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1758 in Germany
Events from the year
1758 in Germany
.
Incumbents
Electorate of Bavaria
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Maximilian III Joseph
King of Prussia
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Frederick II
Electorate of Saxony
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Augustus III
Electorate of Hanover
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George II
Duchy of Württemberg
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Charles Eugene
Grand Duke of Baden
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Charles Frederick
Events
15 March
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18 April
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5 April
â Founding of
Ludwigsburg porcelain
4 May
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2 July
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Siege of Olomouc
12 June
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Seven Years' War
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Battle of Rheinberg
23 June
â Seven Years' War –
Battle of Krefeld
: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under
Ferdinand of Brunswick
defeat the French.
30 June
â 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
Prussia
n army, guarded by strong troops of
Hans Joachim von Zieten
.
23 July
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5 August
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25 August
â Seven Years' War âÂÂ
Battle of Zorndorf
: Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
26 September
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Battle of Tornow
28 September
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Battle of Fehrbellin
10 October
â Seven Years' War âÂÂ
Battle of Lutterberg
14 October
â 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
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Battle of Güstow
December 1757 â June 1758 âÂÂ
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
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Peter Joseph Krahe
, German architect (died
1840
)
26 June
in
Schleiz
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Christian Gottlieb Reichard
, German cartographer (died
1837
)
26 July
in
Reisbach (Vils)
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Maximus von Imhof
German physicist (died
1817
)
5 October
in
Braunschweig
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August Lafontaine
, German novelist (died
1831
)
22 October
in
Hanover
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Friedrich Rehberg
, German portrait and historical painter (died
1835
)
26 October
in
Dettingen unter Teck
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Christian Friedrich von Otto
, Württemberger official and politician (died
1836
)
21 November
in
Schwedt
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Duke Eugen of Württemberg
(died
1822
)
11 December
-
Carl Friedrich Zelter
, German composer and conductor (died
1832
)
Undated
in
Troisdorf
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Moritz Kellerhoven
German portrait painter and etcher (died
1830
)
Deaths
16 January
in
Trier
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Oliver Legipont
, German Benedictine bibliographer (born
1698
)
10 May
in
Leipzig
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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher
, German academic, librarian and lexicographer (born
1694
)
28 May
in
Weimar
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Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
(born
1737
)
3 August
in
Sande, Lower Saxony
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Albert Brahms
, Frisian dike judge (born
1692
)
3 September
in
Hanover
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George William Alberti
, German essayist and theologian, (born
1723
)
References