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1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 11 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
January 13 - The Távora family is executed following the accusation of attempted regicide on Joseph I of Portugal
January 15 - The British Museum opens
April 13 - a French army defeats Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick at Brunswick
June 27 - British Troops under Jeffrey Amherst take Fort Ticonderoga
July 25 - Seven Years' War (French and Indian War ): In Canada , British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé .
August 1 - Battle 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 10 - Ferdinand 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 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 10 - Naval 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 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 20 - Battle of Quiberon Bay - The English fleet of Sir Edward Hawke defeats a French fleet under Hubert 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 6 - The Germantown Union School (now called "Germantown Academy "), America's oldest nonsectarian day school, is founded.
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 .
Ongoing events
Births
Deaths
March 11 - 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 )
September 10 - Ferdinand Konščak , Croatian explorer (b. 1703 )
September 13 - James Wolfe , British general (b. 1727 )
September 14 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , French general (b. 1712 )
October 13 - John Henley , English minister (b. 1692 )
November 29 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (b. 1687 )
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