* 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 )

* 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 )

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

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.

* 1712 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander ( d. 1759 )

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.

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.

* 1759 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor ( b. 1700 )

* 1700 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor ( d. 1759 )

* 1759 – Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader ( d. 1794 )

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

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.

Daniel Morgan later served as a ranger protecting the borderlands of Virginia against Indian raids, returning to Winchester in 1759.

Scotch-Irish Presbyterians began immigrating to the region in increasingly large numbers, though occasional violence persisted until 1759, when the French and Indian Wars ended in Maine.

It was later listed in the French territorial records in 1759 as being a town inhabited by 50 Shawnee Indian Warriors, and the name then known as Chalakagay.

Called the Saco Truck House or Saco Block House, the garrison was maintained throughout the French and Indian War until the fall of Quebec in 1759.

The French and Indian War, however, prevented settlement until after the 1759 Fall of Quebec.

" Britain gained control of Fort Niagara in 1759, during the French & Indian War, after a nineteen-day siege.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran ( February 28, 1712 – September 14, 1759 ) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years ' War ( whose North American theatre is called the French and Indian War in the United States ).

On 13 September 1759, the area was the scene of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the French and Indian War, which was itself part of the Seven Years ' War.

Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years War ), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon ; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara ; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via the St. Lawrence River.

During the pivotal year of 1759 ( see Seven Years ' War and French and Indian War ), he participated in the defence of the capital of New France, the fortified Quebec City.

Hostilities of the French and Indian Wars ceased with the 1759 Fall of Quebec.

* Battle of Quebec ( 1759 ), also called the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, successful capture of the city by the British in the Seven Years ' War or French and Indian War

Chester was officially founded in 1759 during the French and Indian War.

In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga's location did not appear to be as strategically important as it had been in the French and Indian War, when the French famously defended it against a much larger British force in the 1758 Battle of Carillon, and when the British captured it in 1759.

The fort played a significant part in the French and Indian War, and fell to the British in a nineteen day siege in July 1759, called the Battle of Fort Niagara.

He saw service in the French and Indian War under the command of Jeffrey Amherst at the 1758 siege of Louisbourg, and in 1759 under the command of James Wolfe at the Siege of Quebec.

The 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor confrontation at Fort Carillon ( later renamed Fort Ticonderoga ) on July 26 and 27, 1759, during the French and Indian War.

* 250th Anniversary Commemorations of 1759 in the French and Indian War

* John Forbes ( British Army officer ) ( 1707 – 1759 ), British General in the French and Indian War

* HMS Mohawk was a 16-gun snow, constructed in 1759, that participated in the Battle of the Thousand Islands, during the French and Indian War.

* Faiz Ali Khan ( Banganapalle ), ( 1686 – 1759 ), an Indian noble

The St. John River Campaign occurred during the French and Indian War when Colonel Robert Monckton led a force of 1150 British soldiers to destroy the Acadian settlements on the banks of the St. John River until they reached the largest village of Ste Anne ’ s Point ( present day Fredericton, New Brunswick ) in February 1759.