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1758| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1743–1760 | North America [town planning] | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1758 | England [art] | English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints The Artist's Daughter with a Cat. | | 1758 | Scotland [art] | Scottish artist Allan Ramsay paints Portrait of Dr William Hunter. | | c. 1758 | America [art] | The North American artist John Singleton Copley – America's first major artist – paints Portrait of Mary and Elizabeth Royall. | | 6 May 1758 | France [births and deaths] | Maximilien François Robespierre, French Jacobin leader during the French Revolution, born in Arras, France (–1794). | | 25 August 1758 | Prussia, Russia, Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Poland [Seven Years War (1754–62)] | The Battle of Zorndorf (in the Prussian province of Neumark) is fought between the Prussians, led by King Frederick II the Great, and Russian troops under the Russian general Count William Fermor. Here Frederick defeats the Russians: it is one of the bloodiest encounters of the Seven Years' War and Fermor withdraws by stages into Poland; Brandenburg Prussia is saved. | | 29 September 1758 | England, France [births and deaths] | Horatio Nelson, British naval commander who won decisive battles against France in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England (–1805). | | 14 October 1758 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Saxony, Germany [Seven Years War (1754–62)] | The Austrians gain a victory at Hochkirch, Saxony, against Prussia, in thick fog. James Keith, King Frederick II the Great of Prussia's brother-in-law, Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, five other generals, and more than a quarter of the Prussian army are killed. |
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