* 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 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.

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

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

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 )

The rule of the Spanish Bourbons continued under Ferdinand VI ( 1746 – 1759 ) and Charles III ( 1759 – 1788 ).

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

* December 2 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer ( d. 1759 )

* September 23 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain ( d. 1759 )

* Ferdinand VI of Spain ( 1713 – 1759 ), became king 1746

* Ferdinand IV of Naples ( 1751 – 1825 ), king in 1759, also known as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies

Following Charles ' accession to the Spanish throne in 1759 he was required, by the Treaty of Naples of 3 October 1759, to abdicate Naples and Sicily to his third son, Ferdinand, thus initiating the branch known as the Neapolitan Bourbons.

* Ferdinand VI ( 1746 – 1759 )

* Ferdinand IV of Naples ( 1751 – 1825, king of Naples from 1759, ruled as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies from 1816 )

Upon succeeding to the Spanish throne on 10 August 1759, Charles, a proponent of enlightened absolutism, on 6 October 1759 abdicated the Neapolitan and Sicilian thrones in favour of Ferdinand, his third surviving son, who became Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, or Ferdinand IV of Naples and III of Sicily.

Ferdinand VI ( Spanish: Fernando VI ; 23 September 1713 – 10 August 1759 ), called the Learned, was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death.

On 10 August 1759, Charles succeeded his elder brother, Ferdinand VI, as King Charles III of Spain.

Two Bourbon kings, Philip V ( who reigned from 1700 to 1746 ) and Ferdinand VI ( 1746 – 1759 ), as well as King Amadeus ( 1870 – 1873 ), are not buried in the monastery.

* King Charles III of Spain, who succeeded his half-brother Ferdinand VI in 1759

* Ferdinand VI of Spain ( 1713 – 1759 )

In Spain, they appeared to be safe, but Charles III of Spain ( 1759 – 88 ), aware of the drawn-out contentions in Bourbon France, decided on a more peremptory efficiency.

The Jesuits had been expelled from Brasil ( 1754 ), Portugal ( 1759 ), France ( 1764 ), Spain and its colonies ( 1767 ) and Parma ( 1768 ).

Charles III ( Spanish: Carlos III ; Italian: Carlo III ; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788 ) was the King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788.

In 1759 when Hidalgo was six, Charles III of Spain ascended the throne ; he soon sent out a visitor-general with the power to investigate and reform all parts of colonial government.

Galiani's political knowledge and social qualities brought him to the attention of King Charles of Naples and Sicily ( afterwards Charles III of Spain ) and his liberal minister Bernardo Tanucci, and in 1759 Galiani was appointed secretary to the Neapolitan embassy at Paris.

In September 1, 1759, King Carlos III of Spain issued a Royal Decree that ended the founding missions of Augustinians and transferred all Augustinian responsibilities in the settlements of Nueva Ecija to Franciscan Friars.

" Charles III, king of Spain from 1759 to 1788, tried to rescue his empire from decay through far-reaching reforms such as weakening the Church and its monasteries, promoting science and university research, facilitating trade and commerce, modernizing agriculture and avoiding wars.

One of his great-grandfathers, Pierre de Lesseps ( Bayonne, 2 January 1690 – Bayonne, 20 August 1759 ), son of Bertrand Lesseps ( 1649 – 1708 ) and wife ( m. 18 April 1675 ) Louise Fisson ( 1654 – 1690 ), was town clerk and at the same time secretary to Queen Anne of Neuberg, widow of Charles II of Spain, exiled to Bayonne after the accession of Philip V, and married on 7 January 1715 his great-grandmother Catherine Fourcade ( 2 June 1690 – 22 August 1760 ), by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom died in childhood: Dominique de Lesseps ( 1715 – 1794 ), Pierre de Lesseps ( 1716 –?

* The Pragmatic Sanction of Naples, issued October 6, 1759, by King Charles III of Spain, governed the succession to the thrones of Naples, Sicily, and Spain, and forbade the union of Spain and the Two Sicilies.

The power of the French fleet was broken, and would not recover before the war was over ; in the words of Alfred Thayer Mahan ( The Influence of Sea Power upon History ), " The battle of 20 November 1759 was the Trafalgar of this war, and [...] the English fleets were now free to act against the colonies of France, and later of Spain, on a grander scale than ever before ".

Daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma ( 1720-1765 ) ( brother of King Philip V of Spain ) and Princess Marie Louise Élisabeth of France ( 14 August 1727-6 December 1759 ) ( daughter of King Louis XV of France ).

When Charles of Naples became Charles III of Spain in 1759, Tanucci was made president of the council of regency instituted for the nine-year-old Ferdinand IV, who even when he reached his majority preferred to leave the government in Tanucci's capable hands, constantly overseen from Spain by Charles III.

In the end, he never slept a night at the Reggia, as he abdicated in 1759 to become King of Spain, and the project was carried to completion for his third son and successor, Ferdinand IV of Naples.

In 1759, he left to become King Charles III of Spain and was succeeded by his son Ferdinand, who was underage and so government was left to the regent Bernardo Tanucci.