* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.

* 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman ( d. 1759 )

* 1727 – Louise Élisabeth of France ( d. 1759 )

* 1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist ( d. 1823 )

* 1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer ( b. 1685 )

* 1759 – Ferdinand VI of Spain ( b. 1713 )

In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

Robert Burns ( 1759 – 1796 )

** Charles VII ( 1735 – 1759 )

** Ferdinand IV ( 1759 – 1806 )

** Charles VII ( 1735 – 1759 )

** Ferdinand III ( 1759 – 1815 )

** Ferdinand VI ( 1746 – 1759 )

** Charles III ( 1759 – 1788 )

His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).

Didier Diderot ( 1685 – 1759 ), a painting by an unknown artist.

* Salons, critique d ' art ( 1759 – 1781 )

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer ( d. 1759 )

* 1741 – Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain ( d. 1759 )

* Erasmus Darwin II ( 1759 – 1799 )

* 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German / British Baroque composer ( d. 1759 )

* 1759 – Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist ( d. 1824 )

British forces seized remaining French control over Acadia in the coming months, with Île-Saint-Jean falling in 1759 to British forces on their way to Quebec City for the Siege of Quebec and ensuing Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

*, a 74-gun third rate launched 1758 ; run aground and lost 1759 at the Battle of Quiberon Bay.

In 1758, he took part in the major amphibious assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg from the French, after which he participated in the siege of Quebec City and then the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

The British HMS Sandwich ( 1759 ) | HMS Sandwich fires to the French flagship French ship Bucentaure ( 1803 ) | Bucentaure ( completely dismasted ) into battle off Battle of Trafalgar | Trafalgar.

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

The British HMS Sandwich ( 1759 ) | HMS Sandwich fires to the French flagship French ship Bucentaure ( 1803 ) | Bucentaure ( completely dismasted ) into battle off Battle of Trafalgar | Trafalgar.

The British HMS Sandwich ( 1759 ) | HMS Sandwich fires to the French flagship French ship Bucentaure ( 1803 ) | Bucentaure ( completely dismasted ) in the battle of Battle of Trafalgar | Trafalgar.

At sea naval defeats against British fleets at Lagos and Quiberon Bay in 1759 and a crippling blockade forced France to keep its ships in port.

The invasion failed both militarily and politically, as Pitt again planned significant campaigns against New France, and sent funds to Britain's ally on the mainland, Prussia, and the French Navy failed in the 1759 naval battles at Lagos and Quiberon Bay.

She served against the French from 1756 and participated in the Battle of Lagos ( 1759 ) before being sold in 1765.

* Lagos 1759

On 20 November 1759 he followed the French warships and during a gale he won a sufficient victory in the Battle of Quiberon Bay, when combined with Edward Boscawen's victory at Lagos, to remove the French invasion threat.

In 1759 he and Pitt organised Britain's defences against a planned French invasion which failed because of British naval victories at Lagos and Quiberon.

Two well-known naval battles took place off Lagos, reflecting its strategic location: in the Battle of Lagos ( 1693 ) a French flotilla defeated a combined Anglo-Dutch force, while in the Battle of Lagos ( 1759 ) a British force defeated a French force.

She was captured at the Battle of Lagos in 1759, and foundered in a hurricane in 1782.

* Lagos 1759

He went to the Mediterranean in 1759, and served as part of Admiral Sir Edward Boscawen's fleet at the Battle of Lagos.

* was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line captured from the French after the Battle of Lagos on 19th August, 1759 and sold in 1784.

* Lagos 1759, Quiberon Bay 1759, Belle Ile 1761

The naval Battle of Lagos between Britain and France took place over two days, on 18 and 19 August 1759, during the Seven Years ' War off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and is named after Lagos, Portugal.

de: Seeschlacht bei Lagos ( 1759 )

fr: Bataille de Lagos ( 1759 )

She was destroyed in Lagos in 1759.