Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1758
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Literature
- Elizabeth Carter, translation of Epictetus
- Denis Diderot, Pere du famille, Discours sur la poésie
dramatique
- Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, vols. 5-6
- Edward Gibbon, Essai sur l'étude de la littérature
- Charlotte Lennox, Henrietta
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles
- Edward Gibbon returns to England from the Continent
- Samuel Johnson begins publishing The Idler (through 1760)
- Horace Walpole, Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors
Theatre
Art
Music
- William Boyce appointed organist at the Chapel Royal
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Politics & Law
- England begins its political (as opposed to merely economic) domination
of India
- July: Louisbourg is taken
- Duquesne is taken, and renamed Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh)
- Lord Kames, Historical Law Tracts
Philosophy & Theology
Milestones
- Death of John Dyer
- Death of Jonathan Edwards
- Birth of Franz Joseph Gall
- Death of James Hervey
- Birth of E. C. Knight
- Birth of Horatio Nelson
- Death of Allan Ramsay, poet
Miscellaneous
- Construction begins on a canal between Liverpool and Leeds
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