cove

Helps capture Louisberg on Cape Breton Island to move up the St Lawrence

1st day of the siege of Olmutz

Birth of Andre Massena

Birth of Horatio Nelson, son of Reverend Edmund Nelson and Catherine Suckling.

Birth of Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore Robespierre

Death of Benedict XIV, Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini

Takes part in the Battle of Bengal

Frefericks Army is forced to escape via a route opened up by von Ziethenss cavalry. Austria wins the Battle of Hochkirk & Frederick keeps Saxony & Silesia

Frefericks Army is forced to escape via a route opened up by von Ziethenss cavalry

Defeats the French

The Battle of Krefeld

A supply convoy is wiped out by General Loudon, his troops retreat to Konigratz

Russia takes East Prussia & makes Konigsberg swear loyalty to Empress Elizabeth. Only problems of supply force the Russians back to Russia. Frederick wins an inconclusive victory