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List of state leaders in 1759
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1759 was a
common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
*
George Washington marries
Martha Dandridge Custis
*
Adam Smith publishes ''Theory of Moral Sentiments'', embodying some of his Glasgow lectures
* Publication of
Voltaire's ''
Candide''
* The town of
Egedesminde (modern
Aasiaat) is founded in
Greenland.
* Guinness Brewery founded in Dublin.
* Churton Town, the
Orange County, North Carolina 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, North Carolina Hillsborough in
1766.
January
*
January 11 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life
Insurance insurance company is incorporated.
*
January 13 - The
Tavora affair Távora family is executed following the accusation of attempted regicide on
Joseph I of Portugal
*
January 15 - The
British Museum opens
February
March
April
*
April 14 - a
France French army defeats
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick at Brunswick
May
June
*
June 27 - British Troops under
Jeffrey's Amherst take Fort Ticonderoga
July
*
July 25 -
Seven Years' War (
French and Indian War): In
Canada, British forces capture
Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon
Fort Rouillé.
August
*
August 1 -
Battle of Minden - Anglo-Hanoverian forces under
Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French army of the
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie Duc de Broglie, but due to the disobedience of the English cavalry commander
Lord George Germain Lord George Sackville, the French are able to withdraw unmolested.
*
August 10 -
Ferdinand VI of Spain dies and is succeeded by his half-brother
Charles III of Spain Charles III. Charles resigns the thrones of Naples and Sicily to his third son,
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand IV.
*
August 12 -
Battle of Kunersdorf -
Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults on the combined Austro-Russian army of
Peter Soltikov and
Gideon von Loudon. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats.
*
August 18 -
Battle of Lagos - The British fleet of
Edward Boscawen defeats a French force under Commodore de la Clue off the Portuguese coast.
September
*
September 10 -
Battle 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 13 -
Seven Years' War (
French and Indian War):
Quebec falls to British forces following
James Wolfe General Wolfe's victory in the
Battle of the Plains of Abraham just outside the city. Both the French Commander (the
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm Marquis de Montcalm) and the British General
James Wolfe are fatally wounded.
October
November
*
November 20 -
Battle of Quiberon Bay - The English fleet of
Edward Hawke 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 21 -
Battle of Maxen - the Austrian army of Marshal von Daun cuts off and foces the surrender of a Prussian force under
Friedrich von Finck.
December
*
December 6 - The
Germantown Union School (now called "
Germantown Academy"), America's oldest nonsectarian day school, is founded.
Ongoing events
*
French and Indian War (
1754-
1763)
*
Seven Years' War (
1756-
1763)
Births
*
January 25 -
Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d.
1796)
*
February 15 -
Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist and archaeologist (d.
1824)
*
May 20 -
William Thornton, American architect (d.
1828)
*
May 28 -
William Pitt the Younger,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1806)
*
June 21 -
Alexander J. Dallas (statesman) Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d.
1817)
*
September 19 -
William Kirby, English entomologist (d.
1850)
*
October 25 -
Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, empress of
Paul I of Russia (d.
November 5,
1828)
*
October 26 -
Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d.
1794)
*
November 10 -
Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d.
1805)
Deaths
*
March 11 -
John Forbes (General) John Forbes, British general (b.
1710)
*
April 14 -
George Friderich Handel, German composer (b.
1685)
*
May 12 -
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b.
1700)
*
July 27 -
Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b.
1698)
*
August 6 -
Eugene Aram, English philologist (b.
1704)
*
August 8 -
Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer
*
August 10 - King
Ferdinand VI of Spain (b.
1713)
*
August 24 -
Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b.
1715)
*
September 10 -
Ferdinand KonÅ¡Ä?ak, Croatian explorer (b.
1703)
*
September 13 -
James Wolfe, British general (b.
1727)
*
September 14 -
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (b.
1712)
*
October 10 -
Granville Elliott, British military officer (b.
1713)
*
October 13 -
John Henley, English minister (b.
1692)
*
November 29 -
Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b.
1687)
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