Timeline October 1758

Events in October 1758 3

• 1696 – 1758 James Francis Edward Keith (1696-1758) Died 14 October 1758, aged 62 Born in Scotland, James Keith left Britain after the failed Jacobite rising of 1715 and rose to become a field marshal in the Prussian army under Frederick the Great. He was killed leading Prussian troops during the Austrian surprise attack at the Battle of Hochkirch on 14 October 1758. He remains one of the most prominent Scottish exiles to achieve high military rank abroad.
• 1758 Battle of Hochkirch Austria surprises Frederick the Great in a pre-dawn attack On 14 October 1758, an Austrian army under Leopold Joseph von Daun launched a surprise pre-dawn assault on Frederick the Great's camp at Hochkirch in Saxony. The Prussians were routed with heavy losses, though Frederick managed an orderly retreat and avoided a decisive Austrian follow-up. Prussian field marshal James Keith was killed in the fighting.
• 1758 – 1843 Noah Webster (1758-1843) Died 28 May 1843, aged 84 Noah Webster was an American lexicographer whose American Dictionary of the English Language of 1828 standardised American spelling. His Blue-Backed Speller taught generations of American children to read.