1759

events

politics

• 15. January: the British museum in London opens
• 13. April: Battle with mountains
• 25. June: the British occupy away the Ticonderoga at the Lake George 26, vacated by
• the Frenchmen. June: the British land surprisingly with Québec (Canada) and begin the FE storage of this French fortress
• 23. July: BattleKay: Prussia by the Russians are destroying struck
• July: the Russians occupy under count Saltykow Frankfurt at the or
• 24. July: a French attempt to break through the British FE storage ring over away Niagara at the Ontariosee fails with thatdestroying defeat in the battle with La bark Famille
• 25. July: the French garrison from away Niagara capitulates before the Britisher
• 1. August: Ferdinand of Braunschweig Lueneburg defeats the Frenchmen in the battle with Minden
• 12. August - Friedrich II. in the battle by Kunersdorf by Austrian and Russian federations heavily one strikes (under the direction of Saltykow and the livländischen general baron von Laudon)
• 25. September: Battle of Hoyerswerda
• 3. September: the Jesuitenorden becomesby prime ministers Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello Pombal from Portugal drove
• 13 out. September: The British under James wolf defeat the Frenchmen under Louis Joseph de Montcalm in the battle on the Abraham level and create thereby the condition for thoseConquest of Québec
• 18. September: The French garrison of Québec capitulates before the Britisher
• 20. November: 12.500 Prussian soldiers under general Finck capitulate with Maxen (also „the Finckenfang is called “)
• 4. December: Battle of Meissen

• the FrenchMediterranean and Atlantic fleet by the English naval victories before Lagos and Quiberon destroys

• the Spanish king Ferdinand VI. dies. His successor king Karl III. the reform politics affected by the French clearing-up sets away

science

• the Bavarian academythe sciences based
• Robert Symmer publishes its chiliastische theory of the electricity (with the fluid hypothesis)
• Josef Merlin invents the roller skate

culture

• 5. November: Premiere of the musical drama Ippolito OD Aricia of Ignaz wood farmer in Mannheim
• 24. November: Premiere of the opera the new bent devil of Joseph Haydn in Vienna
• Joseph Haydn composes its first symphony

born

• 5. January: Jacques Cathelineau, French general of the Vendéer († 1793)
• 25. January: Robert Burns, Scottish writer and poet († 1796)
• 31. January: François Devienne, French seamist († 1803)
• 1. February: Karl Friedrich Hensler, theatre manager († 1825)
• 3. February: Johann Maria Philipp Frimontof Palota, Austrian Kavalleriegeneral († 1831)
• 15. February: Friedrich August wolf, German Altphilologe and antiquity scientist († 1824)
• 20. February: Johann Christian Reil, physician (Stadtphysikus) and professor in resounds and to Berlin († 1813)
• 22. February: Lecourbe, officer in various European armies († 1815)
• 2. March: Friedrich Haeffner, Swedish composer († 1833)
• 16. March: Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet († 1793)
• 19. April: August WilliamIffland, famous actor, theatre manager and dramatist († 1814)
• 27. April: Mary Wollstonecraft, English authoress and Frauenrechtlerin († 1797)
• 14. May: Alois I. (Liechtenstein), governing prince of Liechtenstein († 1805)
• 20. May: William Thornton, British-American architect and inventor († 1828)
• 21. May: Fouché, Joseph, duke of Otranto, convention member, police Minister under Napoleon († 1820).
• 24. May: William Friedrich Ernst Bach, German composer († 1845)
• 25. May: Franz Paul von Herbert, Kunstmäzen and Vertreter of the clearing-up († 1811)
• 28. May: William Pitt the younger one, British prime minister († 1806)
• 24. June: Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval, French Orientalist(† 1835)
• 10. July: Pierre Joseph Redouté, painter († 1840)
• 24. July: Viktor Emanuel I., King of Piemont Sardinien and duke of Savoyen († 1824)
• 9. August: Ernst Christoph light, German manufacturer andLocal politician († 1826)
• 9. August: Johann Christoph Friedrich of property Muths, German paedagogue and joint founder of doing gymnastics († 1839)
• 24. August: William Wilberforce, British parliamentarian and opponent of the slavery († 1833)
• 12. September: Maximilian Josef Montgelas, Minister under the later king Maximilian I. by Bavaria. († 1838)
• 19. September: William Kirby, English minister and Entomologe († 1850)
• 20. September: Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles, Politiker during thatFrench revolution († 1794)
• 26. September: Johann David Ludwig count Yorck von Wartenburg, since 1821 a Prussian field marshal
• 25. October: Sophia Dorothea Augusta Luisa of Württemberg, Zarin of Russia († 1828)
• 25. October: William Wyndham Grenville, British politician and prime minister († 1834)
• 26. October: Georges Danton, one the leader of the French revolution († 1794)
• 10. November: Friedrich Schiller, German poet, dramatist and historian († 1805)
• 27. November: Franz Krommer, Czech composer († 1831)
• 26. December: Johann George von Dillis, German painter († 1841)

died

• 27. January: Senesino, Italian Kastrat and successful opera singer in London(* 1690)
• 27. March: August Johann Rösel of rose yard, German natural scientist and miniature painter (* 1705)
• 14. April: George Friedrich trade, GermanBritish composer (* 1685)
• 12. June: William Collins, English poet. (* 1721)
• 20. June: Moritz Adolf of Saxonia Zeitz, bishop von Leitmeritz and cathedral gentleman in Cologne (* 1702)
• 27. July: Jetty RH Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (* 1698)
• 7. August: GeorgeWilliam Kirchmaier, philosopher, Rhetoriker, linguist (* 1673)
• 8. August: Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and singer (* 1701)
• 10. August: Ferdinand VI., Spanish king (* 1713)
• 24. August: Ewald Christian ofKleist, Prussian poet and officer (* 1715)
• 13. September: James wolf, British general (* 1727)
• 14. September: Louis Joseph de Montcalm, French general in the Frenchman and Indian war (* 1712)
• 13. October: Martin Schipani, German Uhrmachermeister (* 1693)
• 25. October: Johann Juncker, German physician (* 1679)