1759

1759

Year 1759 (MDCCLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1759

January – June

* January 6George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
* January 11 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
* January 13 – The Távora family is executed following accusations of the attempted regicide of Joseph I of Portugal.
* January 15 – The British Museum opens (after 6 years of development).
* April 14Seven Years WarBattle of Bergen: A French army defeats Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.
* June 27Seven Years War (French and Indian War): British troops under Jeffrey Amherst take Fort Ticonderoga.

July – December


* July 25Seven Years' War (French and Indian War): In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
* July 26Seven Years' War (French and Indian War): At the southern end of Lake Champlain, British forces capture Fort Carillon from French, and rename it Fort Ticonderoga.
* August 1Battle of Minden: Anglo–Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French army of the Duc de Broglie, but due to the disobedience of the English cavalry commander Lord George Sackville, the French are able to withdraw unmolested.
* August 10Ferdinand VI of Spain dies and is succeeded by his half–brother Charles III. Charles resigns the thrones of Naples and Sicily to his third son, Ferdinand IV.
* August 12Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults on the combined Austro–Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and Ernst von Laudon. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats.
* August 18Battle of Lagos: The British fleet of Edward Boscawen defeats a French force under Commodore Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran off the Portuguese coast.
* September 10Battle of Pondicherry: An inconclusive naval battle is fought off the coast of India between the French Admiral d'Aché and the British under George Pocock. The French forces are badly damaged and returned home, never to return.
* September 13Seven Years' War (French and Indian War): Quebec falls to British forces following General Wolfe's victory in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham just outside the city. Both the French Commander (the Marquis de Montcalm) and the British General James Wolfe are fatally wounded.
* November 20Battle of Quiberon Bay: The British fleet of Sir Edward Hawke defeats a French fleet under Marshal de Conflans near the coast of Brittany. This is the decisive naval engagement of the Seven Years' War – after this, the French are no longer able to field a significant fleet.
* November 21Battle of Maxen: The Austrian army of Marshal von Daun cuts off and forces the surrender of a Prussian force under Friedrich von Finck.
* December 6 – The Germantown Union School (now called "Germantown Academy"), America's oldest nonsectarian day school, is founded.

Undated

* Adam Smith publishes his "Theory of Moral Sentiments", embodying some of his Glasgow lectures.
* Voltaire's "Candide" is published.
* The town of Egedesminde (modern Aasiaat) is founded in Greenland.
* The Famous Guinness Brewery is founded in St. James's Gate, Dublin Ireland.
* Churton Town, the Orange County, North Carolina county seat laid out in 1754, is renamed Childsburgh in honor of North Carolina attorney general Thomas Child. It is later renamed Hillsborough in 1766.
* Fire destroys 250 houses in Stockholm.
* The French government authorizes Madame du Coudray to carry her instruction "throughout the realm" and promises financial support.

Ongoing events

* French and Indian War (17541763)
* Seven Years' War (17561763)

Births


* January 25Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
* February 15Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist and archaeologist (d. 1824)
* February 22Claude Lecourbe, French general (d. 1815)
* 27 AprilMary Wollstonecraft, feminist author (d. 1797)
* May 20William Thornton, American architect (d. 1828)
* May 28William Pitt the Younger, statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
* June 21Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
* August 24William Wilberforce, British abolitionist (d. 1833)
* September 19William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
* October 25Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, empress of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
* October 25William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1834)
* October 26Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
* November 10Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)

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Deaths

* January 12Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, regent of Friesland (b. 1709)
* March 11 – John Forbes, British general (b. 1707)
* April 6Johann Gottfried Zinn (b. 1727)
* April 14George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
* May 12Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
* July 27Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
* August 6Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
* August 8Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
* August 10 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
* August 24Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
* September 10Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
* September 13James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)
* September 14Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (b. 1712)
* October 13John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
* November 14- Grégoire Orlyk, Ukrainian-born French Lieutenant General (b. 1702)
* November 29Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
*"date unknown" – King Thipchakre of the Realm of Lampang

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