1758 in Germany

Events from the year 1758 in Germany.

Incumbents

• Electorate of Bavaria – Maximilian III Joseph
• King of Prussia – Frederick II
• Electorate of Saxony – Augustus III
• Electorate of Hanover – George II
• Duchy of Württemberg – Charles Eugene
• Grand Duke of Baden – Charles Frederick

Events

• 15 March – 18 April –
• 5 April – Founding of Ludwigsburg porcelain
• 4 May – 2 July – Siege of Olomouc
• 12 June – Seven Years' War – Battle of Rheinberg
• 23 June – Seven Years' War – Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
• 30 June – Seven Years' War – Battle of Domstadtl: Austrian forces under Ernst Gideon von Laudon and Joseph von Siskovits rout an enormous convoy with supplies for the Prussian army, guarded by strong troops of Hans Joachim von Zieten.
• 23 July –
• 5 August –
• 25 August – Seven Years' War – Battle of Zorndorf: Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
• 26 September – Battle of Tornow
• 28 September – Battle of Fehrbellin
• 10 October – Seven Years' War – Battle of Lutterberg
• 14 October – Seven Years' War: Battle of Hochkirch: Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal Leopold von Daun, who besieges Dresden.
• 18 November – Battle of Güstow
• December 1757 – June 1758 – Blockade of Stralsund

Undated

• Siege of Küstrin
• Construction of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Saarbrücken is completed.
• German company MAN is founded.

Births

• 8 April in Mannheim – Peter Joseph Krahe, German architect (died 1840)
• 26 June in Schleiz – Christian Gottlieb Reichard, German cartographer (died 1837)
• 26 July in Reisbach (Vils) – Maximus von Imhof German physicist (died 1817)
• 5 October in Braunschweig – August Lafontaine, German novelist (died 1831)
• 22 October in Hanover – Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter (died 1835)
• 26 October in Dettingen unter Teck – Christian Friedrich von Otto, Württemberger official and politician (died 1836)
• 21 November in Schwedt – Duke Eugen of Württemberg (died 1822)
• 11 December - Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer and conductor (died 1832)
• Undated in Troisdorf – Moritz Kellerhoven German portrait painter and etcher (died 1830)

Deaths

• 16 January in Trier – Oliver Legipont, German Benedictine bibliographer (born 1698)
• 10 May in Leipzig – Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, German academic, librarian and lexicographer (born 1694)
• 28 May in Weimar – Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1737)
• 3 August in Sande, Lower Saxony – Albert Brahms, Frisian dike judge (born 1692)
• 3 September in Hanover – George William Alberti, German essayist and theologian, (born 1723)

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