Editing 1758 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Hochkirch]]: Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal [[Count Leopold Joseph von Daun|Leopold von Daun]], who besieges [[Dresden]].
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: French and Indian War: French forces abandon [[Fort Duquesne]] to the British, who then name the area [[Pittsburgh]]. 
* [[December 13]] &ndash; The ship ''[[Duke William (ship)|Duke William]]'' sinks in the North Atlantic, with the loss of over 360 lives, while deporting [[Acadians]] from [[Prince Edward Island]] to France.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Halley's Comet]] is sighted by [[Johann Georg Palitzsch]], confirming [[Edmund Halley]]'s 1705 prediction of its periodicity.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Messier's "Notes on my comets"|url=http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/history/notes-c.html|quote=It was discovered, [...] at Aprohlis, near Dresden, by a farmer named Palitzsch, on the 25th of December 1758[...]}}</ref>