1759

Year 1759 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January – June



 * – marries.
 * – In, the first American life company is incorporated.
 * – The is executed following accusations of the attempted regicide of.
 * – The opens (after 6 years of development).
 * – – A  army defeats  at Brunswick.
 * –  – British Troops under  take.

July – December

 * – : In, British forces capture  from French, who subsequently abandon.
 * – : At the southern end of Lake Champlain, British forces capture  from French, and rename it.
 * – – Anglo–Hanoverian forces under  defeat the French army of the, but due to the disobedience of the English cavalry commander , the French are able to withdraw unmolested.
 * – dies and is succeeded by his half–brother .  Charles resigns the thrones of Naples and Sicily to his third son,.
 * – –  is rebuffed in bloody assaults on the combined Austro–Russian army of  and .  This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats.
 * – – The British fleet of  defeats a French force under Commodore de la Clue off the Portuguese coast.
 * – – An inconclusive naval battle is fought off the coast of  between the  Admiral d'Aché and the  under . The French forces are badly damaged and returned home, never to return.
 * – :  falls to British forces following 's victory in the  just outside the city. Both the French Commander (the ) and the British General  are fatally wounded.
 * – – The English fleet of  defeats a French fleet under  near the coast of .  This is the decisive naval engagement of the  – after this, the French are no longer able to field a significant fleet.
 * – – the Austrian army of Marshal von Daun cuts off and forces the surrender of a Prussian force under.
 * – The (now called ""), America's oldest nonsectarian day school, is founded.

Undated

 * publishes Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures.
 * 's  is published.
 * The town of (modern ) is founded in.
 * The Famous Brewery founded in ,
 * Churton Town, the, county seat laid out in , is renamed Childsburgh in honor of North Carolina attorney general Thomas Child.  It is later renamed  in.
 * Fire destroys 250 houses in.

Births

 * –, Scottish poet (d. )
 * –, German philologist and archaeologist (d. )
 * –, French general (d. )
 * –, author (d. )
 * –, American architect (d. )
 * –, statesman and (d. )
 * –, American statesman and financier (d. )
 * –, British abolitionist (d. )
 * –, English entomologist (d. )
 * –, empress of (died , )
 * –, (d. )
 * –, French Revolutionary leader (d. )
 * –, German writer (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * –, regent of Friesland (born )
 * –, British general (born )
 * – (born )
 * –, German composer (born )
 * –, French sculptor (born )
 * –, French mathematician (born )
 * –, English philologist (born )
 * –, German composer (born )
 * – King (born )
 * –, German poet (born )
 * –, Croatian explorer (b. )
 * –, British general (born )
 * –, French general (born )
 * –, British military officer (born )
 * –, English minister (born )
 * –, Swiss mathematician (born )
 * date unknown – of the


 * See also .