Born in 1758:
Died in 1758:
Events of 1758:
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French and Indian War/Seven Years' War:
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Benjamin Franklin publishes The Way to Wealth, a summary of his advice
from Poor Richard's Almanack.
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Carolus Linnaeus publishes the founding work of biological taxonomy,
Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum
classes, ordines, genera, species, cim characteribus, differentiis, synonymis,
locis.
- Astronomers sight the comet which Edmund Halley had predicted in 1704 would return this year. This is a triumph for Newtonian mechanics, and the comet is named in Halley's honor. (The comet reached perhelion the following March).
P.S. Kamehameha was born in 1738.
1757 - 1758 - 1759
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