1759 Calendar

January 5, 1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.

January 11, 1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.

January 15, 1759 – The British Museum opens.

July 25, 1759 – French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.

August 1, 1759 – Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.

August 19, 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Year’s War between Britain and France.

September 13, 1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.

September 18, 1759 – The British capture Quebec City.

November 25, 1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.

December 31, 1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

January 31, 1759 – François Devienne, French composer (d. 1803)

February 20, 1759 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, founder of psychiatry (d. 1813)

March 22, 1759 – Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)

April 27, 1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and feminist (d. 1797)

June 21, 1759 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)

July 19, 1759 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)

September 19, 1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)

October 4, 1759 – Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)

October 20, 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (d. 1815)

November 10, 1759 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)