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1759 Calendar

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•  January 5, 1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
•  January 15, 1759 – The British Museum opens.
•  May 1, 1759 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
•  June 27, 1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
•  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.

•  February 15, 1759 – Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist (d. 1824)
•  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)
•  August 24, 1759 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
•  September 19, 1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
•  September 23, 1759 – Clothilde of France, Queen of Piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)
•  October 20, 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (d. 1815)
•  October 26, 1759 – Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
•  November 10, 1759 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)